CLASSICS 0.1
Fall 2002
"Exploring Greco-Roman Comedy"
Six Lectures,
Three Wednesdays/Three Mondays
1 Credit
No Prerequisite
12:15 to 1:50 PM
3139 Boylan
Lectures
Orientation Meeting: Wednesday, September 4
in 3139 Boylan at 12:00 noon
Wednesday, September 18: "Comedy
and Politics in Aristophanes' Knights"
Professor Edward
Harris
Monday, September 30: "Poets
in Hell: Comic Criticism in Aristophanes' Frogs"
Professor Hardy
Hansen
Wednesday, October 23: "Women
Strike for Peace: Aristophanes' Lysistrata"
Professor John
Van Sickle
Monday, November 4: "A Funny Thing
Happened: Plautus' The
Braggart Soldier"
Professor Roger
Dunkle
Wednesday, November 20: "Comic Confusion:
Plautus' The
Brothers Menaechmus"
Professor Roger
Dunkle
Monday, December 2: "Husbands,
Wives, and Slaves in Plautus' Casina"
Professor Craig
Williams
Go to the "Introduction
to Greek and Roman Comedy" site
for important background .
Required Texts
Aristophanes: Four Comedies, translated by Dudley Fitts, Harcourt
Brace.
Aristophanes, The Knights, Peace, The Birds, The Assemblywomen,
Wealth, translated by D. Barrett & A.H. Sommerstein, Penguin.
Plautus, Four Comedies, translated by Erich Segal, Oxford.
Plautus, The Darker Comedies, translated by J. Tatum, Johns
Hopkins.
THESE BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE BOOKSTORE AS OF
9/4/02.
Reading Assignments
Read relevant play before each lecture.
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 December 9 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.
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).
Hardy Hansen: HHansen@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Edward Harris: edharris@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Roger Dunkle: rdunkle@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Craig Williams: craigw@brooklyn.cuny.edu
John Van Sickle: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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