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CC 303 Intro to Classical Mythology 32925 MWF 12-1:00 JGB 2.324 Palaima, Thomas G.

Professor Thomas (Tom) Palaima Department: Classics WAG 123 Mail Code: C3400 Office: Waggener 14AA Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30pm W 10-11:00 am and by appt [email protected] Campus Phone: 471-8837 fax: 471-4111 Dept. 471-5742

Assistant Instructors William (Bill) Farris Dept: Classics WAG 123 Mail Code: C3400 Office: Waggener 11 Office Hours: T 10-11am TH 12:30-1:30pm and by appt [email protected] Campus Phone: NONE fax: 471-4111 Dept. 471-5742

Samantha (Sam) Meyer Department: Classics WAG 123 Mail Code: C3400 Office: Waggener 13 Office Hours: M 9-10am F 1-2pm and by appt [email protected] Campus Phone: NONE fax: 471-4111 Dept. 471-5742

SI sessions: Mondays 5-6pm in CBA 4.330 Thursdays 6-7pm in MEZ 1.210

Supplemental Instruction (SI) consists of weekly voluntary discussion sessions that are aimed at helping students learn and practice study strategies with the course materials. Two sessions are offered each week (while you are absolutely welcome to come to both, you do not need to attend both). These sessions are facilitated by the SI leader, but primarily they are a space for collaborative, student-driven discussion and review. Please let Sam know if you have any questions!

Course Description: is mainly a public performance literature embedded in a still primarily oral culture. mythmakers (the word muthos means simply “something uttered,” i.e., what we call a “story”) used their stories in public settings to make sense of their world and to entertain, instruct, ask questions and provoke discussion among people who lived mainly in “continual fear and danger of violent death, [in historical periods when] the life of man [was] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Thomas Hobbes).

Among these myths are top-ten all-time stories about

—the ironies and savagery, honor and costs of war and the fates of men, women and children in times of war (, Trojan Women); —about exotic adventure, the dangers of travels on the seas, and difficulties most soldiers face in coming home from wars and (the ); —about the creation of the world and about how the gods, who hold the most power within the world and over human beings, have come to be (Theogony); —about hard work, hardships, injustices, political outrages, divine cruelty and why bad things happen to reasonably good people in the world (Works and Days); —about war, murder, justice and vengeance (); —about incest, voyeurism, developing sexuality, defying the restrictions society in general imposes on individuals, ecstatic cults, attempted and actual child murder, patricide, and fate ( Tyrannus and Bacchae); —about politics, religion, and social tensions caused by family obligations, personal morality and state laws (Antigone); —about passion, betrayal, fame, middle-aged anxiety, cross-cultural isolation, suspicion of foreigners, male privilege, the subordination of women, the power of love, vengeance and the murder of young children by their mother (Medea); —about detective fiction, personal fate, the pitfalls of being too damned smart, and hubris (Oedipus Tyrannus); —about the horrid aftermath for victors and the defeated after the siege of a city and the capture of its people (Trojan Women). —and about the meaning of life and of our lives (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning and everything we will read and listen to and discuss this semester).

As in all modern forms of telling stories, “sex, violence, action and mystery sell.”

The Greeks also used music and dance in mythic presentation. All their poems (literally ‘made things’) were performed with music. Compare modern opera, music videos, folk and blues music, YouTube, television commercials, and even sound tracks in motion pictures (including early silent films that were accompanied by live piano playing).

We shall compare the Book of Genesis with Greek creation myths and give some look at modern literature (especially war literature), contemporary events and music from the last 100 years.

THIS COURSE IS NOT DESIGNED FOR YOU ONLY TO LEARN THE BASIC STORIES OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.

IT IS DESIGNED TO GET YOU TO THINK ABOUT HOW THE REALITIES OF HUMAN LIVES ARE REFLECTED IN LONG-LASTING MYTHS AND WHY THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY MIGHT STILL MEAN TO US NOW.

In this course we shall read and discuss the great Greek myths in four ways:

(1) to become familiar with them and how they worked within their culture; (2) to appreciate and enjoy them as great, but accessible works of the human mind and heart, in many cases the first such inventions in the history of human beings; (3) to understand how they worked as tools to explain the world and what most concerns and confuses human beings about their lives. (4) to discuss what they mean for us and our problems—this is, after all, why they still survive and are read or otherwise taken in again and again.

