Title: LITERARY CLASSICS

PRQ:

_{We will read 12 literary classics (in their entirety or selections) from Sumerian/Babylonian, Greek, and Roman antiquity focusing 1) on their histories and their formal and thematic similarities and differences and 2) how the cultural, historical mythic, religious, philosophical, political, social, personal, and psychological dimensions of each work have informed western heritage and remain relevant for our own lives.}

^{1) Regular attendance and class participation; 2) Three (3) out-of-class essays;  3) Occasional in-class response papers;  4) Additional extra credit work as agreed upon.  The three papers (and any extra credit) are worth 50 percent of the final grade. Attendance is worth 25 percent of the final grade. Participation and response papers are worth 25 percent of  the final grade.}

Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation  Bearers, and Eumenides); Sophocles, The Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus); Euripides, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women; Virgil, Aeneid