Block 1 September Classical Greece
Week 1 (intro, Homer
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Class will be about:
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Read for tomorrow:
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Monday Sept. 5: opening convocation |
introduction: Greeks/Hellenes: a nation, ethnos,
language, culture. . . Greek (Phoenician) alphabet: chant some Homeric
lines. Start a timeline. Introduce e-journaling |
Browning Prologue (and initial photo-essay) pp. 7-38
(and get started on Homer) |
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Tues. 6 |
Landscape, earth culture, basic rhythm. Introduce
research. |
Homer Iliad books 1-8;e-journal |
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Wed. 7 |
Heroic issues: honor (geras), status (gods,
kings, tis), family (Hector’s; Diomedes/Glaukos’s) |
Homer Iliad books 9-16 Browning Part I, Ch. 1 “Age of Heroes” plus
photo-essay on Minoan/Mycenaean world, pp. 40-62 |
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Thursday 8 |
Achilles and Patroklos (Meleagros and Kleopatra);
friends, lovers; glory (kleos) and home nostos. Death:
Sarpedon and Patroklos |
Homer Iliad books 17-24 Browning Part III, Ch. 4 (J. M. Cook on Classical
Art) and photo-essay on geometric-black-red figure, pp. 116-150; e-journal
on Homer, esp. in the visual-arts context |
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Friday 9 |
War and Peace on the Shield; Hektor’s death;
Funeral/athletics; Funeral/lament (origin of Epic in the end of the
Iliad?) |
Friday and over the weekend: Aeschylus Agamemnon and
a short paper expanded from the e-journal |