An old professor once told his student, theater director Brian Doerries, “The secret of reading is to close the book.” What does this mean?

We will use modern, but not necessarily contemporary (for you), parallels suggested by my activities as a commentary writer, a general book reviewer, a teacher of ethics and leadership, and a student of the human experience of war and violence and how human beings come to terms with the meaning of life and death. You are invited to think about these ideas and propose your own.

Let us try to remember to ask questions at the beginning of every class. If I do not ask for them, please raise your hand anyway, if you have a question or observation.

BOOKS ORDERED IN COOP:

Stanley Lombardo, , The Iliad (Hackett ISBN 0-87-220352-2 pbk) Emily Wilson, Homer, (Norton ISBN 978-0-393-35625-0 pbk) Stanley Lombardo, , Works and Days and Theogony (Hackett ISBN 0-87220-180-5 pbk)

Peter Meineck, trans. , Oresteia includes Agamemnon Hackett 0872203905 Diane Arnson Svarlien, , Medea (Hackett ISBN 978-0-87220-923-7) Paul Woodruff, Euripides, Bacchae (Hackett ISBN 0-87220-392-1 pbk) Paul Woodruff and P. Meineck, , Oedipus Rex (Hackett ISBN 0-87220-492-8 pbk) Paul Woodruff, trans. Sophocles Antigone (Hackett 978-087220-571-0 2001) H.A. Shapiro, trans. and ed., Euripides. Trojan Women (OUP 9780195179101) Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Beacon Press 9780807014271)

Syllabus, notes, background information, will all be available on CANVAS. Additional primary readings will be available on CANVAS also.

GRADES: We will use +/- grading. WE WILL HAVE IN-CLASS DISCUSSION on SELECTED FRIDAYS.

There will be three in-class examinations. These will be partly short-answer identification and partly essay. These will count for 20% 25% and 25% of your grade.

There will also be four in-class ten-question multiple choice factual quizzes. These will count for 5% 5% 10% and 10% of your grade.

Grade Scale: A 94-100; A- 90-93; B+ 87-89; B 84-86; B- 80-83; C+ 77-79; C 74-76; C- 70-73; D+ 67-69; D 64-66; D- 60-63; F 59 and below.

Disabilities UT Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact SSD at 471-6259, or go to http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/ssd/. Note: students must present a UT "accommodation letter authorizing specific accommodations.” Religious holy days If you need to miss a class or other required class activity, including examinations) for the observance of a religious holiday, you must notify me as far in advance as is possible, preferably at least 14 days in advance, so we can make alternative arrangements for your absence and to complete missed assignments within a reasonable time after the absence. Note: the University's Religious Days Policy is online: http://www.utexas.edu/provost/policies/religious_holidays/ UT Honor Code: “The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community.” Scholastic dishonesty on any graded assignment will result in a grade of F for the course. Scholastic dishonesty includes any kind of cheating or collaboration on tests, or submitting work that is not either your own or not accurately attributed to its source. For more information, contact Student Judicial Services at 471-2841, or go to http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acint_student.php. Late work It is hoped all will go smoothly with the health and lives of all participants in this course. If you take ill or have a medical emergency (including for mental health issues), please email us or talk to us and provide appropriate documentation. If you have personal or family crises or a sudden avalanche of things that have to be done, we shall try to work with you on rescheduling deadlines without too much in the way of penalty. No make ups without sound documentation. Behavioral concerns: If you are worried about someone who is acting differently, you may use the Behavior Concerns Advice Line (BCAL) to discuss by phone your concerns about another individual’s behavior. This service is provided through a partnership among the Office of the Dean of Students, the Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC), the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and The University of Texas Police Department (UTPD). Call 512-232-5050 or visit http://www.utexas.edu/safety/bcal

If needed, take advantage of the counseling services here before problems get out of hand. Or speak to me, so I can help direct you.

