Monday Wednesday Friday
Jan 14 16 18
Intro to course

Origins & Conventions
Assignment: Syllabus quiz in Moodle
Origins & Conventions

21 23 25
Martin Luther King Day:

No class

Origins & Conventions

Read: Agamemnon lines 1-974

28 30
Read: Agamemnon lines 975-end

Read: Choëphoroe (Libation Bearers)




Feb 1




Read: Eumenides

4 6 8
Introduction to Sophocles
See Moodle for reading assignment
Read: Antigone

Class Canceled

11 13 15
Read: Oedipus the King

See Moodle for reading assignment

Presidents' Day Holiday

No class

18 20 22
Read: Oedipus at Colonus

Read: Alcestis

Due to Snow, class canceled
Critical Review due electronically, but ...
25 27
Read: Hippolytus

Read: Medea





Mar 1




Transmission of the texts
"Introduction" to Euripides

4 6 8
Introduction to Aristophanes
Mid-term due
Revised Critical Review due
Read Aristophanes' Clouds

Read Aristophanes' Wasps

11 13 15
Spring Break

No class

Spring Break

No class

Spring Break

No class

18 20 22
Read Aristophanes' Lysistrata

Read Aristophanes' The Birds

Read Aristophanes' Frogs

25 27 29
Introduction to Roman Drama
Outline & Bibliography due
Read: Seneca's Thyestes

Reread Seneca's Thyestes


April 1 3 5
Easter Weekend

No class

Read Plautus' The Braggart Soldier

Read Plautus' The Haunted House

8 10 12
Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus& Movie

Plautus & Movie

Plautus & Movie
Research paper due
15 17 19
Presentations by
Grigor
Presentations by
Trip, Amy, Marie
Presentations by
Freda, Maulik, Erica
22 24 26
Presentations by
Erin, Adam, Q
Presentations by
Jack, Andy, Talisha
Presentations by
Kevin, Chase, Karma
29 May 1 3
Presentations by
Sarah, Mariana, Jessica
Presentations by
Nick, Rachel, Taylor
Taste of Ancient Greece & Rome

6 8 10


final exam due at noon
(paper and electronic copies)