Literature Fall 2011

Your first assignment is to read How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig and answer the attached study questions before our first class, Thursday, September 8.*  We will meet at the Center for Christian Studies, 302 N. Johnson (a block behind the OLD First Baptist Church).  We will usually meet at 11:30, but the first class will be in the afternoon. Here is the schedule for the semester.

Ancient Lit Syllabus

Class   Date                            Topic and Assignment (to be read in advance of class)

1.  September 8                                    Susan Shaeffer Macaulay, How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig

[No Class Sept 13]

2.  September 20                                  Hamilton, Mythology, chapters 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, and 14

                                                            This book is available EVERYWHERE—library, used book stores, online.  We will be reading only portions, so don’t pay a lot.  The edition or format does not matter

3.  September 27                                  Homer, The Iliad, Books I - III (trans. Robert Fitzgerald

                                                            I want everyone to have the Fitzgerald translation.

4.  October 4                                       Iliad, Books, IV - VI

5.  October 11                                     Iliad, Books VII - X

[No Class October 18]

6.  October 25                                     Iliad, Books XI - XVI

7.  November 1                                    Iliad, Books XVII – XX

8.  November 8                                    Iliad Books XXI - XXIV

9.  November 15                                  Sophocles, Oedipus Rex .(trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics).

                                                            I would like everyone to have the Fagles translation, but the particular edition is not important.  We will be reading Oedipus Rex and Antigone from this collection.  I will be looking for some used copies for everyone; if you want only new, let me know

10.  November 22                                Sophocles, Antigone

* USUALLY, we will meet on Tuesdays from 11:30 to 1:00 at the Center for Christian Studies, 302 N. Johnson, MP.  Our first meeting will be Thursday, September 8 (as of right now, from 3:00 to 4:30, but the time is subject to change).