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- As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
- Presentations will be given in the class meeting’s that we discuss that reading.
- You also need to submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
- Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirements in the syllabus in terms of length (the length of a 2-3 page essay = ~500-750 words) and expected content (reactive and analytical).
- Pick one reading, then click the button to claim it. If there’s a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one’s already been picked by another student.
- If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, please email me.
- Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-2: Shamhat and Enkidu (New Transcription)
(Present on Thursday, September 1) - Gilgamesh, Tablet 6: Ishtar’s Proposal (New Transcription)
(Present on Thursday, September 1) - Theogony: Hesiod
(Present on Thursday, September 15) - “Agamemnon’s Insult” (from Iliad): Homer
(Present on Thursday, September 22) - “Nausicaa and the Stranger” (from Odyssey): Homer
(Present on Thursday, September 22) - “The Artifice of Penelope” (from Odyssey): Homer
(Present on Thursday, September 22) - The Book of Esther
(Present on Thursday, October 6) - The Book of Ruth
(Present on Thursday, October 6) - Works and Days: Hesiod
(Present on Thursday, October 13) - “Sayings of Spartan Women”: Plutarch
(Present on Thursday, October 13) - from Eumenides: Aeschylos
(Present on Thursday, October 20) - from The Histories: Herodotos
(Present on Thursday, October 20) - from The Bacchae: Euripides
(Present on Thursday, October 27) - “The Women at the Adonis Festival”, from Idylls: Theocritus
(Present on Thursday, October 27)
- from Medea: Euripides
(Present on Thursday, November 3) - from Antigone: Sophocles
(Present on Thursday, November 3) - “The Capture of the Sabine Women”: Livy
(Present on Thursday, November 10) - “The Rape of Lucretia”: Livy
(Present on Thursday, November 10) - selections from Metamorphoses: Ovid
(Present on Thursday, November 17) - “The Twelve Tables”, fragments
(Present on Thursday, November 17) - “Cato on the Oppian Law”: Livy
(Present on Thursday, December 1) - selected letters: Pliny the Younger
(Present on Thursday, December 1) - Roman Accounts of Cleopatra: Plutarch
(Present on Thursday, December 8) - “Advice to the Bride and Groom”: Plutarch
(Present on Thursday, December 8)