TRULY PERSONAL PROFILE PALAIMA

I (Prof. Thomas G. Palaima) am 67 years old. I have been hit by a car and almost lost my leg and had to work my mind back to health over 6 months. I almost lost my right eye in a brush-clearing accident. I was on a plane that had a bomb detonated in its luggage compartment by a man trying to kill his wife and two children whom he had insured for lots of money. I have had three good friends commit suicide. My mother tried to commit suicide when I was a sophomore in high school. I have been married four times and divorced three times.

My wife Lisa and I have three sons between us.

The oldest (25 yrs old) is a math teacher at the Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy. He graduated from the UTeach program in 2016. His wife (23 yrs old), who was born in Vietnam and came to the United States 7 years ago, is now a student at UT Austin.

The youngest (23 yrs old) graduated from the Corps of cadets at Texas A&M in 2018, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army and married to his high school sweetheart Ali in December 2018. He has done Air Assault and Army Airborne training and graduated from tank commander training school in Ft. Benning, GA, in late July.

The middle son (24 yrs old) is a Berklee College of Music graduate and an electronic sound engineer at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He just finished touring the west coast and New Mexico and Idaho with his post-punk-shoe-gazer-metal-Noise band Elizabeth Colour Wheel. The new album they were touring behind Nocebo got 9.5 out of 10 in the review on Metal Injection: https://metalinjection.net/reviews/elizabeth-colour-wheel-nocebo . Of ECW the review said “With the potential to change the face of punk rock, Elizabeth Colour Wheel is the forward-thinking music we need in 2019.” Check it out.

I was born in the old Lithuanian immigrant area of Cleveland and went to Roman Catholic grade school and Jesuit high school and college (Boston College: BA in Mathematics and Classics 1973). So I was around the age of many of you at the time of Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time …. In Hollywood. I remember the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. The Cleveland Plain Dealer broke the graphic pictures of the My Lai massacre during my freshman year in college. The Vietnam War was real in many ways even for those of us who did not serve in the military. Richard Nixon resigned as president just before I began my second year of graduate school. And the day of infamy, President Ford pardoning disgraced President Nixon “for any offenses he might have committed against the United States while president” was forty-five years ago September 9.

I have lived for six months to several years in four European countries and one year in the south Bronx and two and half years in the car-prostitute and drug zone over the Lincoln Tunnel exit in Hell’s Kitchen in NYC, when the Hell was still in Hell’s Kitchen. I have been to Graceland three times, the now defunct Funky Butt jazz joint on Rampart Street in New Orleans twice, Fatfish Blue in Cleveland to hear the late Robert Junior Lockwood four times, the Galapagos Islands, the Great Wall of China, Hattusa in central Turkey, Delphi and Mycenae and Knossos and Athens, up and down the Gaudi cathedral towers in Barcelona a dozen times, behind the old Iron Curtain three times, to Machu Picchu and Teotihuacán. I have spent a night in Desdemona, TX and several in Vernal, Utah (neither recommended). I also really listen to Bob Dylan and think he deserved the Nobel Prize award in literature.

Remember I grew up in CLEVELAND! So no problem you have, big or small, will perplex me. And I have a love for basset hounds and coffee.

