FINAL EXAM GUIDELINES AVAILABLE HERE
NEW! Answer Key to Midterm 1: .pdf file .doc file
NEW! Answer Key to Midterm 2: .pdf file .doc file
NEW! Another Blank Practice Map. This one covers more area than the other one.
MAP for the Final Exam HERE
This map should have nearly everything you need to know for the exam (for exceptions, see guidelines)
Maps, Charts, Study Aids, etc.
Every book assigned for the course has a relevant map except for Euripides Ten Plays. Here are some other resources on the web:
Other Websites:Hero Myth Chart
Chart of Greek and Roman Gods List of Animal Terms that you may not be 100% familiar with
On-line Dictionary of Classical Myth Theoi Greek Mythology Project
Reading Schedule
Abbreviations:
- Hine = Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, trans. Hine. Chicago.
- Mandelbaum = Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Mandelbaum. Harcourt.
- Essential Homer = The Essential Homer, trans. Lombardo. Hackett.
Note: Lecture outlines are linked to the appropriate lecture
titles. There you will also find relevant images and key terms that you
will be required to recognize.
Week 1
- No readings assigned
- Blackboard Course Documents: R. Buxton, "Contexts, Sources, Meanings": pp. 16-41 in The Complete World of Greek Mythology (London 2004).
Week 2
No readings assigned.
W Sept 3: The Beginning: Uranus, Cronus, Zeus
- Hesiod: Introduction (pp. 1-19 Hine); Theogony, lines 1-478; 586-839 (pp. 53-71; 74-83 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book I: The Creation (pp. 3-6 Mandelbaum)
- Hesiod: Works and Days, lines 1-102 (pp. 23-26 Hine); Theogony, lines 479-585 (pp. 71-74 Hine)
- NEW: Web Reading: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound: Prometheus and the Invention of the Arts
- Web Reading: Plato, Protagoras: Prometheus and the Creation of Humans
- Ovid: Met. Book I: The Giants, Lycaon, The Flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha (pp. 9-19 Mandelbaum)
Week 3
M Sept 8: Pandora, Aristophanes' Origin of Love, and the Ages of Man- Hesiod: Works and Days, lines 103-235 (pp. 27-31 Hine)
- Web Reading: Plato, Symposium: Aristophanes' Speech on the Origin of Love
- Ovid: Met. Book I: The Four Ages (pp. 6-8 Mandelbaum)
- Hesiod: Theogony, lines 840-end (pp. 83-87 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book I: Io and Jove, Syrinx (pp. 25-33 Mandelbaum)
- Hesiod: Theogony, lines 1-111 (pp. 53-57 Hine) [Repeated from W Sept 3 reading]
- Homeric Hymns: III. To Apollo (pp. 115-121 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book I: Python, Apollo and Daphne, Phaethon, Hyacinthus (pp. 19-25; 33-49; 332-334 Mandelbaum)
Week
4
- Homeric Hymns:XXVII. To Artemis (p. 190 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book II: Callisto, Book III: Actaeon; Book X: Atalanta (pp. 52-58; 81-86; 349-354 Mandelbaum)
- Homeric Hymns: XXVIII To Athena (p. 191 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Latona & the Lycian Peasants, Marsyas (pp. 177-193 Mandelbaum)
- Homeric Hymns: V. To Aphrodite (155-166 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book X: Pygmalion, Cinyras and Myrrha, Adonis (pp. 335-349; 354-356 Mandelbaum)
Week 5
- Homeric Hymns: IV. To Hermes (135-154 Hine); XIX. To Pan (181-182 Hine)
- Homer's Odyssey (NOT Iliad): Beginning Book 5 (pp.269-272 Essential Homer); beginning Book 24 (p.466 to line 16 Essential Homer)
- Ovid: Met. Book I: Pan and Syrinx, Book IV: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, Book XI: Midas (pp. 30-31; 120-124; 362-367 Mandelbaum)
- Homeric Hymns: VIII. To Ares (170 Hine); XX. To Hephaestus (183 Hine); XXII. To Poseidon (185 Hine)
- Homer's Iliad (NOT Odyssey): Book 18 (lines 504-661 (in trsl.)) = pp.183-187 Essential Homer
