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Reading Assignment: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe While the classical literature nosotros tend to study in courses such as this is serious and often securely entwined with social and political changes and upheavals, in that location are also a number of Greek "romance novels" that tell of the adventures of extremely beautiful, innocent young lovers who, against all odds (robbers, pirates, wrongful enslavement, lustful kings and masters, shipwrecks, and wars) finally fidn their way back to each other and ultimate happiness.  Daphnis and Chloe is a curt novel that evokes some of these trials and tribulations, while maintaining a light and humourous perspective.  But how light is information technology really?  And what does "light" mean when y'all bargain with young dear?

Cupid and Psyche: This story is from Apuleius' novel, The Golden Ass (also called Metamorphoses) is told by an old woman to a immature girl who has been kidnapped by robbers (along with the novel's hero, Lucius, who has been turned into a ass).  The young girl eventually escapes, back to her beloved fiance, who is later murdered by a jealous rival.

Give-and-take Topics

1. Daphnis and Chloe  is a pastoral novel, which means that information technology is gear up in the countryside and portrays a romantic view of a harmonious society of shepherds -- which nonetheless, at times, has an undercurrent of sorrow.  This pastoral setting could be regarded as an imaginative earth taht avoids -- or at least rewrites -- the tensions of the real earth.  What elements of the story (or how it's told) emphasize this pastoral ideal?

2. Both Daphnis and Chloe and "Cupid and Psyche" are romantic stories in a style that the previous narratives we've seen take not been (although The Gilded Ass is very dissimilar from Daphnis and Chloe overall).  In what means are they similar, and in what ways are they different?   Consider the fashion love develops between the protagonists, the role of jealousy (who has it and what happens because of information technology), the sources of conflict that might prevent the immature lovers' eventual wedlock, and the graphic symbol traits of the protagonists that assist them achieve their eventual union.

three. Examine how the issues/themes of prophetic dreams, falling in love, homosexual characters, and slavery announced in Daphnis and Chloe.  How are they similar to / different from the occurrences of these themes in other works?

Terms and Names

• Daphnis -a young attractive goatherd nurtured by goats as a baby, raised by ii poor farmers (Lamon and Myrtale). An innocent country boy who falls in love with Chloe.

• Lamon -Daphnis� adoptive father who is a poor farmer. He lives on a rich human being�s estate as a slave.

• Myrtale -Daphnis� adoptive female parent. She agreed to intendance for Daphnis equally her own (plays an insignificant function in the novel).

• Chloe -a young shepherdess nurtured by sheep equally a babe. She is the adoptive daughter of Dryas and Nape. A na�ve lily-white girl who falls in love with Daphnis.

• Dryas -Chloe�s adoptive male parent who is a poor farmer. Dryas and Nape alive adjacent to Daphnis� parents.

• Nape -Chloe�due south adoptive female parent. She agreed to enhance Chloe as her own (plays an insignificant part in the novel).

• Dorcon �a cowherd who was in love with Chloe. He participated in a competition confronting Daphnis to win a buss from Chloe.

• The Methymneans �rich city men who come to Lesbos on a partying voyage. They cause drama in Daphnis and Chloe�s harmonious earth by accusing Daphnis of letting his sheep eat their boat rope.

• Philetus �an quondam pipage-playing man who teaches Daphnis and Chloe about love and how to enjoy the beauties of information technology. He later becomes a judge in a legal affair concerning Daphnis.

• Lycaenion �experienced woman from the metropolis whose proper name ways �wolfie.� She is married to an older man in the area but he is not a primal player in this novel. She ultimately seduces Daphnis and teaches him a few things.

• Lampis �some other immature herdsman who is in love with Chloe. He was a peachy who asked Dryas for Chloe�s hand in marriage. He damaged Lamon�due south master�south garden in hopes of destroy Daphnis� chances for marrying Chloe.

• Dionysophanes and Cleariste �wealthy owners of the estate on which Daphnis, Lamon, and Myrtale work. They are also Daphnis� biological parents.

• Astylus �very attractive son of Dionysophanes and Cleariste, who ultimately becomes Daphnis� brother.

• Gnathon -described as a �parasite� who mooches off of Astylus. He is very attracted to Daphnis and becomes some other obstacle for the couple.

• Megacles and Rhode �Chloe�south biological parents who show that poverty is the reason for leaving Chloe as a baby.

Resources

The Petronian Society ancient novel web page, with summaries of the extant ancient novels and various other resources.

