January

25: Gilgamesh

27: Gilgamesh

February

1: Egyptian Poetry & The Tale of Sinhue

3: Sinhue & Odyssey

8: Bernard Knox, "Introduction to Iliad"; Iliad Book I 

10: Homer, Iliad (pp. 104-160)

15: Homer, Iliad (pp. 161-209)

17: Aeschylus, Agamemnon (first play of Orestia trilogy)

24: Aeschylus, Agamemnon

March

1: Sophocles, Oedipus class cancelled

3: Aeshcylus, Agamemnon & Sophocles, Oedipus

8: Sophocles, Oedipus cancelled

10: Sophocles, Oedipus

15: Aristophanes, Lysistrata

17: Aristotle, Poetics (selections in anthology)

29: Virgil, Aeneid (Books I, II, IV, VI)

31: Midterm short answer portion; assign essay portion

April

5: Beowulf (midterm essays due; no late papers will be accepted; no exceptions)

7: Beowulf

12: Boccaccio, Decameron (excerpts)

14: Boccaccio, Decameron; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Prologue; bibliographies due

19: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (excerpts)

21: Shakespeare, Othello

26: Shakespeare, Othello

28: Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; Ernest Hemingway, "Clean, Well-Lighted," "Indian camp"

May

3: Richard Rodriguez, "Late Victorians"; Jo Ann Beard, "The Fourth State of Matter"

6: Research Papers due

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