- Ovid: Met. Book I: Mars, Venus, Vulcan & the Sun (pp. 115-16 Mandelbaum)
- Homeric Hymns: II. To Demeter (98-114 Hine)
- Ovid: Met. Book V: Ceres and Proserpina (pp. 159-173 Mandelbaum)
- online resource: Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades,19
- online resource: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 6.6 (only ch. 27-28)
Week 6
- Homer: Odyssey 11 (lines 596-675 = pp. 349-351 Essential Homer)
- Ovid: Met. Book X and XI: Orpheus & Eurydice, Book XI: Ceyx and Alcyone (pp. 325-331; 359-361; 374-393 Mandelbaum)
F Oct 3: Perseus and Bellerophon
- Homer: Iliad 6 (lines 120-245 = pp. 70-73 Essential Homer)
- Ovid: Met. Book IV and V: Perseus (pp. 133-155 Mandelbaum)
Week 7
M Oct 6: Heracles (Part I)- NEW: Web Reading: Apollodorus, Library of Mythology: Heracles' Early Life and the Labors
- Ovid: Met. Book IX: Achelous & Hercules; Hercules, Deianira, Nessus; Hercules & Deianira (pp. 287-299 Mandelbaum)
- Sophocles: Women of Trachis (65-116 Meineck and Woodruff)
Week 8
M Oct 13: NO CLASSW Oct 15: Jason and the Argonauts
- Ovid: Met. Book VII: Jason and Medea (pp. 209-223 Mandelbaum)
- Apollonius of Rhodes: The Voyage of Argo (42-45; 52-60; 67-72; 77-82; 119-160)
- Euripides: Medea (334-390 Roche)
Week 9
M Oct 20: Theseus and the
Minotaur- Ovid: Met. Book VII: Theseus & Aegeus; Book VIII: Daedalus, the Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne (pp. 226-228; 253-254 Mandelbaum)
- Euripides: Hippolytus (46-99 Roche)
- Ovid: Met. Book II: Europa & Jove; Book VIII: Scylla, Nisus, Minos; Daedalus & Icarus; Daedalus & Perdix (pp. 71-73; 247-253; 254-258 Mandelbaum)
- Ovid: Met. Book III: Cadmus; Tiresias; Narcissus & Echo; Cadmus & Harmonia (pp. 77-81; 89-97; 131-133 Mandelbaum)
Week 10
M Oct 27: Dionysus- Homeric Hymns: VII. To Dionysus (pp. Hine)
- Euripides: Bacchae (pp. 392-456 Roche)
- Ovid: Met. Book III: Semele; Pentheus (pp. 86-89; 97-106-Mandelbaum)
- Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (AKA Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King; NOT Oedipus at Colonus)
- Ovid: Met. Book VIII: The Calydonian Hunt; Althaea & Meleager (pp. 258-270 Mandelbaum)
Week 11
M Nov 3: MIDTERM IIW Nov 5: Some Pretty and Not So Pretty Myths
- Ovid: Met. Book IV: Pyramus & Thisbe; Book VI: Tereus, Procne, Philomela; Book VIII: Erysichthon (pp. 111-115; 193-204, 277-283 Mandelbaum)
- Euripides: Alcestis (pp. 3-43 Roche)
- Homer: Iliad Books 1, 3, 6, 9 (pp. 1-19, 28-42, 69-82, 92-106 Essential Homer)
Week 12
M Nov 10: The Trojan War:
Homer's Iliad- Homer: Iliad Books 15-16, 22, 24 (pp. 141-174, 205-221, 230-240 Essential Homer)
- Ovid: Met. Book XII: The Death of Achilles (pp. 421-424 Mandelbaum)
- Sophocles: Philoctetes (pp. 188-252 Meineck and Woodruff)
- Homer: Odyssey Book 4 (pp. 255-269 Essential Homer)
- Ovid: Met. Book XIII: Ajax, The Fall of Troy, Polyxena & Hecuba, Aurora & Memnon (pp. 445-455 Mandelbaum)
Week 13
M Nov 17: The Odyssey: Phaeacian
Tales- Homer: Odyssey Books 8-12 (pp. 294-365 Essential Homer)
- Homer: Odyssey Books 16 (pp. 378-388 Essential Homer)
- Homer: Odyssey Books 18-19, 21-23 (pp. 399-465 Essential Homer)
Week 14
M Nov 24: The
House of Atreus: Oresteia- Euripides: Electra (pp. 165-213 Roche)
F Nov 28: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
Week 15
M Dec 1: NO
CLASS (Thanksgiving)W Dec 3: Myth, Romance, and Burlesque
- Ovid: Met. Book XIII: Galatea & Acis (pp. 460-467 Mandelbaum)
- Euripides: Cyclops (pp. 515-545 Roche)
- Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (pp. 279-331 Roche)
- No Readings Assigned
F Dec 12, 2:00 - 5:00 PM: FINAL EXAM (provisional)
Final will take place in our regularly scheduled classroom
See the UT Registrar for up-to-date Final Exam Information, HERE