CC 303 Intro to Classical Mythology - Fall 2008
Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Lawrence Kim

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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:

Modern Map of the Mediterranean RegionEastern Mediterranean
Greece and Asia MinorGreece and the Aegean
Sicily, Greece, and Asia MinorPeloponnese
Map of Argonauts' Voyage Part IMap of Entire Argonauts' Voyage
Greece and Asia Minor, Different VersionBLANK MAP (PDF) for Practice
  • Hero Myth Chart
  • Chart of Greek and Roman Gods
  • List of Animal Terms that you may not be 100% familiar with
    • Other Websites:
  • On-line Dictionary of Classical Myth
  • Theoi Greek Mythology Project

    • Reading Schedule

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    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
    Wed, Aug 27: Welcome and Orientation
    • No readings assigned
    Fri, Aug 29: Introduction: What is Myth?
    • Blackboard Course Documents: R. Buxton, "Contexts, Sources, Meanings": pp. 16-41 in The Complete World of Greek Mythology (London 2004).
    Week 2
    M Sept 1: NO CLASS (LABOR DAY)
    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)
    F Sept 5: Prometheus
    Week 3
    M Sept 8: Pandora, Aristophanes' Origin of Love, and the Ages of Man
    W Sept 10:  Zeus/Jupiter/Jove and Hera/Juno (Io and Ovid)
    • Hesiod: Theogony, lines 840-end (pp. 83-87 Hine)
    • Ovid: Met. Book I: Io and Jove, Syrinx (pp. 25-33 Mandelbaum)
    F Sept 12: Apollo
    • 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
    M Sept 15: Artemis/Diana and the Hunt
    • 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)
    W Sept 17: Athena/Minerva and Myths of Divine Punishment
    • Homeric Hymns: XXVIII To Athena (p. 191 Hine)
    • Ovid: Met. Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Latona & the Lycian Peasants, Marsyas (pp. 177-193 Mandelbaum)
    F Sept 19: Aphrodite/Venus
    • 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
    M Sept 22: Hermes/Mercury, Pan, Priapus
    • 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)
    W Sept 24: Poseidon/Neptune, Ares/Mars, Hephaestus/Vulcan
    • 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)
    F Sept 26: Demeter/Ceres and Persephone/Proserpina
    Week 6
    M Sept 29: Hades/Pluto, the Underworld, Orpheus
    • 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)
    W Oct 1: MIDTERM I

    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)
    W Oct 8: Heracles (Part II)
    • Sophocles: Women of Trachis (65-116 Meineck and Woodruff)
    F Oct 10: NO CLASS
    Week 8
    M Oct 13:  NO CLASS

    W 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)
    F Oct 17: Medea
    • 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)
    W Oct 22: Hippolytus, Europa, Scylla and Minos, Daedalus and Icarus
    • 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)
    F Oct 24: Cadmus and Thebes (Tiresias, Echo and Narcissus)
    • 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)
    W Oct 29: Oedipus
    • Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (AKA Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King; NOT Oedipus at Colonus)
    F Oct 31: Antigone, the Seven against Thebes, and the Calydonian Boar Hunt
    • Ovid: Met. Book VIII: The Calydonian Hunt; Althaea & Meleager (pp. 258-270 Mandelbaum)
    Week 11
    M Nov 3:  MIDTERM II

    W 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)
    F Nov 7: The Trojan War: Pre-Homerica
    • 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)
    W Nov 12: The Trojan War: Post-Homerica
    • 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)
    F Nov 14: The Trojan War: The Sack of Troy
    • 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)
    W Nov 19: The Odyssey: Phaeacian Tales, Part 2
    • Homer: Odyssey Books 16 (pp. 378-388 Essential Homer)
    F Nov 21: The Odyssey: Homecoming, Recognition, and Revenge
    • 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)
    W Nov 26: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)

    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)
    F Dec 5: Amazons
    • 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





    Last Updated: 12-04-08 by Larry Kim.