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| syllabus (JBVS) |
| study guide [Prof Dunkle] |
| "Exile
& Return: Classical & Caribbean Epic"
[JVS course] |
| Vocabulary
Building:
[JVS course] |
| environment |
| e-mail:
jvsickle @brooklyn. cuny.edu |
TIME CHART: click for a model you may download & fill up as we read on
| First samples of classical culture: [Sappho] >< [ Catullus]><[Shield of Achilles] Homer, Iliad: the shield's thematic divisions charted |
| Homer, Odyssey 9.82-148:"Lotus Eaters & Cyclopes" [Features of Greek (Hellenic) culture imagined as lacking in its Cultural Opposites.] |
| Virgil
Aeneid
1.572-677:
Aeneas
secretly observes the founding of Carthage
[Rome's culture like yet unlike Greek: infer features from an imagined visit by the mythical ancestor of the Romans to the site of Rome's greatest historical enemy.] |
| [herodotus to come] |
| Thucydides
[thoo SIH dih dees],
The War with the Peloponnesians.
"City Cultures in Conflict" [click for assignments & study aids] |
| Sophocles [soph- 'clever' + cles (kles) 'famed for']: Antigone [441 produced] |
| Aristophanes: Lysistrata[415 produced] |
| Aeschylus Prometheus: unsorted links. |
| Plato, two approaches to the Apology of Socrates click here or click here (Plato & Homer) , or click here for the Guide to the Republic. |
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