English 206-1--World Literature--Fall 2005 Schedule

Date	Reading Schedule & Class Activities (Note: Students are responsible for both primary and background materials in this column, including presentations by other students. If something isn't clear--ASK!!!) Note: (G) means graded for everyone.	Due Dates
Week 1	*Classical Literature* *Greek Epic*
8/22	Intro to Course and Period Syllabus Study materials: General (Background to Greek and Roman Mythology) (Backgroundto Trojan War) (Summary of Iliad) (Backgroundto Trojan War) (Summary of Iliad) Film: The Odyssey Odyssey Film Handout
8/24	The Odyssey (film)
8/26	The Odyssey (film)
Week 2	*Greek Epic*
8/29**	The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 127-182) Iliad/Odyssey Terms Iliad Handout #1 (revised) Iliad Handout #2 (revised) Iliad Epic Similes handout Optional Study Tools Play the Iliad Game	Sign up for presentation View Presentation Schedule (will be activated later in term)
8/31	The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 182-223)
9/1	The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 223-249)
Week 3	Greek Epic
9/5	Labor Day
9/7	The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 249-end	Come prepared to play Iliad Jeopardy
9/9	The Odyssey Bks 1-3 (273-308) Odyssey Worksheet, Books 1-12 What did Greek audiences expect whenTiresias appeared as a character? Optional Study Tools Play the Odyssey Game
Week 4	*Greek Epic*
9/12***	The Odyssey Bks 4-12 (309-433)
9/14	The Odyssey Bks 13-18 (433-519) Study Questions (Bks 13-end) Odyssey Women
9/16	The Odyssey Bks 19-24 (519-594)	Come prepared to play Odyssey Jeopardy (G)
Week 5	*Roman Epic*
9/19	Virgil, Aeneid (967-1025) (Aeneid synopsis) (Study questions)	Presentation: Livy/M. Thompson Marcus Aurelius/A. Schreiner
9/21	Virgil, Aeneid (1025-1065)	Presentation: Herodotus/A. Black Ovid--Heroides (Paris to Helen/Brian Coyle; Helen to Paris/sara Renauer)
9/23	Virgil, Aeneid (1065-1079)	Come prepared to play Aeneid Jeopardy (G)
Week 6	*Greek Tragedy*
9/26	Greek Theatre Powerpoint Greek Lit & Art Take-home quiz: Greek Theatre	Presentations: Marilyn Katz Essay on Greek Society/Culture: The Body of Evidence (T. Moeller) & The Body Politic (M. Cruey); Trading Places (J. Bubach); Athens on Display/Chris Murphy; Demographics (J. Sowards)
9/28	Intro to Greek Theatre Notes on Aristotle's Poetics Family trees: House of Atreus, House of Laios Aeschylus, Oresteia (You are not required to read the Oresteia, but if you have time, reading what is in your book will help you as you view the film excerpts.	Greek Theatre Quiz
9/30	*Greek Tragedy: Sophocles* Oedipus Tyrannos (743-791) Study materials: Sophocles (search on Sophocles) Oedipus the King (Study Questions) Oedipus Study Questions Play the Oedipus Game About the Sphinx What did Greek audiences think when Tiresias came on stage? For an excellent overview of the polis and of the roles of men, women, children, and metics in it, see this excellent essay by Marily Katz.
Week 7	*Greek Tragedy: Sophocles*
10/3	Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos (continued)
10/5	Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos(continued)
10/7	Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos(complete) Sophocles, Antigone (begin)
Week 8	*Greek Tragedy: Sophocles*
10/10	Sophocles, Antigone (791-839) Study materials: Antigone (Study Questions) (Background: Family and Women, Link 1 and Link 2) (Background: Funerary practices) Play the Antigone Game	Funerary Practices/J. Deitz
10/12	Sophocles, Antigone (cont)
10/14	Sophocles, Antigone (cont)
Week 9	Greek Tragedy: Euripides
10/17	Fall Break