SCHOLARLY PROFILE PALAIMA

Tom Palaima developed as an undergraduate a deep passion for ancient , literature, history and culture under the influence of two inspirational mentors, David Gill, S.J. and Carl Thayer, S.J. Since childhood he has been deeply moved by human trauma and how its effects are expressed in human lives. He is certain that these two interests are intermeshed. He is the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics and director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) at the University of Texas at Austin. While a MacArthur fellow (1985-1990), he founded PASP, a research center concentrating on three scripts (Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B) of the prehistoric Aegean area in the second millennium BCE and collaborative study of their texts. PASP has archives of early researchers, especially pertaining to attempts to decipher the scripts (Linear B successfully in 1952). Primary resources include offprints, work notes, correspondence and tablet photographs, all made accessible through systematic finding aids and digitization supported frugally by INSTAP. See the May/June 2019 edition of Archival Outlook, pp. 10 and 22, and https://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/. PASP is now supporting Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of Linear B tablets and other related kinds of inscriptions. Palaima and PASP and its graduate research assistants have been involved with the monograph series Aegeaum, the scholarly journal , and bibliographical databases. PASP regularly hosts visiting scholars for periods of intensive study and teaching. PASP has been digitizing its most important holdings and is now supporting Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of Linear B tablets and other related kinds of inscriptions. Palaima’s work in Aegean prehistory is grounded in the study of the tablets and their texts and cultural contexts. His work has covered many aspects of life in the Mycenaean period: writing and literacy (including doodles); Linear B texts and Homer; scribal administration; feasting rituals; the ideologies of kingship; personal and official naming practices; warfare; religion; phusis, metaphusis, mneme and kosmos; labor mobilization; power manipulation; and larger comparative historical evaluations of Mycenaean palatial culture. Most recently he has been concerned with the wayward and wandering paths taken in the history of scholarship on Mycenaean texts in studying problems like the interpretation of key toponyms, the identification of signs and sign values, and the arsenal of specialties needed to interpret key texts soundly. Palaima has written and lectured widely on human creative responses to war and violence and on music and songs as social commentary. For the past decade he has been actively involved with Aquila Theater and its NEH programs Ancients Greeks/Modern Lives and The Warrior Chorus. He has been a regular contributor of political and cultural commentaries and of book reviews and feature pieces to outlets like the Times Higher Education, Michigan War Studies Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Athenaeum Review. Topics include: the history of American attitudes towards immigrants; the kinds of war stories, poems and songs that appeal to combat veterans, ancient and modern; high command failures at ‘good-shepherding’ from to Tinian to Fort Campbell; intertextuality between and Homer and Bob Dylan and Dalton Trumbo; time and thought in higher education; the miserable shortcomings of the Vietnam summit held at the LBJ presidential library in 2016 (http://www.miwsr.com/2018- 057.aspx ; and the war poems and war writing of Robert Graves, Bill Ehrhart, Wilfred Owen, Tim O’Brien, Joseph Heller, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman and Robert Sherrod. Palaima is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. He has been awarded three Fulbright fellowships (Greece, Austria and Spain) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. He has also won three major teaching awards (2004, 2005, 2019) at UT Austin.

PROFILE FARRIS

Bill Farris is a PhD student in Classical Languages at UT. He holds both a B.A. in Classical Philology and an Masters of Humanities from the University of Dallas. After teaching the Classics (languages, literature, and history) for six years, he has returned to the classroom to continue his studies and is now in the second year of his doctoral program.

PROFILE MEYER

Sam Meyer is a PhD student in the Department of Classics at UT Austin in the field of Classical Archaeology. She received a B.A. from Sewanee: the University of the South, having majored in both Classical Languages and Anthropology. She has excavated at several archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, spanning from the 1st to the 19th centuries CE, and at a Roman villa in Portugal. Her research interests include ancient conceptions of and interactions with the natural world, sacred spaces, and the experiences of non-elite populations in the ancient world. She has a deep love for her feline friends, Cleocatra and PB, and (when possible) gardening.

NOTE: I, Prof. Thomas G. Palaima, reserve the right to change the contents, dates and nature of any and all assignments in this course in keeping with my informed professional judgment, as an experienced and award-winning teacher, of what is in the best interests of students taking this course in any particular semester. Any such changes will be made known in an expeditious manner.

CC 303 Introduction to Classical Mythology 32925 MWF 12 Schedule Palaima Farris Meyers

WEEK 1. 08/28 Orientation; General Aims; General Advice. What is a Myth? Bukowski Poem 08/30 Orientation; General Aims; General Advice. The Muses and the Powers of Music I Bascom Lunsford, “Mole in the Ground” (1928) (1st heard 1901) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- FHUi_M427Y Correct lyrics: http://jkadcock.blogspot.com/2013/03/i-wish-i-was-mole-in-ground.html Betty Soo “Lonesome Whistle” (H. Williams J. Davis 1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyyYCmnQLg8 George Walters “Taka’s Story” Story by Takahiro Shimada (2018) Alberta Hunter “My Handy Man Ain’t Handy No More” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DwXyJIiWE

2. 09/04 The Muses and the Power of Music II Frank Ocean, “Facebook Story” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVoqpXfiPA Michael Franti and Spearhead. “Oh My God” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBq_feHYQ4 Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPnsTRAvIM Briefly explained: https://www.school-for-champions.com/history/start_fire_facts.htm#.XWG5BFB7ll0

09/06 Man’s Search for Meaning. Truth. William Carlos Williams. Bill Ehrhart. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 135-165.