Guide to Daphnis and Chloe: Prepared by my students in an Ancient Novel class; a useful summary and graphic symbol listing.

Fantabulous reading guide to Daphnis and Chloe, which touches on the discussions nosotros volition have.

Tuesday, April nineteen

Reading & Overview

Reading Assignment:Cupid and Psyche: This story is from Apuleius' novel, The Gold Donkey (also called Metamorphosis) is told by an old woman to a immature girl who has been kidnapped by robbers (along with the novel'due south hero, Lucius, who has been turned into a donkey).  The immature girl eventually escapes, dorsum to her love fiance, who is later murdered by a jealous rival.

Terms and Names

Apulius, author of The Golden Ass.

Lucius- the primary character in the novel, a young aloof businessman, traveling to Thessaly, whose fascination with magic caused him to be transformed into an ass.

Charite -- captured past thieves; Lucius�s partner in captivity. Her fiance tricks the bandits: Later after her marriage to Tlepolemus, commits suicide afterward avenging his murder.

Old woman � keeps house for the band of robbers. She comforted the girl they kidnapped (Charite) with a tale of Cupid and Psyche; commits suicide after Lucius and Charite escape.

New Recruit/Tlepolemus -- tricks bandits into preserving Charite: Gets bandits drunk and leads Charite and Lucius away: Marries Charite and was later on killed by his supposed friend Thrasyllus.

The Male monarch and Queen�the parents of Psyche.

Psyche�the youngest, and most cute of three daughters of a king and queen.

Psyche�s ii older sisters� less beautiful, and envious of her practiced fortune.

Venus�the goddess of love and beauty, mother of Cupid, jealous of Psyche's beauty.

Cupid�the son of Venus who shoots both gods and humans with arrows in order to make them fall in love.

Zephyrus�wind god who wafted Psyche from the mountain down to Cupid�s home.

Pan�the goat god who encouraged Psyche not to requite upwardly hope that Cupid would forgive her.

Ceres and Juno�goddesses to whom both Venus and Psyche unsuccessfully applied for assistance.

Jove�male monarch of the gods.

Proserpine�queen of the underworld.

Charon�ferries traffic in the underworld with his skiff.

Mercury�messenger for the other gods.

Thursday, April 14

Reading & Overview

Reading Assignment:Seneca, Thyestes The story of the cruel and unusual penalization Atreus inflicted on this presumptious blood brother Thyestes.

Discussion Topics

The story of Thyestes is plain one of the least pleasant aspects of the stories of Mycenae, setting up the hatred of Aegistheus for Agamemnon.

What purpose does Seneca desire to achieve in presenting this cloth?  What issue might it have on its audiences?

How are we meant to feel about the leading characters in the play (from contexts or commentary in the text)?

What techniques (descriptions, stagecraft, etc.) does Seneca use to create an issue?

There is controversy over whether this play was meant to exist performed or merely read or read aloud.  What is your feeling about the effect of these unlike modes of "receiving" the story and its images?

Notation: the translation we have has been somewhat adjusted; the notes on the stagecraft are all modern and reflect how a modern version might be staged.  Just they do arise,  more or less, from comments in the text that suggest how the scenes should exist revealed.)

Terms and Names

Virgil	Aeneid
Aeneas	Dido
Juno	Venus
Turnus	Nisus
Euryalus	Iulus
Mezentius	Seneca
Thyestes	Atreus

Resources

Virgil's Aeneid: A comprehensive site -- one of the best things about it is its brief summaries of different (scholarly) interpretations of the Aeneid.

Virgil: A website devoted to him, with abundant bibliography and an ancient biography.

Virgil Project:  This is oriented toward Latin students, but it has a lot of interesting commentary (in English) linked from the Latin text.

Seneca Biography

About.com has a prissy page on Seneca.

Th, Apr 7

Reading & Overview

Reading Assignment:  Virgil Aeneid (Stop at the beginning of the Nisus/Euryalus department.  I will bring in a department on Venus and Aenesa for us to wait at in course as well.

(office I)) This version (of all Virgil readings) is incomplete (not all introductions are completed) but if you want to get started on it, here it is.)

Discussion Topics

Love presumably ranks below warfare, the public skillful, and the guidance of the gods here.  Is information technology merely a foil to those things -- something that causes take chances to these greater concerns?  Does information technology have any value in and of itself?

