Spring 2008 Course Calendar
Updated: 24 March 2008
Class meets MW from 4-5:15 in Grainger 114.
Unless otherwise indicated, the numerals following the titles of the works listed below refer to the major divisions of the work in question--for Homer and Vergil, "books"; for Dante, "cantos"; and for Petrarch, individual poems.
The instructor will provide the password for hyperlinked texts below. Check the online version of this syllabus regularly for updates.
| 14 January | Course introduction. |
| 16 January | Homer, Iliad 1, 2 (lines 1-583 only), 3. |
| 23 January | Homer, Iliad 4, 5, 6. |
| 28 January | Homer, Iliad 8 (lines 1-90, 566-654 only), 9, 16. |
| 30 January | Homer, Iliad 18, 19 (lines 333-356 only), 22, 24.. |
| 4 February | Vergil, Aeneid 1-2. |
| 6 February | Vergil, Aeneid 4, 6. |
| 11 February | Vergil, Aeneid 8 (lines 775-955), 10 (lines 593-1248), 12 (lines 928-1271). |
| 13 February | The Bhagavad Gita, chapters 1-11. |
| 18 February | Essay 1 Due. |
| 20 February | The New Testament, Sermon on the Mount (King James Version) (Matthew 5-7); selections from Augustine's Confessions; selections from Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. |
| 25 February | Dante, Inferno 1-5. |
| 27 February | Dante, Inferno 6, 10, 13-15. |
| 3 March | Dante, Inferno 26-27, 32-34. |
| 5 March | Dante, Inferno conclusion. |
| 17 March | Selections from Li Po. Read as many of Li Po's poems as you can and select one that you'd like to talk about in class. |
| 19 March | Essay 2 Due. Introduction to the Renaissance. |
| 24 March | Petrarch, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux" and selections from the Canzoniere. |
| 26 March | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 1-8. |
| 31 March | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 9-15. |
| 2 April | Cervantes, Don Quixote, part 1, chs. 20, 22, 25, and 52. |
| 7 April | Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel selections. [pdf] |
| 9 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 1-17. |
| 14 April | Voltaire, Candide, chapters 18-30. |
| 16 April | Viewing and discussion of Krapp's Last Tape. Text available here. [pdf] |
| 21 April | Conferences. |
| 23 April | Conferences. |
Final Exam. Please bring a blue book to class. Last date to hand in Essay 3. |