3. 09/09 The historical background to early Greek myths and the oral poetic nature of the Iliad. Cast of characters in the Iliad. . 09/11 The Greek Myth of War. The martial nature of Mycenaean and later Greek society. Lombardo, Iliad, introduction pp. xvii-xlviii. 09/13 Troy to Tinian to Ft. Campbell. https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2016/03/Palaima1.pdf Vonnegut. The concept of the Good Shepherd.

4. 09/16 Iliad, Book 1 Lombardo. The Anger of . Agamemnon, Achilles and Chryses and . . . Apollo. Thetis. . Hera. The Assembly. The gods on Olympus. 09/18 The Dream of Agamemnon and Its Consequences. . Courage and Prowess Afoot. Sacrificial Ritual. Iliad 2.1-464 Lombardo. Reid on Agamemnon’s Dream. 09/20 Discussion Day: Bring QUESTIONS AND IDEAS. Ten-Question QUIZ.

5. 09/23 Catalogue Iliad Book 2 465-997 Lombardo. The . Peterson O’Hare, An Iliad 79-84. Woody Guthrie, “The Sinking of the Reuben James” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZjJsIA1EI https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Sinking_Of_The_Reuben_James.htm Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50p-XScreM 09/25 Iliad, Book 3.1-488 Lombardo. The scene at Troy. The combat between and . The Scene from the Walls. The nature of Helen’s Beauty. What is War Good For? Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley IV https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/hugh-selwyn-mauberley-part-4 09/27 Iliad, Book 6, 1-66 Lombardo. Greek concept of friendship and Greek social relations and codes of conduct in war. Iliad, Book 6, 67-245 Lombardo rallies Greeks. gives good advice. Glaucus and . 6. 09/30 Iliad, Book 6, 246-558 Lombardo. Hector goes inside Troy and meets his mother , his ‘sister-in-law’ Helen, his brother Paris, his wife and his infant son . 10/02 Review Day 10/04 EXAM 1

7. 10/07 Iliad Book 9 1-738 Lombardo. are dispirited. Agamemnon despondent, says publicly in assembly that it is time to give up; Diomedes speaks to the contrary; Nestor judiciously supports Diomedes and proposes that Agamemnon offer a feast and take good counsel from the other leaders. Nestor proposes that Agamemnon offer reparations to Achilles. Agamemnon agrees. An embassy team is chosen consisting of , Ajax and . They each speak to Achilles. The embassy returns and Odysseus and Diomedes speak to the results.

10/09 Iliad Book 16.1-540 Lombardo. The Trojans have the upper hand and are on the verge of destroying the Greek fleet. , Achilles’s second-in-command and truest brother-in- arms proposes a way that the Trojans might be turned away. Patroclus enters battle and turns back the Trojans. (Gk) opposes (Trojan). Sarpedon, a Trojan ally and the favorite warrior of Zeus meets his death. This section and its events are suddenly full of meaningful extended similes. We learn of the way that human fates are decided and the limitations imposed upon the powers even of Zeus. Iliad, Book 16.541-906 Lombardo. Glaucus, stunned by Sarpedon’s death and himself wounded, prays to have his wound staunched. Fierce battle over the corpse of Sarpedon. Zeus deliberates what to do. He has Apollo take Sarpedon’s body away. Later Patroclus leads a charge and drives the Trojans and their allied forces back to the very gates of Troy. Patroclus kills the charioteer . Fierce fighting over his corpse. Then Patroclus is undone.

10/11 Iliad Book 18.1-394 Lombardo. News of Patroclus death reaches Achilles. He is in abject sorrow and guilt over the death of his friend whom he had let act in battle in his own armor. Is Achilles suicidal? Fierce fighting over the body of Patroclus. Iris is sent from the gods to tell Achilles that Hector intends to flay the corpse of Patroclus and impale his head on the palisades of Troy. Achilles, armor-less, nonetheless appears with ’s aegis and shouts out a savage war cry that drives fear into the Trojan allied force. Hector makes a fatal decision.

