Assignments

All assignments must be completed by the date they are listed.

The following schedule is a bare-bones listing of your assignments. As we go through the semester, fuller assignment pages will be posted that include questions and issues to think about as you read, links to relevant resources on the web, and more information and guidance on special assignments, such as site visits.

Aug. 25	Introduction
Aug. 27	The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sep. 1	Genesis 1-25
	Response due via e-mail
Sep. 3	Genesis 26-50
Sep. 8	Exodus 1-20
Sep. 10	Iliad, books 1-4 (skip ll. 584-862 of Bk. 2)
Sep. 15	Iliad, Books 6, 9, 12, 14
	Response due via e-mail
Sep. 17	Iliad, Books 16-18
	Selections from Hesiod's Theogony (EL 17-23)
Sep. 22	Iliad, Books 19-24
Sep. 24	Oedipus the King (TTP)
	Selections from Aristotle's Poetics, parts IV through XI and parts XII and XIII (EL 104-110; 5th ed., 82-88)
	Essay questions for the First Test posted.
Sep. 29	Oedipus at Colonus (TTP)
Oct. 1	First test (material from 8/25 through 9/29)
Oct. 6	Antigone (TTP)
Oct. 8	Plato: Euthyphro, Apology and Crito
	Response due via e-mail
	First paper topics posted
Oct. 13	Plato: Phaedo; selection from Plato's Republic Book VII (EL 94-99; 5th ed., 72-78)
Oct. 15	Aeneid, Bk. 1-4
	Selections from Livy's history of Rome (EL 154-59; 5th ed., 132-37)
Oct. 20	Aeneid, Bk. 5-8
	Selection from Ovid's Metamorphoses Read Bk. I, up to line 437. (EL 164-72; 5th ed., 142-50)
	Virgil's Fourth Eclogue (EL 136-38; 5th ed., 114-16)
Oct. 22	Aeneid, Bk. 9-12
	Response due via e-mail
Oct. 27	Mark 1-16
	First paper due
Oct. 29	Matthew, 1-2; Luke 1-2; John 1:1-18
	Matthew 5-7, 13
	Selections from The Gospel of Thomas Read verses 1-3, 12-18, 24-28, 31, 34-38, 44, 62-63, 74-77, 89-90, 113-114. (EL 200-203; 5th ed., 178-81)
	Essay questions for the Second Test posted
Nov. 3	Acts 1-15
	I Corinthians 11-13
Nov. 5	Second test (material from 10/6 through 11/3)
Nov. 10	Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy
	Response due via e-mail
Nov. 12	Selections from the Koran (EL 237-48; 5th ed., 215-26)
Nov. 17	Caedmon's Vision and "Hymn" (ASW 161-163, 197); Caedmon's Hymn
	The Beginning of the Theogony
	The Wanderer (ASW 50-53); The Seafarer (ASW 53-56)
	The Battle of Maldon (ASW 11-19)
Nov. 19	Beowulf (ASW 70-154)
	Response due via e-mail
	Second Paper Topics posted
Nov. 24	Chretien: The Knight of the Cart
Thanksgiving	No class
Dec. 1	Chretien: The Knight with the Lion
Dec. 3	Marie de France Lanval
	Hildegard of Bingen
	Hildegard's Opening Declaration to Scivias
	Hildegard on the Trinity
Dec. 8	Final discussion
	Second paper due
Dec. 10	Final: 7:30-9:30 am