Week
3 (Jan. 31 - Feb. 2)
(5) Jan.
31: The Odyssey and its
times
Lecture
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»» Reading: Odyssey,
Books 1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 22, 23 (and as many more on your
own as you’d like); Morkot 48-55
(6) Feb. 2: QUIZ; Odysseus
(Ulysses) &Co.; from Homer to the
screen: action/adventure, characters, or both?
Lecture
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KEY
to QUIZ #1
MOVIE:
The Odyssey
(w/ Armand Assante et al., 1997); run time: 2 hrs. 53
mins.
The movie can be streamed from youtube (Greek subtitles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOYPBCYFOKA
Questions
to Consider; cf. Ulysses (1954) w/ Kirk Douglas
Week 5 (Feb. 14 - 16)
Feb. 14: EXAM #1
KEY
to MC Part of Exam #1
(9) Feb. 16: Problematizing
the issues (such as the Trojan War): Greek tragedy
Lecture
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»» Reading: Morkot 58-59; Sophocles, Oedipus (in Course
Packet)
MOVIE: Iphigenia (1977); run
time: 2 hrs., 7 mins.
Week 6
(Feb. 21 - 23)
(10) Feb. 21: Hercules
- EXAMS WILL BE
RETURNED TODAY. PLEASE PICK YOURS UP.
Lecture
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»» Reading: Morkot 60-61; Kirk, Myth:
3 Basic Types (in Course Packet, pp. 129-135);
"Herakles" (in Course Packet, pp. 137-171)
(11) Feb. 23: Updating
Hercules
Lecture
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MOVIE:
Hercules
(Disney 1997); run time: 1 hr., 33 mins.
Week 7 (Feb.
28 - March 1)
(12) Feb. 28:
Greece
in
the
5th century: Athens and Sparta
Lecture
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»» Reading: Morkot
62-85
(13) March 1: QUIZ;
Straight
from
the
Comic Book: Leonidas as the Brave Contra and Xerxes as the
Bondage Queen
Lecture
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»» Reading: "Sparta"
(in Course Packet); "Thermopylae" (in Course Packet)
KEY
to QUIZ #2
MOVIE:
300
(2007); run time: 1 hr., 57 mins.
Week 8
(March 6 - 8)
(14) March 6: What
starts here changes the world (for real!): Alexander
the
Great
Lecture
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»» Reading: Morkot
106-125
(15) March 8: Alexander
the
Great,
cont'd
Discussion: A
better way to do Alexander?
Lecture
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»» Reading:
"Alexander the Great" (in Course Packet)
MOVIE:
Alexander
(w/Colin Farrell; dir. Oliver Stone, 2004); run time: 2 hrs.,
47 mins.
Week 9 (March 20 - 22)
**PLEASE PICK UP COURSE PACKET #2 FROM ABEL'S COPIES**
(16)
March 20: On
to
Rome
- historical survey; REVIEW
SESSION
Lecture
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»» Reading: Kamm
1-11, 101-133
March 22: EXAM #2
Key to MC
part of Exam #2
MOVIE:
Spartacus
(w/ Kirk Douglas, dir. Stanley Kubrick; 1960); run
time: 3 hrs., 17 mins.
Week 10 (March 27 - 29)
(17) March 27: Spartacus: historical
context and modern message
»» Reading: "Spartacus"
(in
Course
Packet); materials on slavery and freedmen (in Course Packet)
(18) March 29: Caesar,
Cleo,
and
their times
Lecture
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»» Reading: Kamm
37- 60; Suetonius, Julius
Caesar (in Course Packet)
EXAM #2 WILL
BE RETURNED TODAY.
MOVIE: Cleopatra
(w/Eliz. Taylor,
Richard Burton; dir. J. Mankiewicz, 1963); run time: ca. 4
hrs.
Week 11
(April 3 - 5)
(19) April
3: Caesar
and
Cleopatra
in real life and the movies
Lecture
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»» Reading: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar; "Cleopatra"
(in
Course Packet)
(20) April 5: The
Ben
Hur
Phenomenon
MOVIE: Ben Hur (1959) (w/ Charlton Heston; dir. W. Wyler; run time: 3 hrs. 42 mins.)
Week 12
(April 10 - 12)
(21) April 10: Hollywood's
favorite
emperors
and the world of Ben Hur; review
session
Lecture 21 Images
April 12:
EXAM #3
Key
to MC Part of Exam #3
»» Reading:
"The Historical Figure of Jesus," in Course Packet
Week 13
(April 17 - 19)
(22) April 17: The Passion of the Christ and the Roman
Context
Lecture
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(23) April 19: The Passion of the Christ,
the controversy: Christ on the screen and the Romans as
heavies
Lecture
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EXAMS WILL BE RETURNED TODAY.
»» Reading: The four New Testament accounts of the passion (=
the suffering) of Jesus Christ (in Course Packet); Kamm
74-100.
MOVIE: The Passion of the Christ
(dir. Mel Gibson, 2004; run time 2 hrs., 6 mins.)
Week 14 (April 24 - 26)
(24) April 24: Good
emperors
and
gladiators
Lecture
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(25) April 26: Gladiator and its
American resonances
Lecture
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»» Reading: "Gladiators and Games" (in
Course Packet); Kamm, pp. 63-73, 182-190
MOVIE: Gladiator (2000; run time 2 hrs., 35
mins.)
Week
15 (May
1 - 3)
(26) May
1: QUIZ; End
games; preview of Test IV;
course evaluation
KEY TO QUIZ #3
May 3:
EXAM #4
Supplementary Images & Resources:
Isis
Pax
Romana
Recent
books
on
Rome and America
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