GENERAL INFORMATION ON CLAS 4375:

GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

(HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE CREDIT; WOMEN STUDIES ELECTIVE)

GOALS OF THIS COURSE
SCHEDULE      LIST OF BOOKS
TESTS AND QUESTIONNAIRES
WEBPAGE FOR MORFORD&LENARDON
COURSE RESOURCES ONLINE
 WEB RESOURCES FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES


Instructor: Prof. Dora C. Pozzi (Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages). Prof. Pozzi's Office: 660 AH. Departmental Office: 413 AH. Phone number: Leave a message at 713-743-3076. Please indicate when I can find you at your number. I check my messages every day, including weekends. You may also e-mail questions.  Conference hours: By appointment.

Course Format: Lectures and discussion. I will illustrate many topics with visuals from several websites. I strongly recommend that you read the assignments before each class.

THIS IS A CLASS FOR ALL MAJORS. NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREEK CIVILIZATION OR OF MYTHOLOGY IS ASSUMED. PREREQUISITE: ENGL 1304

Course Requirements:

ATTENDANCE is required. Students with more than FOUR absences will be dropped, unless those absences were caused by a serious reason they can document in writing.

TESTS: There will be a midterm and a final exam.

WRITING IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THIS COURSE. The midterm and the final will include one or more essay questions. Students will be expected to turn in the answers to questionnaires that will be posted periodically and listed on the schedule.

STUDENT RESEARCH: Students will do specific guided research on the web, prior to discussion sessions or in order to answer the questionnaires.  Honors students, majors in Classical Studies,  graduate students in other fields, and undergraduates who have taken CLAS 3306, 3307, or 3308 before, will have special assignments.

FINAL GRADE: midterm, 30%; final, 30%; written assignments, 30%; class participation, 10%.


LIST OF BOOKS

REQUIRED[1]:

1) Cartledge, Paul. The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-289147-2
2) Prometheus Bound and other plays, transl. Philip Vellacott, Penguin Classics, 1976. ISBN: 0140441123
3) Hesiod, Works and Days,The Theogony, transl. S. Lombardo, Hackett. ISBN 0-8-7220179-1
4) Aristophanes, Lysistrata, transl. D. Parker. Penguin Mentor. ISBN 0-451-62495-5
5) Euripides One: Four Tragedies (Alcestis, Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus), University of Chicago Press,1990.
SBN: 0226307808
6) Euripides Three: Four Tragedies (Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion)  University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0226307824.
RECOMMENDED:
Mark P. O. Morford & Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN: 0471368911[2]
[1]  The ancient texts, i.e. all of these titles except #1, may be read on the web (in Perseus and other sites).  The online translations, however, because they must be out of copyright, are usually old-fashioned in style and outdated in scholarship.  There will be copies of the required texts on reserve in the library.

[2]   The publisher of this textbook has posted a condensed version online, intended to be a companion to the book.  See the link on top of this page.  Used copies of prior editions are less valuable; students are advised not to use any edition earlier than the 5th.  A copy of this book will be on reserve.