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Monday Wednesday
Aug 27 29
Intro to the course; The Nature of Myth: Maurizio, Ch 1

 Creation: Maurizio, Ch 2.1–2 (excluding The Theogony)

Sept 3 5
Labor Day
No Class
 Creation: Maurizio, Ch 2.2, The Theogony, pp 55–76, Ch 2.3; Leonard & McClure, Ch 2 (Norse), Ch 3 (Vietnamese)
10 12
Zeus and Hera: Maurizio, Ch 3.1–2

 Hancock Symposium
17 19
Flood Myths: Maurizio, Ch 3.3; Leonard & McClure, Ch 2 (Hindu, Norse, Mayan)
 Demeter & Hades: Maurizio, Ch 4.1 (excluding Hymn 2: To Demeter)
Paper 1 due
24 26
Mother Goddesses: Maurizio, Ch 4.1 (Hymn 2: To Demeter), 4.3; Leonard & McClure, Ch 2 (Iroquois), pdf (Egyptian)
 Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Ares: Maurizio, Ch 5.1 (Hymn 5: To Aphrodite), 5.3 (Ishtar); earlier version (click here); Leonard & McClure, Ch 3 (Hawaiian)

Oct 1 3
Exam 1
 Athena & Poseidon: Maurizio, Ch 6.1
8 10
Athena & Poseidon: Maurizio, Ch. 6.1 (myth), 6.2, & 6.3

 Hermes & Hestia: Maurizio, Ch. 7.1
Paper 2 due
15 17
Artemis & Apollo: Maurizio, Ch 8

 Hermes & Hestia: Maurizio, Ch 7.1 (Hymn to Hermes), 7.3 (Egyptian); Leonard & McClure, Ch 5 ("7 great deeds of Maui")
22 24
Exam 2

 Myths: 8.1 (Hymn 3: to Apollo and Hymn 27: to Artemis);
possibly 9.1 (Euripides, from Bacchae and Hymn 7: To Dionysos)
29 31
Dionysus: Maurizio, Ch 9 (9.3: Catullus, "Attis")

 Achilles: Maurizio, Ch 10.1
Paper 3 due

Nov 5 7
Achilles: (10.1: Homer, from the Iliad; 10.3: from the Epic of Gilgamesh)
Movie
 Medea, Maurizio, Ch 11

Movie
12 14
EXAM 3


 Medea: continued (11.1: Euripides, from Medea; 11.3: Ovid, from Book VII, Metamorphoses)
19 21
No Class: Thanksgiving Break

 No Class: Thanksgiving Break
26 28
Class cancelled due to snow/ice Odysseus and Quest Heroes: Maurizio, Ch 12.1–3
Paper 4 due

Dec 3 5
Movie
Iphigenia and Quest Heroines, Ch 13.1

 Movie
Iphigenia and Quest Heroines, Ch 13.2–3
Paper 5 due
10
A Taste of Ancient Greece



Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Dec 10 11 12 13 14 15


Last day of classes

 3 pm
Exam 4 & Paper 6