Make your life easier: look up unfamilar references to heroes, gods/goddesses, and characters using one of the mythology links at http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/mythology.html, or go to the Perseus site at http://perseus.tufts.edu

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!!!)	Due Dates
Week 1	Classical Literature Greek Epic
8/21	Intro to Course and Period Syllabus Study  materials: General (Background to Greek and Roman Mythology)  (Background to Trojan War) (Summary of Iliad)   Film: The Greeks (in class) Greeks Film Handout
8/23	The Greeks (film)
Week 2	Greek Epic
8/28**	The Iliad  (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 127-182) Study Materials Iliad/Odyssey Terms Iliad Handout Iliad Epic Similes handout Optional Study Materials Play the Iliad Game Watch The Trojan War Just for Fun What have we learned from the Iliad?	Sign up for presentation
8/30	The Iliad  (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 182-223)
Week 3	Greek Epic
9/4	The Iliad  (Excerpts and summaries in Literature of the Western World, pp. 223-249-end	Come prepared to play Iliad Jeopardy (worth 100 points)
9/6	The Odyssey Bks 1-12 (273-433) Study Materials Odyssey Worksheet, Books 1-12 What did Greek audiences expect when Tiresias appeared as a character? (He appears in The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Oedipus Tyrannos, and Antigone this term) Optional Study Materials Play the Odyssey Game Watch The Odyssey
Week 4	Greek Epic
9/11***	The Odyssey Bks 13-18 (433-519) Study Materials Study Questions (Bks 13-end)	Presentation: Norse Saga--Hrafnkel, Prince of Frey Irish Epic--The Sons of Uisliu
9/13	The Odyssey Bks 19-24 (519-594)	Come prepared to play Odyssey Jeopardy (worth 100 points)
Week 5	Roman Epic
9/18	Virgil, Aeneid (Books 1-2) Study Materials Aeneid synopsis Study questions	Presentation: Livy Marcus Aurelius Herodotus Ovid--Heroides Ovid--Metamorphoses
9/20	Virgil, Aeneid (Books 3-4)
Week 6	Greek Tragedy
9/25	Study Materials Greek Theatre Powerpoint Greek Lit & Art 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 reading it will assist you in understanding the film excerpts we will watch) Take-home quiz: Greek Theatre Optional Study Materials Watch all of Agamemnon and The Eumenides	Presentations: Marilyn Katz Essay on Greek Society/Culture: The Body of Evidence The Body Politic Trading Places Athens on Display Demographics
9/27	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? Optional Study Materials Watch all of Oedipus Tyrannos	Greek Theatre Quiz
Week 7	Greek Tragedy: Sophocles
10/2	Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos/Begin Antigone (791-839) Study  materials: Antigone (Study Questions)  (Background: Family and Women, Link 1 and Link 2)  (Background: Funerary practices)  Play the Antigone Game Optional Study Materials Watch all of Antigone
10/4	Sophocles, Antigone (continued)	Presentations: Funerary Practices
Week 8	Greek Tragedy: Euripides
10/9	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 Optional Study Materials Play the Medea Game	Presentations: Plato Apology Aristotle Golden Mean
10/11	Euripides, Medea(cont)
Week 9	Greek Comedy
10/16	Fall Break
10/18	Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Lysistrata Study Materials (Background to Aristophanes) Lysistrata Study Questions Optional Study Materials Watch all of Lysistrata	Presentations: Thucydides
Week 10	Classical Lyric Poetry
10/23	Pastoral: Theocritus Idyll 1 (pp 1153-1158) Lyric: Sappho 30, 34, 39, 40, 43 (pp1141-1147); Catullus 51, 3, 5, 11 (pp. 1160-1165) Study Materials Analyzing Poetry Lyric Poetry Terms
10/25	Theocritus, Sappho, Catullus (continued)	Midterm Quotations Due (1 per work) emailed to instructor at rkdrury@nku.edu by Sunday!!!
Week 11	Midterm
10/30****	Midterm Review
11/1	Midterm (no notes, books, headsets, or phones)
Week 12	Medieval Epic/Allegory
11/6	Dante, The Divine Comedy  1398-1432 (Note: I won't hold you responsible for understanding the intricacies of Florentine politics) Study Materials Medieval/Renaissance World View Terms for Dante's Commedia Inferno Handouts (G) (Sign up for canto drawing--note that this assignment is worth 100 points and that there is no makeup!!!) Optional Study Materials Take the "Dante's Inferno Test" Prepaire for Inferno Jeopardy by completing this crossword puzzle.	Presentations: Copernicus
11/8	Dante, The Divine Comedy  1432-1505
Week 13	Medieval Epic/Allegory
11/13	Dante, The Divine Comedy  1506-end	Canto Drawing (bring to class today)
11/15	Come prepared to play Inferno Jeopardy (worth 100 points!)
Week 14	Late Medieval Lyric
11/20	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 Study Materials Petrarch Study Questions Petrarch metaphors handout	Presentations: Andreas Capellanus Castiglione Marie de France (1332-1362)
11/22	Thanksgiving
Week 15	Late Medieval Lyric
11/27	Petrarch (continued)
11/29	Boccaccio,The Decameron (1878-1915) Study Materials Study Questions Optional Study Materials Decameron Web	Presentations: Goodman of Paris Aesop 1001 Nights
Week 16	Renaissance Humanism
12/4	Renaissance Humanism Presentations	Presentations: Erasmus Mirandola Martin Luther Bacon Aquinas Machiavelli Email a list of 1 quotation from each work studied since the midterm TODAY!
12/6	Review for final exam
Finals Week	ENG 206-01: Final Exam--Thursday, Dec 13, 10:10-12:10 am Midterm (no notes, books, headsets, or phones)	Final Quotations: TBS

*This schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.  Unless notified specifically of a schedule change, you are responsible for reading what is on the schedule for a given class, except for materials clearly marked "Optional."
**8/27 Last day to register or enter a course; last day to withdraw with a 100% refund. Last day to change grading option.
***9/10 Last day to drop a course without a grade appearing on student's permanent record; last day to drop a course with 50% refund.
****10/29 Last day to drop a full term course with a grade of W.

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