10/19	Euripides, Medea (839-877) (You are not required to read Medea, but if you have time, reading what is in your book will help you as you view the film) Study materials: (Background to Euripides) (Background to Medea) Apollodorus on Medea Medea Film Worksheet Play the Medea Game	Presentations: Plato Apology/S. Tarter & J. Heizer Aristotle Golden Mean/D. Tobin
10/21	Euripides, Medea (cont)
Week 10	*Greek Comedy*
10/24	Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Background to Aristophanes) Lysistrata Study Questions Lysistrata Film & Text comparison (in-class assignment)	Presentations: Thucydides/N. Howell
10/26	Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata
10/28	Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata	Lysistrata Film & Text comparison (in-class assignment) (G)
Week 11	*Classical Lyric Poetry*
10/31****	Pastoral: Theocritus Idyll 1 (pp 1153-1158) Classical Poetry: Sappho 30, 34, 39, 40, 43 (pp1141-1147); Catullus 51, 3, 5, 11 (pp. 1160-1165) Analyzing Poetry Lyric Poetry Terms	Midterm Quotations Due (1 per work) emailed to instructor at rkdrury@nku.edu TODAY!
11/2	Theocritus, Sappho, Catullus (continued)	Presentations: Horace--Ode 1.5/E. Banks
11/4	Midterm review	Midterm (due 11/14/05)
Week 12	*Medieval Epic/Allegory*
11/7	Dante, The Divine Comedy 1398-1432 (Note: I won't hold you responsible for understanding the intricacies of Florentine politics) Medieval/Renaissance World View Terms for Dante's Commedia Inferno Handouts (G) (Sign up for canto drawing) Optional Study Tools: Take the "Dante's Inferno Test"	Presentations: Copernicus/P. Counts
11/9	Dante, The Divine Comedy 1432-1474
11/11	Dante, The Divine Comedy 1474-1505	Canto Drawing (bring to class today)
Week 13	*Medieval/Renaissance Prose Narrative/Lyric*
11/14	Dante, The Divine Comedy 1506-end	Come prepared to play Inferno Jeopardy
11/16	Medieval Prose Narrative Ireland: Exile of the sons of Uislu (from the Cattle Raid of Cooley) pp. 1304-1311 (Epic) Iceland: Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey (1314-1331) Marie de France, Lais & Fables (1332-1362)	Presentations: Aesop/C. Sigman, 1001 Nights/R. Scheller
11/18	Analyzing Poetry Petrarch, Rhymes 1865-1878 Petrarchan poetry 2209-2264 (read at least one poem of your choice by each poet EXCEPT Spenser and Shakespeare Presentations: Andreas Capellanus Petrarch Study Questions Petrarch metaphors handout
Week 14	*Medieval/Renaissance Prose Narrative/Lyric*
11/21	Boccaccio,The Decameron (1878-1915) Decameron Web Study Questions Machiavelli (2282-2288)	Presentations: Goodman of Paris/T. Landis Montaigne-Of Cannibals/M. Ping
11/23	No Classes--University Open
11/25	Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15	Renaissance/17th century Epic
11/28	Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 (2099-2116) PL Study Questions	Presentations: Gilgamesh I & XI/T. McLaren OT 68-76/D. Carman Ovid, Metamorphoses 1119-1127/T. Snowden
11/30	Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 2-3 (2116-2137)	Presentations: Mirandola/D. Porter Erasmus/F. Benson Castiglione/S. Gillespie
12/2	Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4-8 (2137-2156)
Week 16	Renaissance/17th century Epic
12/5	Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9 (2156-2185)	Presentations: Martin Luther/J. Townsend Bacon/A. Stadtmiller Aquinas/L. Foster
12/7	Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 10-12 (2185-end)	Email a list of 1 quotation from each work studied since the midterm TODAY!
12/9	Review for final exam	Quotations for Final Exam
Finals Week	Final Exam--Monday, Dec 12, 1-3 pm (G)

Date

Reading Schedule & Class Activities (Note: Students are responsible for both primary and background materials in this column, including presentations by other students. If something isn't clear--ASK!!!) Note: (G) means graded for everyone.

