Monday Wednesday Friday
Jan 11 13 15
Intro to course

Class canceled
Dr. Leuci sick
Origins & Conventions
Assignment: Syllabus quiz in Moodle
18 20 22
Martin Luther King Day:

No class

Origins & Conventions

Read: Agamemnon lines 1-974

25 27 29
Read: Agamemnon lines 975-end

Read: Choëphoroe (Libation Bearers)

Read: Eumenides


Feb 1 3 5
Introduction to Sophocles
See Moodle for reading assignment
Read: Antigone

Read: Oedipus the King

8 10 12
Read: Oedipus at Colonus

See Moodle for reading assignment

Presidents' Day Holiday
No class

15 17 19
Transmission of the texts
"Introduction" to Euripides
Critical Review due
Read: Hippolytus

Read: Medea


22 24 26
Read: Alcestis

Seneca—Bring book to class; have written down 1-2 plays you are interested in reading Introduction to Roman Drama
Outline & Bibliography due

29 Mar 2 4
Start movie
Revised Critical Review due
Continue movie

Finish movie (will continue till 12:55 pm)

7 9 11
Discuss Movie
Mid-term due
Read: Seneca Hercules Furens

Read: Seneca Thyestes

14 16 18
Read Aristophanes' Wasps

Read Aristophanes' Clouds

Read Aristophanes' Lysistrata

21 23 25
Read Aristophanes' The Birds

Read Aristophanes' Frogs

No class since we went till 12:30 one day watching the movie.
Research paper due
28 30 Apr 1
Spring Break

No class

Spring Break

No class

Spring Break

No class


4 6 8
Introduction to Plautus

Read Plautus' The Braggart Soldier

Read Plautus' The Haunted House

11 13 15
Read Plautus' The Pot of Gold & Movie

PlautusThe Brothers Menaechmus & Movie

Presentations by Katie
& Movie
18 20 22
Presentations by Caitlyn, Kevin
Final Draft of Research paper due
Presentations by Adrianna, Jonathan, Iain

Presentations by Michael, Mitch, Brynn

25 27 29
Presentations by Collin, Lucy, Bronwin

Presentations by Caitlyn, Andrew

Taste of Ancient Greece & Rome




Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
May 2 3 4 5 6
3 pm: take-home final due