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CLASSICS 121: BOOKS & READING SCHEDULE FOR THE COURSE |
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Here are the Required Texts and the Reading Schedule for Classics 121.
REQUIREDRichard Buxton The Complete World of Greek Mythology Thames & Hudson CW RECOMMENDED Notes On Various Editions, Translations etc.: Note 1: if you have translations by other translators for any of the primary Greek authorswhich you favor, it is fine to go ahead and use them. Just remember that page references used in handouts, class and section, and passages cited in exams, will be as in the versions above. Note 2: Robert Graves Greek Myths is available in two formats, a two-volume set (regular Penguin paperback size, with each volume clearly titled 1 or 2) and a single volume (larger size and thicker). The contents of the two formats are identical. I have ordered the single-volume for this course, since I find it more convenient to use, but bookstores often get confused and order just one volume of the two-volume set, so make sure you have the full Graves! Note 3: Morford and Lenardon's Classical Mythology has been revised regularly and each edition differs from the previous
one (slightly different Greek and Latin texts cited and excerpted, and
different page numbers). It is best to use one of the latest
editions, which are much fuller than earlier editions: the ninth edition has just come out (2010), but it is almost identical to the 8th edition, which has not really been outdated. (If you do use the 8th edition, note that the page numbers are different, of course.) READING SCHEDULEThe following is a schedule of the ‘core’ texts we expect everyone to become familiar with week by week. We expect to be able to count on your having read these texts by the beginning of the week for which they are listed. Please note that you will be doing other reading in addition to these texts: (1) we expect you to be doing your own ‘follow-up’ research for each text, looking up context, ancillary material, background, names, terms etc., using Graves, MacKendrick, Pausanias, online material via GreekReligion.org and so on. You will find Pausanias especially useful when you write your paper. Get used to using the indices for these books. (2) as you develop your own interests (and especially in connection with the paper) you will probably want to look at other texts you come across, or that we recommend to you individually. E.g. if you work on the Furies you will want to read Aeschylus’ Eumenides or Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus; if you work on games festivals you may find yourself reading some Pindar - and so on. (3) in your weekly section your TA may sometimes assign texts of major importance not on this list. Note: you will get plenty of opportunity to utilise any material you cover that is not listed directly below. Both mid-term and final exams will have plenty of choice and will not be limited to what is listed here. Please do as much reading over the weekend as you can to prepare for the upcoming week. Please be aware that these texts are keyed in part to the material we will cover in lecture week by week, but in addition this schedule spreads the workload fairly evenly through the semester. Do not expect everything on the Schedule to be discussed in class in the exact same week as it appears here. The course and the reading are designed to be cumulative: class presentation will assume that you are reading and studying these texts carefully on a continuous basis, and both building and rebuilding familiarity with them. You should expect to visit and then revisit. This approach is essential to our overall project, to construct a true understanding of how Greek Religion works. * In the schedule that follows, books are referred to by the abbreviations annotated to the right of each title in the list above. * For the Sources book (S) page references refer to the corrected edition published in 2009: corresponding page numbers for the original edition (light blue cover) are given in square brackets after the 2009 page numbers. * Weeks are numbered starting with the short week of August 26-27 as the first, 'Week 2' being the week that begins on Monday 30 August. Week 1: CW 130-145, 200-205; AGR xv-29 Week 2: P 1-28; S 1-19, 39-51 [1-25, 51-68]; AGR 32-51; CW 1-41, 42-53; Euripides Trojan Women Week 3: R ch. 1-3; P 119-134; S 19-22 [25-30]; AGR 61-63, 102-118; CW 66-87, 94-101, 146-153; Nilsson Ch. 1 Week 4: P 154-166; S 81-88 [107-115]; AGR 124-168; Nilsson Ch. 2, 4 Week 5: CW 102-129; P 29-77; R ch. 4-6, 12 Week 6: P 78-118; R ch. 8-10; AGR 54-58, 68-78; Euripides Ion; S 105-110 [139-146] Week 7: P 186-204; R ch. 14; S 96 [126-7]; AGR 59-61; Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis Week 8: [mid-term] Nilsson Ch.5, 6; S 89-92, 113-114 [117-121, 150-151] Week 9: CW 54-65; S 62-65 [81-85]; R appendix 1, appendix 2; Week 10: R ch. 7; S 111-120 147-159]; Euripides Hippolytus; Week 11: CW 170-199, 206-213; AGR 92-102; S 71-80 [93-106] Week 12: P 135-153; AGR 78-92, 170-184; R ch. 11; Nilsson Ch. 3, 7; S 52-61, 93-104, 127-145 [69-80, 123-137, 169-193] Week 13: R ch. 13; S 146-190 [195-255]; AGR 58-59, 85-92; Euripides Bacchae Week 14: P 205-240; S 23-37, 67-70, 121-125 [31-50, 87-91, 161-167]; AGR 186-226 Week 15: |
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