What role practice the gods play in inspiring beloved and other emotions?  To what extent is love purely a result of these manipulations, and to what extent is it an innate human characteristic?

Terms and Names

Ovid	Ars Amatoria
Narcissus	Echo
Pyramus	Thisbe
Procne	Tereus
Philomela	Pygmalion
Myrrha	Venus
Adonis	Atalanta

Writing Assignment:

Write a brief (one-folio) comparison of any two dearest stories in Ovid�s Metamorphoses, of which one or both should be from the part 2 of our Ovid readings.  You tin consider things like willingness (or not) of lovers; power dynamics between lovers; ultimate issue of the interaction; words/images in which love & related or resultant emotions are described; and whatsoever else seems to encapsulate the similarities & differenced betwixt the stories you compare.  This is not meant to have more than than form time to exercise, and will count every bit a quiz grade.

Tuesday, April 5

Reading & Overview

Quiz :Quote identification from material since midterm through Ovid part I.

See below for the writing assignment to make up for class cancelled Th.  Some people have told me that they did not receive the electronic mail with the consignment.  Therefore it is OK to turn in the consignment on Th.

Reading Assignment: Ovid, The Art of Love:

• Read Book I.2-seven and whatsoever half dozen other sections, of which at least 2 should be instructions to men, ii instructions to men.  Be prepared to describe the content of the sections you cull to the class.

(For Thursday: Virgil Excerpts (part I)) This version (of all Virgil readings) is incomplete (not all introductions are completed) merely if you want to get started on it, here it is.)

Terms and Names

Ovid	Ars Amatoria
Narcissus	Echo
Pyramus	Thisbe
Procne	Tereus
Philomela	Pygmalion
Myrrha	Venus
Adonis	Atalanta

Tuesday, March 29 and Thursday, March 31

Reading & Overview

• Ovid, Metamorphoses i (excerpts from books 1-3  (Tuesday)

• Ovid, Metamorphoses ii (excerpts from books iv-end) (Th)

Discussion Topics

Metamorphoses I word questions

Terms and Names

Ovid	Metamorphoses
Apollo (Pheobus)	Cupid
Daphne	amor
Jupiter	Juno
Io	Inachus
Argus	Pan
Syrinx	Phaethon
Diana	Callisto

Tuesday March 22

Reading & Overview

Cicero, On Friendship (De Amicitia)

Study Guide (overview of the text, comments on named characters/examples of friendship, focus questions about central aspects of friendship)

Terms and Names

Marcus Tullius Cicero	Atticus
Scipio Africanus	Gaius Laelius
Rome (democracy/empire)	amor
amicitia

Tuesday, March viii-Thursday, March 10

Reading & Overview

Alter in reading assignments:  We will brainstorm with Catullus (Tuesday) and other Latin Poets (Thursday), continue with Cicero et alii on love (Tuesday after intermission) so Plautus (Thursday subsequently interruption).

Tuesday:

• Catullus 1 of the most personable, attainable, funny, nasty, obscene, and lyrical of the poets of artifact

• Catullus, Atthis (this is new and not linked from the assignments page)

Th:

• Propertius (Poems)

• Tibullus (Poems)

• Sulpicia (Poems)

Discussion Topics

• NEW DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

• Lesbia, to whom Catullus addresses some of his most cute and deadliest poesy, is more often than not thought to be his name for Clodia Metella, the wife of a prominent Roman politician (and brother of some other, less reputable i).

  • In the Lesbia poems, what impression practice you become of this human relationship?

  • Clearly many different feelings toward Lesbia are expressed, and in no particular lodge (in terms of the system of the poems).  Do you go the sense of the progression of a real relationship, or of feelings irresolute within a less unstable relationship, or ...

• What role does friendship play in Catullus' persona as seen in the poems?

• How does Catullus compare with Archilochus in terms of his views of friendship, enmity, and women?

• In the Attis verse form, nosotros see the results of religious passion.  Is this sort of passion e'er this dangerous?  What if whatsoever is the proper relationship between men and gods?

Terms and Names

Catullus	Lesbia
neoteric	Clodia
Rome (commonwealth/empire)	Julius Caesar
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Propertius
Tibullus	Sulpicia
Atthis	Cybele

Resources

Catullus Translation Folio  This site collects translations of Catullus in various languages from translators all over the earth.  (Information technology is the source of many of the ones used in our excerpts.)  Information technology also has a curtailed introduction to Catullus that situates him in Roman culture and in Greek/Roman literature.

