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Spring 2011 LLT 121.999                                                                                                                                9:30 am, 119 Siceluff
Instructor: J. A. Johnson
Office: 105 Siceluff                                                            Office Hours: 9-noon Monday, 8:45-9:15 am and 12:15-1:15 TTH
Office Phone: 836-5122 and by appointment
E-mail: JulieJohnson@missouristate.edu Electronic Contact – Email checked daily am & pm

Texts:
Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated by Rolfe Humphries (Indiana U. Press)
Homer, Odyssey, translated by W.H.D. Rouse (Signet Classic)
      Plus various handouts

Online Texts:
Euripides, Medea at http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/euripides/medea.htm
Euripides, Hippolytus at http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/hippolytus.html

Films: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Medea, Phaedra, (perhaps, Black Orpheus)

Schedule	Study Guide
Syllabus

 

                                                                                           Tentative Schedule
Date                                                                                                                                                 Class Reading Assignments

Wk 1 Greetings & Overview        Greek Myth                                                                                Ovid – pp 3-27
(Jan 11/13) Ovid & Homer; Cosmogonies                                                                                   (Creation – Jove & Io)
 Greek Creation      Olympians - Children of Cronus     Olympians - Children of Zeus   Hesiod's Ages of Man        
          Text of Hesiod            Daphne
            
Wk 2 Man vs. Beast    Ovid - Wk 1         Ovid - Wk 2        Debussy's "Syrinx"                                    Ovid – pp 28-54
(Jan 18/20) Theories of Myth – as primitive science     7 Deadly Sins                                            (Phaethon – Goddess Envy)
                      7 Deadly Sins

Wk 3 Theories of Myth – religious explanations    Britten piece Ovid: Bacchus                                        Ovid – pp 54-80
(Jan 25/27)       Ovid - Week 3    Ovid - Week 3b      Based on Euripides' Bacchae              (Europa – Pentheus & Bacchus) 
                 Gentle Bull                           Dionysus

Wk 4 Test 1 – 3rd      Ovid - Week 4       Intro P&T   Pyramus and Thisbe   P&T                Ovid – pp 81- 100-                                                              Sisyphus 1      Sisyphus 2  
(Feb 1/3) Midsummer Night’s Dream                                                                       (Daughters of Minyas – End of Cadmus)

Observe what Shakespeare does with Ovid's tale:

      Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOzDfCOXFc

      Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyjvYSXeZQY

Wk 5 Heroes   Ovid - Week 5                                                                                                Ovid – pp 100-133
(Feb 8/10) Film: Clash of the Titans                                                                                 (Perseus – Minerva’s tales)

Wk 6 Moral Compasses – cultural values/gender roles      Ovid - Week 6              Ovid – pp 133 - 152
(Feb 15/17)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQVTBrd6sc        (Niobe – Tereus, Procne, Philomela) Persephone & Hades: Rules of the Underworld   Philomela - Raising the Wind 

Wk 7 Legends and Heroes   Structure of Tragedy                                   Ovid – pp 153 - 167
(Feb 22/24) Film: Medea                                                                               (Jason & Medea)
Themes of play: Greek vs Barbarian; Women vs Men; Love vs Hate          Euripides' Medea
                               µέτρον άριστον   Greek Theater   
                 Ovid - Week 7        Medea as Jason leaves her - opera 

  Theseus & Minotaur    

Wk 8 Mythic dysfunctional families     Ovid - Week 8                            Ovid – pp 167 -- 200

(Mar 1/3)  Icarus       Icarus

                       (War with Crete – Brand of Meleager)

           

 

 

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Wk 9 Film: Desire Under the Elms                                               Ovid – pp 200-204, 209-219

(Mar 15/17) Themes: Women vs Men; Greek vs Barbarian; Love vs Hate; god vs god         (Baucis & Philemon, Hercules)

        Ovid - Week 9      Week 9b                                                         Euripides' Hippolytus

       Hippolytus in ‘The Thorn Birds’     Hippolytus poem     Phaedra 1962   Hipp.

 Dying 1962