Due Dates

Week 1

Classical Literature
Greek Epic

8/22

Intro to Course and Period
Syllabus
Study materials:

General

(Background to Greek and Roman Mythology)

(Backgroundto Trojan War)
(Summary of Iliad)

Film: The Odyssey
Odyssey Film Handout

8/24

The Odyssey (film)

8/26

The Odyssey (film)

Week 2

Greek Epic

8/29**

The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 127-182)

Iliad/Odyssey Terms

Iliad Handout #1 (revised)
Iliad Handout #2 (revised)

Iliad Epic Similes handout

Optional Study Tools
Play the Iliad Game

View Presentation Schedule (will be activated later in term)

8/31

The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 182-223)

9/1

The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 223-249)

Week 3

Greek Epic

9/5

Labor Day

9/7

The Iliad (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 249-end

Come prepared to play Iliad Jeopardy

9/9

The Odyssey Bks 1-3 (273-308)

Odyssey Worksheet, Books 1-12

What did Greek audiences expect whenTiresias appeared as a character?

Optional Study Tools
Play the Odyssey Game

Week 4

Greek Epic

9/12***

The Odyssey Bks 4-12 (309-433)

9/14

The Odyssey Bks 13-18 (433-519)

Study Questions (Bks 13-end)
Odyssey Women

9/16

The Odyssey Bks 19-24 (519-594)

Come prepared to play Odyssey Jeopardy (G)

Week 5

Roman Epic

9/19

Virgil, Aeneid (967-1025)

(Aeneid synopsis)
(Study questions)

Presentation:
Livy/M. Thompson
Marcus Aurelius/A. Schreiner

9/21

Virgil, Aeneid (1025-1065)

Presentation:
Herodotus/A. Black
Ovid--Heroides (Paris to Helen/Brian Coyle; Helen to Paris/sara Renauer)

9/23

Virgil, Aeneid (1065-1079)

Come prepared to play Aeneid Jeopardy (G)

Week 6

Greek Tragedy

9/26

Greek Theatre Powerpoint

Greek Lit & Art

Take-home quiz: Greek Theatre

Presentations: Marilyn Katz Essay on Greek Society/Culture: The Body of Evidence (T. Moeller) & The Body Politic (M. Cruey); Trading Places (J. Bubach); Athens on Display/Chris Murphy; Demographics (J. Sowards)

9/28

Intro to Greek Theatre

Notes on Aristotle's Poetics

Family trees: House of Atreus, House of Laios

Aeschylus, Oresteia (You are not required to read the Oresteia, but if you have time, reading what is in your book will help you as you view the film excerpts.

Greek Theatre Quiz

9/30

Greek Tragedy: Sophocles

Oedipus Tyrannos (743-791)

Study materials:

Sophocles (search on Sophocles)
Oedipus the King (Study Questions)
Oedipus Study Questions
Play the Oedipus Game
About the Sphinx
What did Greek audiences think when Tiresias came on stage?
For an excellent overview of the polis and of the roles of men, women, children, and metics in it, see this excellent essay by Marily Katz.

Week 7

Greek Tragedy: Sophocles

10/3

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos (continued)

10/5

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos(continued)

10/7

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos(complete)

Sophocles, Antigone (begin)

Week 8

Greek Tragedy: Sophocles

10/10

Sophocles, Antigone (791-839)
Study materials:

Antigone (Study Questions)
(Background: Family and Women, Link 1 and Link 2)
(Background: Funerary practices)
Play the Antigone Game

Funerary Practices/J. Deitz

10/12

Sophocles, Antigone (cont)

10/14

Sophocles, Antigone (cont)

Week 9

Greek Tragedy: Euripides

10/17

Fall Break

10/19

Euripides, Medea (839-877) (You are not required to read Medea, but if you have time, reading what is in your book will help you as you view the film)