VRoma Catullus resource Know Latin?  And so this folio is for y'all ... OK, even if y'all don't ... This folio has links to all of Catullus' poems in literal translations (with facing Latin); the poems are besides indexed by field of study and past the people/characters in them, and who they were or might have been.

Poems read with commentary: Translation, give-and-take, verse form read in Latin:

• Catullus 5 (Lesbia)

• Catullus 101 (on his blood brother's death)

Tuesday March ane

Reading & Overview

Plato, Symposium:  A symposium in ancient Hellenic republic was a drinking party.  The guests were all men, except when hetaerae were invited.  The host (or host and guests together, equally here) established how strong the wine was going to exist, and each member of the symposium might accept to contribute something for shared entertainment -- a song, perhaps, or in the wilder kind, his shot at kottabos (throwing his wine lees at a target in the centre of the room) or, as in this instance, an improptu oral communication.  The philosopher Plato wrote this in the 370's BCE, through a chat that happened in the 400's, about an result that had happened some 20 years before.  At that place are layers in the narrative that match the layers of time: written by Plato, supposedly informed by the unnamed homo who discusses it with Apollodorus, who had it from Aristodemus, who was there, but who was asleep for almost of it; Socrates oral communication frames ane he attributes to the hetaera Diotima.

Midterm overview and essays   This link explains it all.

Discussion Topics

The speeches most love past the 5  guests  who speak earlier Socrates show very different perspectives on it.  Consider:

• Is love understood equally cosmic or human or both?

• Are there dissimilar kinds of love?

• What does the speaker use to back up his view of dearest?

• Does love have limitations in who can experience or express it?

• Is our distinction of "honey vs. lust" upheld in whatever of these speeches, and if so, what cultural nuances back up or contradict our own dichotomy?

• How does the audience receive each piece?

Does Plato present Socrates' speech equally "right"?

Why does Plato bring Alcibiades into information technology and then late -- does this give his commentary on love any special significance?

Terms and Names

Plato	Symposium (the work)
symposium (the party)	Pausanias
Phaedrus	Eryximachus
Aristophanes	Agathon
Socrates	Diotima
Alcibiades	eros
Common Aphrodite	Heavenly Aphrodite

Th Feb. 24

Reading & Overview

Euripides, Medea:

Nosotros'll proceed with Medea and go over the "character scenarios" from the last course.

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousae Athenian comedy was obscene, slapstick, and oriented toward political and personal satire.  In this play, women who are going to gloat the all-female person festival of Thesmophoria are infiltrated by Euripides' father-in-law in drag, whose mission is to go on them from harming Euripides because of his unfavorable portrayals of women.

Discussion Topics

We're reading Thesmophoriazeuai not and then much for personal expressions of beloved or detest, or fifty-fifty personal realtionships, but for more culturally based hostility or admiration of item people or classes of people.  One of the primal themes in this play is gender violations -- women in public space doing manly things, a normal heterosexual man in drag, and effeminate playwright ...

Where is mockery delivered, and confronting whom, and for what reasons?  Is this hostile, or are there hostile elements?  Does information technology signal tensions that might reflect cultural controversies?

Terms and Names

Euripides	Medea
Jason	Aegeus
Creon	Creusa
Dionysia	Theatron
Chorus	Orchestra
Hubris	Ate
Nemesis	episode
stychomachia	parodos
stasimon	katharsis (catharsis)
hamartia	miasma

Tuesday Feb. 22

Reading & Overview

Beginning ESSAY DUE

Euripides, Medea: Euripides was probably introduced the version of the Medea myth in which Medea kills her ain children as revenge on Jason.  But this is the one everyone remembers!  Medea was one of the most pregnant female figures in Greek mythology, playing a function in several myth cycles, and fifty-fifty ending up married to Achilles in Elysium (a heroic afterlife something like paradise).

Word Topics

Medea Give-and-take Questions (pdf): These are "position statements," giving brief interpretations of the characters of Jason and Medea and their roles in the play.  Be prepared to support any of them with references to speeches and actions, and to codify an interpretation of the play that includes a nuanced interaction betwixt these central characters.

The Protevi study guide is a quick outline listing the choruses and episodes and their subjets (a little interpretation included).  It can be helpful in locating the particular interactions/statements you want to cite.

