LITERATURE HUMANITIES: SYLLABUS 2017-18

FALL 2017 CC1001

Sept. 6 (W only) Homer, Iliad (1st and 2

nd 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 2

nd 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 2

nd day)

16 Aeschylus, Oresteia (1st and 2

nd 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 2

nd 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. Nehemas, 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 2

nd day)

22 Augustine, Confessions (1st and 2

nd day)

29 Dante, Inferno (1st and 2

nd 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 2

nd 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 2

nd day)

Mar. 5 Cervantes, Don Quixote (3rd

day)

Midterm

12 SPRING BREAK

19 Milton, Paradise Lost (1st and 2

nd 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 2

nd day)

23 Morrison, Song of Solomon (1st and 2

nd 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)