Study materials:

(Background to Euripides)
(Background to Medea)
Apollodorus on Medea
Medea Film Worksheet
Play the Medea Game

Presentations:
Plato Apology/S. Tarter & J. Heizer
Aristotle Golden Mean/D. Tobin

10/21

Euripides, Medea (cont)

Week 10

Greek Comedy

10/24

Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata
(Background to Aristophanes)

Lysistrata Study Questions

Lysistrata Film & Text comparison (in-class assignment)

Presentations: Thucydides/N. Howell

10/26

Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata

10/28

Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Lysistrata Film & Text comparison (in-class assignment) (G)

Week 11

Classical Lyric Poetry

10/31****

Pastoral:
Theocritus Idyll 1 (pp 1153-1158)

Classical Poetry: Sappho 30, 34, 39, 40, 43 (pp1141-1147); Catullus 51, 3, 5, 11 (pp. 1160-1165)

Analyzing Poetry

Lyric Poetry Terms

Midterm Quotations Due (1 per work) emailed to instructor at rkdrury@nku.edu TODAY!

11/2

Theocritus, Sappho, Catullus (continued)

Presentations:
Horace--Ode 1.5/E. Banks

11/4

Midterm review

Midterm (due 11/14/05)

Week 12

Medieval Epic/Allegory

11/7

Dante, The Divine Comedy 1398-1432 (Note: I won't hold you responsible for understanding the intricacies of Florentine politics)

Medieval/Renaissance World View

Terms for Dante's Commedia
Inferno Handouts (G)
(Sign up for canto drawing)

Optional Study Tools:
Take the "Dante's Inferno Test"

Presentations: Copernicus/P. Counts

11/9

Dante, The Divine Comedy 1432-1474

11/11

Dante, The Divine Comedy 1474-1505

Canto Drawing (bring to class today)

Week 13

Medieval/Renaissance Prose Narrative/Lyric

11/14

Dante, The Divine Comedy 1506-end

Come prepared to play Inferno Jeopardy

11/16

Medieval Prose Narrative

Ireland: Exile of the sons of Uislu (from the Cattle Raid of Cooley) pp. 1304-1311 (Epic)
Iceland: Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey (1314-1331)

Marie de France, Lais & Fables (1332-1362)

Presentations: Aesop/C. Sigman, 1001 Nights/R. Scheller

11/18

Analyzing Poetry
Petrarch, Rhymes 1865-1878
Petrarchan poetry 2209-2264 (read at least one poem of your choice by each poet EXCEPT Spenser and Shakespeare

Presentations: Andreas Capellanus

Petrarch Study Questions
Petrarch metaphors handout

Week 14

Medieval/Renaissance Prose Narrative/Lyric

11/21

Boccaccio,The Decameron (1878-1915)

Decameron Web

Study Questions

Machiavelli (2282-2288)

Presentations:
Goodman of Paris/T. Landis

Montaigne-Of Cannibals/M. Ping

11/23

No Classes--University Open

11/25

Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 15

Renaissance/17th century Epic

11/28

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 (2099-2116)

PL Study Questions

Presentations:
Gilgamesh I & XI/T. McLaren
OT 68-76/D. Carman
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1119-1127/T. Snowden

11/30

Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 2-3 (2116-2137)

Presentations:
Mirandola/D. Porter
Erasmus/F. Benson
Castiglione/S. Gillespie

12/2

Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4-8 (2137-2156)

Week 16

Renaissance/17th century Epic

12/5

Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9 (2156-2185)

Presentations:
Martin Luther/J. Townsend
Bacon/A. Stadtmiller
Aquinas/L. Foster

12/7

Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 10-12 (2185-end)

Email a list of 1 quotation from each work studied since the midterm TODAY!

12/9

Review for final exam

Quotations for Final Exam

Finals Week

Final Exam--Monday, Dec 12, 1-3 pm (G)