Terms and Names

Euripides	Medea
Jason	Aegeus
Creon	Creusa
Dionysia	Theatron
Chorus	Orchestra
Hubris	Ate
Nemesis	episode
stychomachia	parodos
stasimon	katharsis (catharsis)
hamartia	miasma

Resources

• Dr. J'due south Introduction to Tragedy: and excellent cursory introduction to Tragedy in performance, together with Aristotle's description of the elements of tragedy.
• Ability Betoken with Images and Introductory Material
• John Protevi's guide to the structure of the Medea (one-page gudie with brief clarification of each scene and chorus)

Thursday Feb. 17

Reading & Overview

NOTE: FIRST ESSAY EXTENSION TILL TUESDAY FEB. 22 (New essay topics up; linked from Important Information)

Continuation of Agamemnon and Choephoroi. Annotation the discussion topic for Thursday (this course) requires structured preparation; see beneath.

Introduction to the Oresteia

Aeschylus, Agamamnon Aeschylus was the earliest of the Athenian dramatists of the 5th century BCE, whose plays defined drama in the Western world.  Plays wer epresented in trilogies, and while most trilogies dealth with different topics, Aeschylus' Oresteia (of which Agamenon and Choephoroi are the first 2 segments) deal with the aforementioned topic: the cursed family unit of the firm of Atreus.  Agamemnon deals with the return home of Agamemnon, leader of the Trojan War expedition, and his murder by his estranged wife, Clytemnestra.

Aeschylus, Choephoroi  The tale continues with the render dwelling house of Agamemnon's exiled son Orestes, and his murder of his female parent and her lover in revenge for their murder of his father.

Give-and-take Topic

The Consignment: Choose four or more than of the relationships listed below, and observe evidence for their intricacies in the plays.  Consider things such equally:

• What feelings do they have for 1 another (love, hate, resentment, loyalty, jealousy, neutrality, dependence, rebellion, etc.)

• In what ways practice mixtures of feelings (assuming you find them) interact?

• Where and how do the characters express these feeling?  Or where, how and why practise they conceal them?

• In what ways do these emotions come up out in the action of the play?

Relationships:

• Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

• Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

• Cassandra and anybody

• Clytemnestra and Orestes

• Agamemnon and Orestes

• Clytemnestra and Electra

• Agamemnon and Electra

• Electra and Orestes

• Orestes and Pylades

Annotation: At the beginning of class I volition laissez passer effectually a sheet with these relationships listed; you volition sign under which ones you have prepared and I will so call on you to share your ideas in form give-and-take.

Terms and Names

Tragedy	Aeschylus
Choephoroi	Agamemnon (play)
trilogy	Agamemnon (character)
Clytemnestra	Aegisthus
Orestes	Electra
chorus	Cassandra
dike	kratos
pathei mathos	Firm of Atreus
Trojan War	Oresteia
Pylades	Atreus
Thyestes

Resources

• NEW: Power Point with Images and Introductiry Textile
• Cummings Study Guide: A very complete and helpful guide to the Oresteia, focusing on everything from characters to themes to the history and staging of Greek drama.
• Theatron: An interactive three-D site with reconstructions of several ancient theaters, inclusing the theater of Dionysus in Athens where the Oresteia was first performed.  You take to download a 3D viewer for this, which takes about 15 seconds, only ir's worth it.

Tuesday Feb. 15

Word Topics

Agamemon:

1. Since our theme is Love and Hate -- how exercise the two emotions intersect and interact in this play?  Consider relationships between unlike characters, the expectations one might have of the sorts of relationships people in their position might have, and the ways in which these relationships really play out.
2. For a general reading guide for the play, see the Agamemnon Report Guide of Dr. Barbara McManus

Choephori (Libation Bearers):

How do beloved and hate play out in this 2nd generation?  Are hte motivations and deportment of Orestes and Electra whatever more or less moral than those of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus?  In what ways are conventional family relationships transgressed hither, and is love or detest (or neither) behind them?

For a general reading guide for the play, see the Choephoroi Study Guide of Dr. Barbara McManus

Resources

• Dr. D's Power Point on the Mycenaean Saga (from the Mythology Class): an overview of the events leading upward to the conflicts of the Oresteia, an overview of the Oresteia, and a cursory discription of other treatments of the story in literature, epecially drama; also containing a lot of images
• Dr. D'due south Power Point on the Trojan War (from the Mythology Course): various parts of thie more than general presentation explain how the war began and Agamemnon's participation in information technology.

