Spring 2019 Schedule
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Topic |
Reading Assignments |
Lecture Notes
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Additional Related Links
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Week 1
1/7-1/11 |
General Intro
The First Epic |
Wed: Syllabus,
Course Req. Etc.
Fri: Epic Of Gilgamesh |
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Week 2
1/14-1/18 |
Epic Of Gilgamesh and The Hebrew Bible |
Mon: Epic Of Gilgamesh
Wed: Genesis 1-3 "The Creation and Fall" and
Genesis 6-9: "Flood" (pp 39-46) (9th: 110)
Fri: Genesis 17-19 "Abraham" (pp 47-51); Leviticus
17-20 Online |
Complete Jewish History Timeline
Hyperhistory Interactive Timeline
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Week 3
1/21-1/25 |
The Bronze Age: Homer:
The Iliad and The Odyssey |
Mon: MLK Day No Class Wed: Catch up
Fri: Job 1-9 (pp. 66-92 ) (9th: 152-)
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Iliad & Odyssey Historic Background and
Maps |
Pronunciation Guide
Minoan Eruption |
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Week 4
1/28-2/1 |
The Bronze Age: Homer:
The Odyssey |
Mon: Iliad Book I (pp 107-122) (9th:
189-204)
Wed: Skim Reading The
Iliad; Read Iliad Book
XVI-XVIII (pp 155-163) (9th:232-258); Book XXIV
(pp 186-199) (9th: 271-290) Achilles
Questions 2
Fri: The Odyssey Books I-III (pp
206-235); Book V-VII (pp 260-287) (9th:
291-319) |
Extra Credit Films:
Extra Credit Listening:
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Week 5
2/4-2/8 |
The Bronze Age: Homer:
The Odyssey
Classical Origins:
Tragedy |
Mon: The Odyssey Books VIII-IX (pp
287-302 to line 45); Books X-XI
(pp315-344)
Wed: Books XIV (pp366-378) (9th:
pp447-459); Book XVIII (pp 417-428) (9th:
500-511(Beggar King)
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Othering (PowerPoint) |
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Week 6
2/11-2/15 |
Classical Origins:
Tragedy |
Mon: Test 1: Ancient
Wed: Classical Greeks, Intro to Tragedy. First,
read Reading
Aeschylus. Agamemnon (8th 506-519
(to line 480) and 540-550) (9th: pp 614-627 and
pp 649-659) Agamemnon
Questions
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Helpful back-story:
Extra Credit "Retribution" |
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Week 7
2/18-2/22 |
Classical Origins:
Tragedy |
Mon: No Class -- Holiday Wed: Hamartia. Listen to two podcasts. Either listen to this podcast or read it here AND “The hidden biology behind everything we do”
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Backstory: Necklace of Harmonia
Extra Credit Tragedy: |
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Week 8
2/25-3/1 |
Classical Origins:
Plato |
Mon: Oedipus Rex (All of it)
Wed:
In class film Far
From Men Fri: In class film Far From Men |
Extra Credit Socrates:
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Week 9
¾-3/8 |
Classical Origins:
Plato |
Mon:
Plato Socrates Apology pp 762-775 or online
here; Socrates
Questions
Wed:
Plato The Republic (Allegory of the Cave) pp 817-Finish or online
here
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Greek Technology:
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Week 10
3/11-3/15 |
BREAK |
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Week 11
3/18-3/22 |
Romans and Christians
Moorish Roots of the Renaissance |
Mon: Lucretius, 838-847 (9th: 48-53); Ovid Book
V "Ceres and Proserpina" (pp 1041-1049, lines
506-870) (9th 1109-1117)
Wed: Luke 2 "Birth" and Mathew 5-7 "Sermon On
The Mount"; Mathew 26-28 "Betrayal, Crucifixion,
Resurrection""pp 1085-1097 (9th: 1052-1165) or Latimore
Translation Matthew 26-28 Fri: Bible continued |
Interpreting The Christian Bible
Christ and the Christian Bible
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The Jefferson Bible:
Extra Credit Films:
PBS In
the Footsteps of Paul |
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Week 12
3/25-3/29 |
Moorish Roots of the Renaissance
Early Renaissance |
Mon:
Wed: 1,001 Nights "Merchant and Demon" thru"Third
Old Man's Tale" (9th 1756-1767)
The Thousand and One
Nights Questions
Fri:
Test 2 |
Moorish Influence on
the Renaissance
and Scientific Revolution
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Week 13
4/1-4/5 |
Mon: Intro to Middle Ages/Arthurian Legends.
Start The Story of the Grail pp 1328-1354
(9th: 1428-1486) Grail
Questions
Wed: The Crusades. Finish Grail 1354-1374 (9th
1487-1529) Fri:
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Kohlberg's Stages of
Moral Development
Pentagram/Pentangle
Reynard |
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Week 14
4/8-4/12 |
Late Middle-Ages,
Early Renaissance
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
Mon: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight Fitts 1
and II
Wed: Finish Sir Gawain and The Green Knight Sir
Gawain Questions Fri: The Renaissance Intro Lecture |
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Cool Dantean Sites:
Extra Credit Film: Seven |
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Week 15 |
Late Middle-Ages,
Early Renaissance
Chaucer (1340-1400) |
Monday: Inferno: Cantos:
Wed: Chaucer The Miller's Tale pp
1718-1732 or online: The
Miller's Tale;
Start The Wife of Bath's Prologue Fri: The Wife of Bath's Prologue pp 1732-1749 and The Wife of Bath's Tale pp 1749-1756 Online: Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
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Extra Credit Films: |
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Week 16 |
Renaissance |
M: Columbus 2505-2509 (9th: 2514-); Cortes
2510-2520 (9th: 2521-2531)
W: Don Quixote: Prologue and Ch. 1-5
F: Don Quixote: Ch.5-14, |
Don Quixote: Science, Sanity & The First Novel |
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Week 17
4/29-5/3
Week 18
5/6-5/10 |
Renaissance |
Mon: Don Quixote: Part 1: Ch. 18, Ch.22; Part 2:
Prologue, Ch. 64, 65 & Ch. 74
Test 3: Renaissance |