8. 10/14 Iliad Book 18.395-661 Lombardo. Thetis visits Hephaestus who ‘owes’ Thetis favor for her past good works by him. He manufactures magnificent armor and a shield that Homer describes in the first and arguably greatest ekphrasis in western literature. W.H. Auden, “Shield of Achilles” written in the early 50’s after WW II. 10/16 Iliad Book 21.31-222. 22.1-449 Lombardo. Achilles on a murderous, pitiless, berserker rampage. And Achilles, despite piteous appeals from his father and mother, king and queen Hecuba of Troy, sets himself to face Achilles. In the event he runs and tries to escape. He is tricked by Athena who disguises herself as , come to help Hector. 10/18 Discussion Day Books 9, 16, 18, 21 and 22. Ten-Question QUIZ.

9. 10/21 Iliad Book a. 24.130-342. b. 24.480-757. c. 24.758-831. D. 24.832-860 Lombardo. Priam and Achilles. a. Thetis visits Achilles. Iris visits Priam. We get views of goings on within the Trojan royal family and Priam’s ritual preparations to take gift offerings to Achilles to the corpse of Hector and his prayers. b. The arrival at the Myrmidon camp and the interaction between Priam and Achilles. c. The return of Priam with Hector’s corpse to Troy and the sorrow of Andromache, Hecuba and Helen. d. the burial of Hector. 10/23-10/25 Creation. The Greek gods. Evil in the world. Pandora. Hesiod, Theogony a. 1-115. b. 116- 210. c. 210-232. d. 456-508. e. 509-572. f. 573-725. a. invocation to Muses with reference to Hesiod. b. first gods in natural world, first principle; birth of Kronos and other terrible forces; castration of Ouranos; birth of Aphrodite. c. other early gods. d. Olympians born; swallowed by Kronos, but eventually disgorged. e. Prometheus who outwits Zeus wrt animal sacrifice and wrt fire. f. Pandora is brought into the world to punish human beings for what Prometheus did.

The Book of Genesis. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 20-41. 10/25-10/28 Hesiod, Works and Days. 1-429. Justice and Injustice. A poor man's vision of life: survival, evil and corruption in the world, how to succeed, a close to monotheistic view putting faith in Zeus and hard work. Other readings possible: James Brown, “Like It Is Like It Was.” William Faulkner, “Tomorrow.” Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip. Robert Duvall as Mack Sledge in Tender Mercies.

10. 10/28-10/30 Greek and Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus. The first detective story. Fate. A simple twist of fate. Tragic flaw. Why is this story held in such high regard? What does it tell us about our lives. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 103-115. 11/01 Sophocles, Antigone. The individual, the state and the higher laws of collective and individual human lives. Ann Carson “Ode to Man.” The power of one person. Palaima, “Moral Conscience Is Hard to Come By” AAS 07312016. Palaima, “Alive and Singing the Truth,” The Texas Observer. January 11, 2008. Willie Nelson, “Jimmy’s Road.” 11. 11/04 Other Women, Other Lives Preparation for Agamemnon, Medea, The Trojan Women, Bacchae. Alexandros Papadiamantis, The Murderess. Andrea Yates. Walt Whitman, “I Saw the Vision of Armies.” “Merry Go Round.” “Angel from Montgomery.” Ten-Question QUIZ. 11/06 Review Day. 11/08 Exam 2.

12. 11/11 Euripides, Medea Notions of the and why this fearsome look at a foreign woman’s fatal attraction. 11/13 Euripides, Medea A Dream of Passion. 11/15 Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Terror at Mycenae. The House of Atreus.

13. 11/18 Aeschylus, Agamemnon. A wife and mother's vengeance in a bath tub. 11/20 Euripides, Trojan Women. A tableau of the misery of the defeated. 11/22 Euripides, Trojan Women. Euripides, Bacchae.

14 11/25 Euripides, Bacchae. Sexual repression, ecstatic religion, cults, cross-dressing, voyeurism: all in the family. Ten-Question QUIZ.

15 12/02 Homer, Odyssey. Books 3 and 4. 12/04 Homer, Odyssey. Books 6 and 9. 12/06 Homer, Odyssey Books 22 and 23 and Review.

16 12/09 Exam 3.