Writing Consignment

Use the class time to write upward a cursory discussion � one folio � using quotes from the sources (Examples of Heroic Love, Aspasia, and Athenaeus) to answer the question: What do Greek sources propose nearly the potentials for love and/or hate in domestic relationships between men and women?  (Possible questions: Tin men and women get along in domestic relationships?  Under what circumstances?  Are some sorts of love or enmity not probable or even possible in domestic relationships?  Can friendships/loves between men and women equal those betwixt men, in terms of their worth and moral value?  Etc.)  Of class you lot don�t take to accost all of the sub-questions, but you may find one or several of them helpful in focusing your discussion.  This volition count the same as a quiz and I will give simple letter grades.  Turn it in Tuesday.

Th February. 10

Reading & Overview

Consignment:  If you lot did non go the email with the writing assignment, information technology is linked below; plow it in Th (today)

Greek Lyric Poesy Lyric poetry is literally "poesy sung to a lyre," so these poems were originally meant to exist sung.  Greek lyric poesy is typically expressive of personal feelings and situations that call for emotional response; lyric poets are often highly individual in their expressions even while some motifs recur many times.  Many of these poems are non complete, only are fragments that were preserved because they were quoted in other texts, or painstakingly reconstructed from papyrus fragments.

Aeschylus, Agamamnon (begin; most discussion will be with Choephoroi next calendar week) Aeschylus was the earliest of the Athenian dramatists of the 5th century BCE, whose plays defined drama in the Western world.  Plays wer epresented in trilogies, and while virtually trilogies dealth with different topics, Aeschylus' Oresteia (of which Agamenon and Choephoroi are the first ii segments) deal with the aforementioned topic: the cursed family of the house of Atreus.

Word Topics

Annotation: There are discussion questions most the Athenaeus reading at the end of the document.  I will effort to make clean them up a lilliputian and post them here tomorrow every bit well.

Greek Lyric:

• Are the dynamics of erastes and eromenos credible in the poetry in these excerpts?

• How would you narrate the dearest relationships between the characters/persona of the poems (e.thousand. fickle, passionate, ambitious, careless, exploitative, sensitive, loving, fleeting, lasting, ambivalent ....)

• Do dissimilar authors prove different dynamics in their presentation of love?

• What words or images are used to evoke love (of whatever variety) in these poems?  How do they create their sense of passion?

Terms and Names

Sappho	Archilochus
Anacreon	Ibycus
Lyric	poetic meter
lyre

Resources

• Introduction to Sappho and Lyric poetry
• The Divine Sappho: A lot of very interesting and diverse links on Sappho, including several to ancient primary sources that discuss her and her poetic techniques
• 6 different translations of one Sappho poem into English
• Power bespeak with images of erotic pursuit, erastes/eromenos relationships, and hetairai (includes some fairly graphic vase paintings)(Annotation: the one up today does not take labels for the images; I will put upwards an expanded version Mon with labels for the images)
• Summary of Olympian gods and goddesses (scroll down in the heart column, unless you want to read a lot of philosophy)

Jan. 18-20

Reading & Overview

Homer, Iliad (excerpts)  In the excerpts linked here, nosotros encounter a number of different relationships informed by honey and past detest (temporary or festering):  Achilles (the Trojan war'due south greatest hero) and his friend Patroclus, Achilles and the Trojan state of war's master leader, Agamemnon, Hector (the Trojans' greatest hero) and his married woman Andromache, Paris (who started information technology all) and his kidnapped wife Helen, Hector and his parents, and Achilles and Hector (who killed Patroclus).   Our goal: to look at the nuances of beloved and hate and how information technology manifests in the relationships we see hither -- parental, familial, marital, friendship, state of war-related or personal enmity.

Discussion Topics

Our goals are to investigate the relationships involving love and hate surrounding the characters of Achilles and Hector.  We will concentrate on Achilles on Tuesday, Hector on Thursday.

• Achilles is a warrior among warriors, in a military camp with very few women, a masculine environment.

• Hector is living in his native city, with a wife, parents, brothers, and fellow citizens.

For each of character, consider:

• What causes dear?  What forms can it accept?  How important is it to how a warrior leads his life?  How of import is information technology to woman/wife/mother?

• What causes hate?  What other emotions or experiences are related to it or function of the processes through which information technology manifests?  What are the material/personal results of hatred?

• What relationships give this character his satisfaction and pleasance in life?  What relationships are painful to him?

