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Ancient Hero(In)Es and Modern Society COM6212 1 Department of Comparative Literature and Culture School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Epic Remakes: Ancient Hero(in)es and Modern Society COM6212 Module convenor: Dr Annabel Cox, [email protected] Lecture: Tuesdays, 1-2pm Seminars: Tuesdays, 2.30-3.30pm or 4-5pm Office hours: by appointment Content description: This module will investigate how some key Greek mythical figures have been adapted, from antiquity to today, to suit new contexts. How have these ancient Western characters been repurposed to contemporary social debates? Drawing on artistic media, films and recent poetry, in addition to literary translations and adaptations, we will focus on characters, mortal and divine, from the Trojan War myths. These will include Briseis, Helen, Circe, Penelope, Achilles, Patroclus and Odysseus. Analysis will focus on issues of identity and representation, including from intersectional and postcolonial perspectives, and with the intention of raising awareness of how divergences between source and adaptation can perpetuate, or challenge, implicit bias and ideological assumptions. All texts will be studied in English. However, there will be some linguistic support (no prior knowledge assumed) to enable students to engage with some of the choices regarding vocabulary, syntax, and poetic metre, so that translations can be assessed with an eye to the original ancient Greek. Module aims: 2 1) To introduce students to some of the key challenges in reworking Ancient Greek literature, especially in terms of its political and social implications 2) To make students aware of the significance of specific strategies and linguistic choices adopted in retellings, translation, adaptations and cultural transfer 3) To explore the relationship between textual retellings of Ancient Greek literature and other areas of cultural production, in antiquity and today Learning Outcomes: Students will gain knowledge of: 1. Key aspects of adaptation of texts from Greek antiquity and scholarly theories surrounding these ‘afterlives’ (classical reception) 2. The relationship between classical Greek antiquity and successive adaptations 3. The broader cultural impact of classical Greek antiquity within and beyond Europe Weekly schedule: Week Lecture Seminar Readings 1 Introduction to module Origins and traits of the epic ‘Bk XI’, Epic of Gilgamesh genre Puchner chapter (on QM+) 2 The Iliad - background Characterisation of Achilles The Iliad, start of Bk I, trans. Butler The Iliad, various extracts from Bk I, trans. Fitzgerald 3 The Iliad cont’d: Briseis Briseis, Briseis and Achilles Barker’s The Silence of the Girls - extracts Miller’s Song of Achilles, extracts Film of Troy (2004) 4 The Iliad cont’d: Achilles and Achilles and Patroclus Miller’s The Song of Achilles Patroclus – extracts, Fry’s Troy - ‘Pseudo-Achilles’ extract Barker’s The Silence of the Girls - extracts 5 The Odyssey - background Odysseus The Odyssey, Wilson Essay 1 workshop translation – extracts The Odyssey, Rieu translation, extracts Essay 1 questions 6 The Odyssey cont’d: Circe Circe The Odyssey ‘Book X’, through the ages Wilson translation Sotheby ‘Book X (302-44) The Moly Flower Saves Ulysses from Circe’s Spell’ Miller’s Circe – extract Gunn’s ‘Moly’ 3 7 Reading week 8 The Odyssey cont’d: other Penelope and the Maids The Odyssey, Wilson female characters translation – extracts Sanford Pinsker ‘Penelope’s Reply’ Attwood The Penelopiad – extracts 9 Ancient Greek Additions to Women and war in Ancient The Women of Troy, Homer Greece Euripides - extracts 10 Rewriting Homer: Achilles/Achille, Hector, The Iliad, Fitzgerald trans - Postcolonialism Helen extracts Walcott’s Omeros - extracts 11 Rewriting Euripides and Women and war in C19th The Women of Owu, Femi Homer: Postcolonial Feminism Nigeria Osofisan - extracts 12 Conclusions Final essay workshop Essay questions Assessment: 1500 word essay, due by 11.55pm on Thursday 11 March 2021 2500 word essay, due by 11.55pm on Thursday 08 April 2021 Essay questions available on QM+ Primary texts: Anon. (2000) The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation trans. by Andrew George, London: Penguin Classics. Attwood, Margaret (2007) The Penelopiad: The Play, London: Faber and Faber. Barker, Pat (2018) The Silence of the Girls, London: Penguin/Random House. Euripides (2001) The Trojan Women and Other Plays, trans. James Morwood, intro. Edith Hall, Oxford: World’s Classics. [415BC] Fry, Stephen (2020) Troy, London: Penguin/Random House. Gunn, Thom (1996) ‘Moly’ in George Steiner, ed. Homer in English, London: Penguin, pp. 285-86. [1971] Homer (2019) The Iliad of Homer Rendered into English Prose for Those Who Cannot Read the Original, trans. Samuel Butler, Project Guttenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2199/2199-h/2199-h.htm>, accessed 11 January 2021 [1898] Homer (1984) The Iliad, trans. Robert Fitzgerald, Oxford: World’s Classics. [1974] Homer (1946) The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu, Harmondsworth/New York: Penguin. Homer (2020) The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson, New York/London: Norton. 4 Miller, Madeline (2012) The Song of Achilles, London: Bloomsbury. Miller, Madeline (2019) Circe, London: Bloomsbury. Osofisan, Femi (2006) The Women of Owu, Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. Peterson, Wolfgang (2004) Troy Pinsker, Sanford (1996) ‘Penelope’s Reply (With Apologies to Tennyson)’ in George Steiner, ed. Homer in English, London: Penguin, pp. 319-20. [1974] Sotheby, William (1996) ‘Book X (302-44) The Moly Flower Saves Ulysses from Circe’s Spell’ in George Steiner, ed. Homer in English, London: Penguin, pp. 142-43. [1834] Walcott, Derek (1992) Omeros, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Secondary Reading: Introductions to Greek and Roman myth Clark, Matthew. Exploring Greek Myth 2012. Edmunds, Lowell, ed. Approaches to Greek Myth 2014. Fry, Stephen. Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece 2017. Fry, Stephen. Heroes 2018. Fry, Stephen. Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold 2020. Glick, Andrew. 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