Course Catalog • Classics

A systematic examination of the traditional cycles of Greek myth and their survival and metamorphosis in Latin literature. Some attention is given to the problems of comparative mythology and the related areas of archaeology and history. Slides and other illustrated materials. No knowledge of Latin or Greek is required. Six written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. Instructor: Pamela Gordon.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Euripides. Bacchae, trans. Woodruff, Hackett Publishing, 1998.
• Euripides. Ten Plays, trans. Roche, Signet Classics, 1998.
• Homer. The Essential Iliad, trans. Lombardo, Hackett Publishing, 2001.
• Homer. Odyssey, trans. Lombardo, Hackett Publishing, 2000.
• Homeric Hymns, trans. Ruden, Hackett Publishing, 2005.
• Virgil. The Essential Aeneid, trans. Lombardo, Hackett Publishing, 2006.
• Price and Kearns. Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Woodford. Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Audiobook:

• Audiobook Edition of The Essential Homer, read by trans. Lombardo. Parmenides Publishing, 2006. (As an option, full text recordings of the Iliad and Odyssey are available online.)

Films (on DVD or Videotape):

• The Trojan Women, dir. Cacoyannis, perfs. Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, and Vanessa Redgrave, 1971.
• Medea, dir. von Trier, screenplay Dreyer, 1987.>
  
  (These films are widely available at libraries and bookstores.)