Accelerated Beginners Ancient Greek 2

GRE 1131 - Section: 4613 - MTWRF 5th period & MTWR 6th period - TUR 2336 - Summer B

Syllabus

Instructor: Eleni Bozia
Department of Classics
Room: Dauer 133
bozia@ufl.edu

Required texts:

Optional Material:

Grading:
Participation 20%
Homework 10%
Quizzes 20%
Exams (Wednesday July 6, Friday July 15, Wednesday July 27) 30%
Final Exam (Friday August 5) 20%

Course Approach:
During our sessions we will be translating and discussing Medea in order to reinforce grammatical and syntactical concepts and improve your reading skills. You will also learn about Greek Drama and its basic principles. Some secondary scholarship will be consulted to gain an overview of the Greek literary tradition of this era. Once a week one of you will have to make a short (2 paragraph) presentation in class on an aspect of the text we will be covering at the time. You may choose your area of interest for that assignment. Every day there is going to be a quiz covering what we discussed during the previous session. There are going to be three non-cumulative exams. Your attendance is mandatory.

Calendar:

Grammatical Notes and Texts to Download:

Further Bibliography:

     Ancient Greek Theater:
1.      P. Arnott, Greek Scenic Conventions in the fifth century B.C. (Oxford, 1962)
2.      L. Aylen, The Greek Theater (London and Toronto, 1985)
3.   E. Csapo and W. J Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (Michigan, 1995)
4.   K. J. Dover, 'The skene in Aristophanes', PCPS n.s. 12 (1966), 2-17
5.   K. J. Dover, 'Portait-Masks in Aristophanes', in K.J Dover (ed.), Greek and The Greeks (Oxford, 1987), 267-287
6.   S. D. Goldhill, 'Reading Performance Criticism', G&R 36 (1989), 172-181
7.   E. W. Handley, 'Aristophanes and his Theatre', in Aristophane, Entetriens Haardt 38 (1993), 97-123
8.   K. MacLeish, The Theatre of Aristophanes (Bath, 1980)
9.   H.J. Newiger, Drama und Theater (Stuttgart, 1996)
10.  A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens (Oxford, 1968)
11.  A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens (Oxford, 1946)
12.  E. Simon, The Ancient Theater (London/New York, 1982)
13.  O. P. Taplin, The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford, 1977)
14.  O. P. Taplin, Comic Angels (Oxford, 1993)
15.  D. Wiles, 'Reading Greek Performance', G&R 34 (1987), 136-151

Medea:

1. G. Arnott, 'Euripides and the Unexpected', G&R n.1 (1973), 49-64

2. F. Bessone, 'Medea's Response to Catullus: Ovid, Heroides 12.23-4 and Catullus 76.1-6', CQ 45 ns 2 (1995), 575-578

3. E. M. Blacklock, 'The Nautical Imagery of Euripides' Medea', CPh 50 n4 (1955), 233-237

4. E. B. Bongie, 'Heroic Elements in the Medea of Euripides', TAPA 107 (1977), 27-56

5. A. Burnett, 'Medea and the Tragedy of Revenge', CPh 68 (1973), 1-24

6. J. J. Clauss and S. Iles, Medea: essays on Medea in myth, literature, philosophy and art (Princeton, 1997)

7. M. P. Cunningham, 'Medea Apo Mhxanhs', CPh 49 n3 (1954), 151-160

8. E. R. Dodds, 'Euripides the Irrationalist', CR 43 n3 (1929), 97-104

9. P. E. Easterling, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1997)

10. J. H. Finley, Three Essays on Thucydides (Harvard, 1967)

11. S. Flory, 'Medea's Right Hand:Promises and Revenge', TAPA 108 (1977), 69-74

12. S. E. Harry, 'Medea's Waxing Wrath', AJP 51 n4 (1930), 372-377

13. V. Knight, 'Apollonius Argonautica 4.167-70 and Euripides' Medea', CQ 41 ns1 (1991), 248-250

14. M. R. Lefkowitz, 'Impiety and Atheism in Euripides' Dramas', CQ 39 ns1 (1989), 70-82

15. L. M. Mead, 'A Study in the Medea', G&R 12 n34 (1943), 15-20

16. S. P. Mills, 'The Sorrows of Medea', CPh 75 n4 (1980), 289-296

17. J. Morwood, Euripides (Oxford, 1997)

18. H. Musurillo, 'Euripides' Medea: A Reconsideration', AJP 87 n1 (1966), 52-74 

19. M. Shaw, 'The Female Intruder: Women in Fifth Century Drama', CPh 70 n4 (1975), 255-266 

20. P. T. Stevens, 'Euripides and the Athenians', JHS 76 (1956), 87-94

21. K. Weitzmann, 'Euripides Scenes in Byzantine Art', Hesperia 18 n2 (1949), 159-210