SCREENING: O Brother, Where Art Thou (w/George Clooney; dir. Joel Coen, 2000); run time: 1 hr. 46 mins.
(11) Feb. 12: Discussion of O Brother and REVIEW SESSION
Week 5 (Feb. 15-19)
Feb. 15: EXAM #1
Key to multiple choice questions
(12) Feb. 17: Problematizing the issues (such as the Trojan War): Greek tragedy
Lecture 12 images
Reading: Morkot 58-59; Sophocles, Oedipus (in Course Packet)
SCREENING: Iphigenia (1977); run time: 2 hrs., 7 mins.
(13) Feb. 19: Greek drama on and off the screen
EXAMS WILL BE RETURNED AND DISCUSSED TODAY. Please pick them up.
Week 6 (Feb. 22-26)
(14) Feb. 22: Hercules
Lecture 14 Images
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Reading: Morkot 60-61; Kirk, Myth, 252-261 (in Course Packet); "Herakles" (in Course Packet)
(15) Feb. 24: Updating Hercules
Lecture 15 Images
SCREENING: Hercules (Disney 1997); run time:
1 hr., 33 mins.
(16) Feb. 26: Hercules - discussion; Timeline: Greece in the fifth century
Week 7 (March 1-5)
(17) March 1:
Greece
in the 5th century: Athens
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Reading: Morkot 62-85
(18) March 3:
Greece
in the 5th century: Athens and Sparta compared
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Reading: "Sparta" (in Course Packet); "Thermopylae" (in Course Packet)
SCREENING: 300 (2007); run time: 1 hr., 57 mins.
(19) March 5: QUIZ; Straight from the Comic Book: Leonidas as the Brave Contra and Xerxes as the Bondage Queen
KEY TO QUIZ
Week 8 (March 8-12)
(20) March 8: What starts here changes the world (for real) - Alexander the Great - I
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Reading: Morkot 106-125
(21) March 10:
Alexander the Great - II
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Reading: "Alexander the Great" (in Course Packet)
SCREENING: Alexander (w/Colin Farrell; dir. Oliver Stone, 2004); run time: 2 hrs., 47 mins.
(22) March 12: A better way to do Alexander? Also, review session
Week 10 (March 22-26)
PLEASE PICK UP COURSE PACKET #2 FROM ABELS COPIES.
March 22: EXAM
#2
Key to MC questions
(23) March 24: On to Rome - historical survey
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Reading: Kamm 1-11, 101-127
SCREENING: Spartacus (w/ Kirk Douglas, dir.
Stanley Kubrick; 1960); run time: 3 hrs., 17 mins.
(24) March 26:
Spartacus: historical context and modern message
Reading: "Spartacus" (in Course Packet, 1-29); materials on slavery and freedmen (in Course Packet, 31-42)
EXAM #2 WILL BE RETURNED TODAY
Week 11 (April 5
- 9)
(28) April 5: Caesar and Cleopatra in real life and the movies
Lecture 28 Images
Reading: “Cleopatra” (in Course
Packet)
(29) April
7: The Ben Hur Phenomenon
SCREENING: Ben Hur (1959); run time: 3 hrs. (thru the chariot race) tonight; remainder screened Apr. 9.
(30) April 9:
Remainder of Ben Hur screened in class
Week 12 (April
12 - 16)
(31) April 12: Hollywood's favorite emperors and the world of Ben Hur; review session
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(32) April 14:The Passion of the Christ: the controversy. Christ on the screen and
the Romans as heavies
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Reading: The four New Testament accounts of the passion (= the suffering) of Jesus Christ (in Course Packet;)
Mel Gibson's take on the movie (on web)
SCREENING: The
Passion of the Christ (dir. Mel Gibson, 2004); run time 2 hrs., 6 mins.
April 16: EXAM
#3 (will not include Lecture 32 and related materials)
Key to MC questions
Lecture at 4 PM in MEZ 1.306: Prof. Peter Wiseman (J.K. Rowling's teacher at the Univ. of Exeter) on
"Historical memory in Rome: Theory and Practice"
Week 13 (April 19 - 23)
(33) April 19:
The
Passion of the Christ and the Roman Context
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Reading: Kamm 74-100; "The Historical Figure of Jesus" (in Course Packet)
(34) April 21: Romans and Christians
SCREENING: The Da Vinci Code (2006); run time: 2 hrs., 29 mins.
(35) April 23: Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci Code
Reading: Course Packet: "Beginnings" (from Christianity and Roman Society); Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, chapters 55, 56, 58; "The Other Gospels"
Week 14 (April 26-30)
(36) April 26: Discussion of Da Vinci Code; quiz preparation
Bring Course Packet and Kamm, The Romans, to class
(37) April 28: QUIZ; Good emperors and
gladiators
Lecture 37 Images
Answer key
SCREENING: Gladiator (2000); run time: 2 hrs., 35 mins.
(38) April 30: All you ever want to know
about gladiators
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Reading: “Gladiators and Games” (in Course Packet)
Kamm, pp. 63-73, 182-190
Supplementary Images
Roman Religion
Isis
Pax Romana
Recent books on Rome and America
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