Greek Lyric Poetry (490:309)/2009 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1.10-2.30 PM
Instructor: Timothy Power // e-mail: [email protected] // Office hours in RA 010: T Th 11:30-12:30
Required Text
Greek Lyric Poetry, ed. D.A. Campbell, BCP (1982)
You should by now own or have access to copies of Hansen & Quinn, Greek, an Intensive Course (1992); Liddell & Scott, Abridged Greek-English Lexicon; H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar. If not, all are easily available from Amazon vel sim.
I will occasionally assign short secondary readings as well.
Course Description
We’ll be reading and translating selections from Campbell’s anthology of Greek lyric poetry (a combination of melic, iambic, and elegiac verse). Linguistic and formal issues will command our attention, but we’ll also reserve some time to discuss the poetry’s genre, historical context, performative setting, social function, and oral and written transmission.
Students will be called upon to read the poems in Greek, translate into English, and answer questions about morphology and grammar.
Grading and Requirements
Classroom participation = 20% (class attendance, preparation, contribution) Midterm = 30% (translation of seen passages; questions on syntax and grammar) Final = 30% (translation of seen passages; questions on syntax and grammar; short essay) Short paper = 20% (4-6 pp. analysis of lyric poem of your choice)
Selected Supplementary Reading List
F. Budelmann, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge 2009) A.P. Burnett, The Art of Bacchylides (Cambridge 1985) M. Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 1 (Oxford 1991) B. Gentili, Poetry and its Public in Ancient Greece (Baltimore 1990) G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces (Oxford 2001) D.L. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci (Oxford 1962) = PMG E. Stehle, Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece (Princeton 1997)
Schedule
Weeks 1 and 3 (no class in week 2): Archilochus 1, 2, 5a, 6, 7, 22, 25, 56, 60, 67a, 74, 88, 94, 103; 196A West = S478 Page, in Appendix, pp. 463-464
Week 4: Alcman 1, 26, 27
Weeks 5-7: Sappho 1, 16, 31, 34, 44, 55, 96, 105a, 111, 132, Fr. Adesp. 976 Alcaeus 6, 34a, 42, 129, 326, 346, 347, 357
Week 8: Semonides 7; Hipponax 81, Fr. Chol. Adesp. 1; (midterm on Thursday)
Weeks 9-11: Tyrtaeus 9; Solon 1, 24; Theognis 19-26, 39-52, 53-68, 183-92, 213-8, 237-54, 667-82
Week 12: Anacreon: 348, 356, 357, 358, 360, 396, 417, 96D
Week 13: Mimnermus 1; Xenophanes 2
Week 15: Ibycus 282a
Week 16: Bacchylides 17
Final, Wed. Dec. 23, 12 PM