Terms and Names

Achilles	Patroclus
Paris	Helen
Hector	Andromache
Priam	Hecuba
Agamemnon	Homer
Iliad	oral verse
Athena	Apollo
Zeus	Thetis

Resource

• Master characters in our Iliad excerpts
• Outline of the Iliad, with hyperlinks to explain/place the principal characters
• Ability Bespeak presentation on the Trojan state of war (not only the Iliad, but other aspects every bit well) from Dr. D's Mythology class
• Summary of Olympian gods and goddesses (curlicue down in the middle column, unless y'all want to read a lot of philosophy)

Tuesday Jan. 25

Reading & Overview

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter:  The Homeric Hymns are a collection of hymns to gods and goddesses written between 650 and 450 BCE.  The Hymn to Demeter is ane of the oldest and longest, and it treats the central myth of Demeter and established the link between her daughter, Persephone, and the Underworld god Hades.  Information technology also established the importance of the Eleusinian Mysteries, an immensely important and popular cult of Demeter near Athens, and explained how information technology began.  It shows the bonds between mother and daughter, and also the nature (or at least an aspect) of how marital bonds were formed.

Discussion Topics

In that location are two opposing relationships in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: that between Demeter and her daughter Persephone, and that between Persephone and her married man (similar information technology or not) Hades.  Our focus:

Demeter & Persephone:

• What is the primal nature of the mother-daughter bond?

• What will a mother do for her child?  How might Demeter'due south experiences/responses be paralleled in the existent worl (ours or theirs)?

• How does Persephone weight her connection to her mother, in comparison to her relationship with Hades?

Hades and Persephone:

• Hades takes Persephone by violence -- in what ways does this characterize their relationship -- or does it?

• How does Persephone weight her connexion to Hades, in comparing to her relationship with her mother?

Terms and Names

Homeric Hymn	Demeter
Persephone	Hades
Zeus

Tuesday February one

Reading & Overview

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite:  ...

Discussion Topics

...Note: Our first quiz volition be today.  It volition consist of ten quotations from the Iliad and Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and a list of 15 character names to cull from to attribute the quotes.

Terms and Names

Homeric Hymn	Aphrodite
Anchises	Aeneas
Zeus	Eros

Resources

• Summary of Olympian gods and goddesses (scroll down in the center column, unless yous want to read a lot of philosophy)
• Power Indicate on Aphrodite from Dr. D's mythology grade, with visuals

Tuesday February. eight

Reading & Overview

Piece of work due: In lieu of course February 3, practise the ane-page consignment detailed in the Feb. ii electronic mail

Honey, Detest, Gender, Sex (excerpts from dissimilar sources) (read in the lodge below)

• Examples of Heroic Love (a series of accounts of heroic love between men, and descriptions of its virtues)
• Aspasia (an article and a few primary sources about Aspasia, a famous hetaira and married woman or mistress to Pericles, a very influential Athenian statesman)
• Athenaeus on Women (a collection of anecdotes about women, marital relationships, dearest between men, the characteristics and wit of hetairai, and any number of other subjects)

Discussion Topics

Note: There are discussion questions about the Athenaeus reading at the end of the document.  I volition try to clean them upwardly a fiddling and post them hither tomorrow every bit well.

Examples of Heroic Love: What are the central elements of heroic love betwixt men?  What cuases information technology?  What are its effects on the men involved?  Does it (necessarily) have sexual implications, or is that an chemical element that may or may not be there, or is it definitely unsaid, in any or all sources?  Is in that location a substantial deviation in how the different sources talk about love between men?

Aspasia:  What is Aspasia admired for, by her contemporaries?  In what ways is she threatening to the status quo?  In what detail ways is she considered wise?  How do love, sexual activity and politics fit in with the ways her story is told?

Terms and Names

Harmodius	Aristogeiton
Hipparchus	Thucydides
Aristotle	Xenophon
Aspasia	Pericles
Socrates	hetaira
erastes	eromenos
Athenaeus	Deipnnosophistai

http://www2.cnr.edu/dwelling/bmcmanus/oresteia.html

• Power point with images of erotic pursuit, erastes/eromenos relationships, and hetairai (includes some fairly graphic vase paintings)(Note: the one upwardly today does not have labels for the images; I will put up an expanded version Monday with labels for the images)
• Summary of Olympian gods and goddesses (scroll down in the center column, unless you want to read a lot of philosophy)

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