S19-CLA 340 Assignments

Gorgon's head on a silver coin permission to use image granted

The god Apollo on a gold coin of Syracuse image courtesy of Edgar L. Owen, #3803


Tuesday	Thursday
Jan 15	17
General Introduction	In-class: movie read Johnson, pp 15-31; submit 2 interesting/surprising things in the discussion folder in Canvas
22	24
Movie continued read Malina, pp 1-25; submit 2 interesting/surprising things in the discussion folder in Canvas	read Malina, pp 27-53; submit 2 interesting/surprising things in the discussion folder in Canvas
29	31
Excerpt from Iliad, Book 1 for male honor	Excerpt from Livy's account of Lucretia for female honor/shame. Carter, pp 1-13

Feb 5	7
Apuleius, Book 1; Carter, pp 14-26 Identification of topics for critical review	College Closed due to Weather
12	14
Apuleius, Books 2, 3-4.27; Carter, pp 27-43 Pick topic for Critical Review	Apuleius, Books 4.28-6
19	21
Apuleius, Books 10-11	Critical Review due Topic for first paper to be distributed
26	28
MacMullen & Lane, pp 9-26, 29-49, 50-54; Johnson, pp 32-49	MacMullen & Lane, pp 64-78, 152-163; Brown, pp 27-53 (FYI: not pdfs)

Mar 5	7
Revised Critical Review 1 due reports	Humphries, pp 1-63 reports
12	14
Assessment Day No Class	Humphries, pp 64-96 First Paper due
19	21
No Class: Spring Break	No Class: Spring Break
26	28
New Testament: Matthew 1-9; Luke 1-8; Acts 1-8, 13-28; Epistles of Paul to Corinthians, Electronic copies, click here also look at Humphries, 65–81 again	Orthodoxy & Heresy: Humphries, pp 157-185; Selections from gnostic texts (Infancy Gospel of Thomas; Gospel of Thomas; gospel of truth) and from Iranaeus Against Heresies, 3. Preface, Chapters 1–3, 11, 24–25; skim Athenagoras in MacMullen & Lane, pp 173-198, especially reply to 3 pagan objections to Christianity

Apr 2	4
Persecutions: MacMullen and Lane, pp 164–166, 218–239; Humphries, pp 186–224	Persecutions & the Martyr Perpetua, click here Kinship & Marriage: Malina, pp 134–146 & 154–161 (Canvas)
9	11
Persecutions: de Ste. Croix(Canvas); Stark, pp 163–190 Persecutions today click here Revised Paper due	Constantine: MacMullen & Lane pp 262–265; biography (click here); Conversion post Constantine: MacMullen and Lane, pp 279–289; Stark, pp 3–28 More from the BBC: click here
16	18
Holy Men & Women: MacMullen and Lane, pp 138–151; Brown, pp 96–112 (Canvas)	Undergraduate Scholars Forum extra credit option
23	25
Augustine, excerpts from Confessions, Brown, pp 60–68, 82–94 (Canvas)	reports everyone else: read one of the chapters Second Critical Review due
30	May 2
reports everyone else: read one of the chapters	A Taste of Ancient Rome