Hampden-Sydney College

CLAS 202: Classical Mythology                 Spring 2008
TTh 2:30-3:50                                                Morton 112

Dr. Janice Siegel
jsiegel@hsc.edu (email is best bet for contacting me)
Office: Maples 04
Office Phone: 223-7204
Office Hours: Tuesday 1-2, W/F 10-10:30 and by appt.
(I am in my office most afternoons after 4, so feel free to stop by, too)
http://www.drjclassics.com

COURSE SCHEDULE

Reading Assignments are to be completed for the day specified. Response papers are assigned on that day’s topic but DUE the following class period. Study guides for the reading assignments may be found on the course Blackboard site. You are expected to have each day’s reading assignment completed before coming to class.

T Jan 17: Introduction to The Study of Classical Myth

T Jan 22: Chapter 1 (Interpretation and Definition of Classical Mythology

read: Procne, Philomela and Tereus (Met. 6.401-674)

Th Jan 24: Chapter 2 (Historical Background of Greek Mythology)

            read: on-line article on Troy and Homer

 T Jan 29: Chapter 6 (Nature of the Gods) response paper #1 (due Jan 31)

Th Jan 31: Chapter 3 (Myths of Creation) and Chapter 4 (Zeus’ Rise to Power)

T Feb 5: Chapter 5 (The 12 Olympians: Zeus, Hera and Their Children)

read: Baucis and Philemon (Met. 8.611-724), Jupiter and Callisto: (Met. 2.401-530)Jupiter and Europa: (Met. 2.833-75), Jupiter and Ganymede (Met. 10.155-161)

Th Feb 7: Chapter 7 (Poseidon, Sea Deities, Group Divinities, and Monsters)

read: (Hera) Latona (Met. 6. 313-381) and (Hera) Io, Argus, and Mercury (Met. 1.568-779)

T Feb 12: Chapter 8 (Athena/Minerva) and Chapter 9 (Aphrodite/Venus and Eros/Cupid)

read: Arachne (Met. 6.1-145)
response paper #2 on in-class video (due Feb 14)

Th Feb 14: Love in Extremis:

read: Byblis and Caunus (Met. 9.454-665), Iphis and Ianthe (Met. 9.666-797), Orpheus and Eurydice (Met. 10.1-85 and 11.1-84), Cyparissus (Met. 10.86-142), Pygmalion (Met. 10.243-297), Myrrha and Cinyras (Met. 10.298-502), Venus and Adonis (Met. 10.503-739), Acis and Galatea (Met. 13.749-897)

T Feb 19: Chapter 10 (Artemis/Diana)

read: Actaeon (Met. 3.138-252) and Niobe (Met. 6.146-312)

Th Feb 21: Chapter 11 (Apollo/Apollo)

read: Apollo and Delphi (Met. 1.416-451), Daphne and Apollo (Met. 2.1-400), Apollo and Hyacinthus (Met. 10.162-219), Marsyas (Met. 6.382-400)
response paper #3 (due Feb 26)

T Feb 26: Chapter 12 (Hermes/Mercury)

Th Feb 28: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

T March 4: Chapter 13 (Dionysus/Bacchus, Pan, Echo, and Narcissus)

Th March 6: House of Thebes (Met. 3.1-733)

read: Midas (Met. 11.85-193)

SPRING BREAK: March 11- March 13

T March 18: Chapter 14 (Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries)

read: Rape of Persephone (Met. 5.341-571) and Erysichthon (Met. 8.725-884)
response paper #4 (due March 20)

Th March 20: Chapter 15 (The Realm of Hades) and Chapter 16 (Orpheus and Eurydice: Mystery Religions in Roman Times)

T March 25: Chapter 17 (The Theban Saga)

Th March 27: Chapter 18 (The Mycenean Saga)

T April 1: Chapter 19 (The Trojan Saga)

read: Debate for the Arms of Achilles (Met. 13.1-398), The Sorrows of Hecuba (Met. 13.399-575), and Memnon (Met. 13.576-622)

Th April 3: Chapter 20 (The Odyssey)
response paper #5 (due April 8)

T April 8: Chapter 21 (Perseus and the Legends of Argos) 

Th April 10: Chapter 22 (Heracles)

read: Met. 9.1-272-323

T April 15: Chapter 23 (Theseus)

read: Medea (Met. 7.1-424) and Theseus (Met. 7.425-end and 8.1-182)

Th April 17: Chapter 24 (Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts)
response paper #6 on in-class video (due April 22)

T April 22: Chapter 25 (Myths of Local Heroes and Heroines)

read: Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs (Met. 11.210-535) and The Calydonian Boar Hunt (Met. 8.260-546)

Th April 24: Chapter 26 (Roman Mythology and Saga)

read: The Rape of Lucretia and the Rape of the Sabines (handouts from Ovid’s Fasti) and Pomona and Vertumnus (Met. 14. 623-771)

T April 29: Presentations of Special Projects