English 3413 Spring 2010 Mercer

Unit 1—The Ancient World

January 13

Introduction to course

In-class viewing of beginning of video of Oedipus the King

January 20

Homer, The Odyssey 86-89(m), 94-100, 139-51

Handout (available in hard copy only): “The Theater of Sophocles”

“Aeschylus” [history of Greek drama] 339-40(t)

Sophocles, Oedipus the King 388-433(m)

Extra-credit video: Oedipus the King [Please try to watch this video in its entirety sometime before the end of this unit.]

Aristotle, Poetics 520(m)-24

January 27

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 89(m)-91(t), 466-99(t)

Extra-credit video: Lysistrata

Plato, The Apology of Socrates 91-92, 499-520(m)

February 3

Virgil, The Aeneid 626-31, 636-41(t), 648-68(t)

Extra-credit video: Dido and Aeneas

Ovid, Metamorphoses 683-99

February 10

Confucius, Analects 528(b)-30(t), 545(m)-55

Chuang Chou, Chuang Tzu 555(b)-65

Bhagavad-G§t~ 566-75, 612(m)-24

February 17

First half of period

Sappho, lyric poems 336(b)-39(t)

Catullus, lyric poems 632-36(t)

Second half of period

Unit 1 exam