Greek 404 Survey

Purpose of the course: to read more Greek.

Mondays, Wednesdays 2:30-3:45 p.m.

Weeks I-V

January 17-February 14 Homer, Iliad Book vi lines 237-529
February 14 -- test

Weeks VI - VIII

February 19-21 Sappho et al.

February 26-28 Euripides, Alcestis 136-212 or Medea 214-270 or PW

March 5-7 Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1-148

March 12-14 Selections from Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Epigraphica

Spring Break

Weeks IX - XV

March 26-May 9 Sophocles, Antigone
There will be one test.

Week XVI Wednesday 16 May 3:30-5:30 final examination time for presentations

Project to be presented at the final date: choose a passage (of about 70-100 lines) from Greek literature that has to do with one of the themes of the course; make a commentary and present the passage to the class, in Greek, with comments. If you choose, your passage will be added to the Reader in progress.

1. Strong and Righteous Women of Tragedy and Comedy -- Examples:

Clytemnestra in Agamemnon

Deianeira in Trachinian Women

Jocasta (in Phoenissae)
Electra in Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides
Helen

2. Real Women -- Examples:

Isaeus 8 -- how to tell if a woman exists
Xenophon -- selection from Oeconomicus

Aspasia (in Plutarch’s Life of Pericles)

3. Women’s voices -- Examples

Sappho
Praxilla and others
Women in papyri (letter writers, business women)

4. Men writing about women

Hesiod
Semonides, etc.