LITERATURE HUMANITIES: SYLLABUS 2015-16
FALL 2015 C1001x
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
8 (T/W/R only)
Homer, Iliad (1st and 2nd day)
14
Homer, Iliad (3rd and 4th day)
21
Sappho, Lyrics
Homer, Odyssey (1st day)
28
Homer, Odyssey (2nd and 3rd day)
5
Genesis (choice of other Hebrew Scriptures) (1st and 2nd day)
12
Herodotus, The Histories: Bk 1.1-140 (Croesus; Gyges; Solon; Cyrus, p. 3-64 [61 pp.]; Bk 2.3545, 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)
19
Aeschylus, Oresteia (1st and 2nd day)
26
Midterm
Euripides, Bacchae (1st day)
2 (W/R only)
Euripides, Bacchae (2nd day)
9
Euripides, Bacchae (choice of aother Greek play) (3rd day)
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. 21223, 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. 4479, p. 466-70 [26 pp.]); Bk 7.72-87 (Destruction of the Athenian Expedition p. 525-537 [12 pp.])
[118 pp. total] (1st and 2nd day)
16
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (3rd day)
Plato, Symposium (1st day)
23 (W/T/W only) Plato, Symposium (2nd day)
Virgil, Aeneid (1st day)
Dec.
Texts:
30
Virgil, Aeneid (2nd and 3rd day)
7
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)
14 (M only)
Last day of class/Review for M/W sections
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, trs. Nehemas, Woodruff)
Virgil, Aeneid (Bantam, tr., Mandelbaum)
Ovid, Heroides (Penguin, tr. Harold Isbell)
LITERATURE HUMANITIES: SYLLABUS 2015-16
SPRING 2016 C1002x
Jan.
19 (T/W/R only) Luke and John (1st and 2nd day)
25
Augustine, Confessions (1st and 2nd day)
1
Dante, Inferno (1st and 2nd day)
8
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)
15
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)
22
Shakespeare, King Lear (1st and 2nd day)
29
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)
7
Cervantes, Don Quixote (3rd day)
Midterm
14
SPRING BREAK
21
Milton, Paradise Lost (1st and 2nd day)
28
Milton, Paradise Lost (3rd day)
Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1st day)
4
Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2nd day)
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1st day)
11
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (2nd and 3rd day)
18
Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1st and 2nd day)
25
Morrison, Song of Solomon (1st and 2nd day)
May
2 (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. Holland)
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)
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.