LITERATURE HUMANITIES: SYLLABUS 2017-18 FALL 2017 CC1001

Sept. 5 (TWR only) Homer, Iliad (1st and 2nd day) 11 Homer, Iliad (3rd and 4th day) 18 Sappho, Lyrics (1 day)

Homer, Odyssey (1st day) 25 Homer, Odyssey (2nd and 3rd day)

Oct. 2 Genesis, in the New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (choice of other Hebrew Scriptures) (1st and 2nd day)

9 Herodotus, The Histories: Bk. 1.1-140 (Croesus; Gyges; Solon; Cyrus, p. 3-64 [61 pp.]; Bk. 2.35-45, 2.112-20 (Egyptian customs, Helen in Egypt, p. 108-14; p. 137-41 [10 pp.]); Bk. 3.1-38 (Custom, p. 169-186 [18 pp.]); Bk. 7.1-58, 7.100-5, 7.201-39 (Xerxes, p. 404-28; p. 438-41 [27 pp.]); (Thermopylae, p. 475-488 [14 pp.]) [130 pp. total] (1st and 2nd day)

16 Aeschylus, Oresteia (1st and 2nd day) 23 Midterm

Euripides, Bacchae (1st day) 30 Euripides, Bacchae (choice of another Greek play) (2nd and 3rd day) Nov. 6 (W/R only) Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk 1.1-55, 1.139-46 (Introduction; the

dispute over Epidamnus and then over Corcyra, p. 35-67, p. 118-23 [37 pp.]); Bk 2.34-65 (Pericles’ funeral speech; the plague at Athens; Pericles’s last speech, p. 143-64 [21 pp.]); Bk 3.36-50, 3.82-85 (the Mytilenian debate; reflection on/reverberations of the civil war in Corcyra, pp. 212-23, 242-45 [14 pp.]); Bk 5.84-116 (Melian Dialogue, p. 400-8 [8 pp.]); Bk 6.1-32, 60-61, 89-93 (Launching of Sicilian Expedition; recall of Alcibiades; Alcibiades in Sparta, p. 409-29, p. 447-9, p. 466-70 [26 pp.]); Bk 7.72-87 (Destruction of the Athenian Expedition p. 525-537 [12 pp.]) [118 pp. total] (1st day)

13 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (2nd day)

Plato, Symposium (1st day) 20 (M/T only) Plato, Symposium (2nd day) Virgil, Aeneid (1st day)

27 Virgil, Aeneid (2nd and 3rd day) Dec. 4 Ovid, Heroides: Letter 1 (Penelope to Ulysses), Letter 3 (Briseis to Achilles), Letter 4 (Phaedra to Hippolytus), Letter 7 (Dido to Aeneas), Letter 12 (Medea to Jason), Letter 15 (Sappho to Phaon) (1st and 2nd day) 11 (M only) Last day of class/ Review for M/W sections Texts: Homer, Iliad (Chicago, tr. Lattimore)

Sappho, If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho (Vintage, tr. Carson) Homer, Odyssey (Harper, tr. Lattimore) New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4th ed.) Herodotus, The Histories (Oxford, tr. Waterfield) Aeschylus, Oresteia (Aeschylus II, Chicago, tr. Lattimore) Euripides, Bacchae (Euripides V, Chicago tr. Arrowsmith) Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin, tr. Warner) Plato, Symposium (Hackett, tr. Nehamas, Woodruff) Virgil, Aeneid (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum) Ovid, Heroides (Penguin, tr. Isbell)

LITERATURE HUMANITIES: SYLLABUS 2017-18

SPRING 2018 CC1002 Jan. 16 (T/W/R only) Luke and John, in the New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (1st and 2nd day) 22 Augustine, Confessions (1st and 2nd day) 29 Dante, Inferno (1st and 2nd day) Feb. 5 Dante, Inferno (3rd day)

Boccaccio, Decameron, Prologue (p. 1-3 [3 pp.]); First Day: Introduction and Story 1 (Ser Cepperello, p. 4-37 [33 pp.]); Third Day: Stories 1 and 10 (Masetto of Lamporecchio and the nuns; Alibech and Rustico, p. 192-199 [7 pp.]; p. 274-9 [5 pp.]); Fourth Day: Introduction and Stories 1and 2 (Guiscardo and Ghismonda; the Angel Gabriel, p. 284-312 [28 pp.]); Sixth Day: Entire (including Intro and Conclusion, p. 444-483 [39 pp.]); Tenth Day: Story 10 and Conclusion (Patient Griselda, p. 783-97 [14 pp.]); Author's Epilogue (p. 798-802 [5 pp.]) [134 pp. total] (1st day)

12 Boccaccio, The Decameron (2nd day)

Montaigne, Essays: To the Reader, p. 23; “On Idleness,” 26-28; “On the Power of the Imagination,” 36-48; “On Cannibals,” 105-119; “On Experience,” 343-406 [95 pp. total] (1day)

19 Shakespeare, King Lear (1st and 2nd day) 26 Cervantes, Don Quixote; Part I: Prologue, ch.1-32 (p. 3-272 [269 pp.]); 47-52 (p. 405-449 [44

pp.]); Part II: To the Count of Lemos, Prologue, ch. 1-3 (p. 453-480 [27 pp.]); 8-10 (Dulcinea, p. 502-21 [19 pp.]); ch. 30 (Duke and Duchess, p. 653-657 [5 pp.]); 45 (Sancho takes possession of his Insula, p. 746-752 [6 pp.]); 72-74 (Sancho and Don Quixote arrive back home, p. 924-940 [16 pp.]) [386 pp. total] (1st and 2nd day)

Mar. 5 Cervantes, Don Quixote (3rd day) Midterm

12 SPRING BREAK

19 Milton, Paradise Lost (1st and 2nd day) 26 Milton, Paradise Lost (3rd day)

Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1st day) Apr. 2 Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2nd day)

Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1st day)

9 Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (2nd and 3rd day)

16 Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1st and 2nd day)

23 Morrison, Song of Solomon (1st and 2nd day) 30 (M only) Last day of class/Review for M/W sections Texts: New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4th ed.)

Augustine, Confessions (Oxford, tr. Chadwick) Dante, Inferno (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum) Boccaccio, The Decameron (Penguin, tr. McWilliam, 2nd ed.) Montaigne, Essays (Penguin, tr. Cohen) Shakespeare, King Lear (Penguin, ed. Orgel) Cervantes, Don Quixote (Harper Collins, tr. Grossman) Milton, Paradise Lost (Oxford) Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Oxford) Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (Vintage, trs. Volokhonsky and Pevear) Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Morrison, Song of Solomon (Vintage)