CLASSICS 0.1

Spring 2002

"Exploring the Odyssey"

NOTE ADVICE ON ANSWERING ESSAYS ON FINAL BELOW!

Six Lectures, Three Wednesdays/Three Mondays

1 Credit

No Prerequisite

12:15 to 1:50 PM

3139 Boylan
 


 
 

Lectures
 

Orientation Meeting: Wednesday, January 30
in 3139 Boylan at 12:00 noon

Wednesday, February 6: "Ingenuity in the Odyssey"
Professor Roger Dunkle

Monday, February 25: "Odysseus as a Post-War Hero"
Professor Hardy Hansen

Wednesday, March 13: "Adventures of Gender and Identity in Homer's Odyssey"
Professor John Van Sickle

Monday, April 1: "Odysseus the Lion-Hearted"
Professor Donna Wilson

Wednesday, April 17: "Homer's Odyssey and the Origins of Greek Slavery"
Professor Edward Harris

Monday, April 29: "Odysseus: Seeker of Cities"
Professor Christopher Barnes

Required Text

Homer, Odyssey, translated by Richmond Lattimore (Harperperennial)

Reading Assignments

Read the whole Odyssey by the second lecture (February 25).  There are also specific selected books and passages from the Odyssey that are required for each lecture.  They will be listed below as individual lecturers submit them.  The number before the period represents the book (i.e., chapter), while the numbers after the period refer to lines:
 

  1. Dunkle (February 6th): 4.244-258, 5.244-261, 8. 266-366 and 492-496, Book 9 (complete), 13.291-415.
  2. Hansen (February 25th): Books 5, 6, 8 (complete), 11.465-566, 19.505-604, 23.153-287, 24.1-97 and 412-548.
  3. Van Sickle (March 13th): Books 8, 9, 10, 11 (all complete).
  4. Wilson (April 1st):  4.332-40, 6. 127-36, 9. 216-412, 17.124-31, Book 22 (complete).
  5. Harris (April 17th): Books 14 and 15 (complete).
  6. Barnes (April 29th): 1.3 and 95-305, 3.1-11 and 385-403, 4.1-93, 5.1-115, 6.1-10 and  251-315, 7.14-132, 8.530-586, 9.1-151, 10.1-243, 12 (complete), 13.185-216.

Attendance

Attendance in a course that meets only six times a semester is crucial.  You are therefore required to attend all six lectures and to stay for all of each lecture.  You can miss one lecture without penalty, but documentation of your excuse must be provided. Missing more than one lecture will reduce your final grade one full level (e.g., B+ > C+).  Chronic lateness and leaving early will be penalized.

This Web Site

Please consult this course's web site regularly to see if there are any announcements (e.g.,  a change in the date or location of a lecture).  Notes will be posted after each lecture is given.  Look for lecture titles as links.

Final Exam

The final examination will take place on May 13 from 12:00-2:00 in 3139B.  The exam will consist of six essays (one on each lecture), of which you are required to answer three.  The best answers will be those that show a knowledge of both the lectures and the text of the Odyssey.  Be sure to support your answers with references to specific evidence from the Odyssey.
 

Please turn off your cellular phone and /or pager
before entering the classroom.

Didn't have the opportunity to ask the lecturer a question about something you didn't understand or would like to know?  Here are the e-mail addresses of the six lecturers.  Just click on addresses below to send your question (or comments).

Christopher Barnes: CBarnes@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Hardy Hansen: HHansen@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Edward Harris: edharris@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Roger Dunkle: rdunkle@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Donna Wilson: dwilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu
John Van Sickle: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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