Daily Schedule
This page will be updated week by week. It is subject to
alteration, so don’t rely on a copy printed out at the beginning of the semester.
Click the link on the date to get the homework for a given
day. Study questions requiring a
written response will be marked with an *asterisk
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Play |
Class topic (click the link for any handouts) |
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Mon. |
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Introduction to course and to ancient Greece |
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Wed. |
Aesch. Agamemnon |
The theater of Dionysus at Athens |
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Fri. |
Aesch. Agamemnon |
Chorus |
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2 |
Mon. |
Aesch. Agamemnon |
Tragedy in action |
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Wed. |
Aesch. Libation Bearers |
Death and burial; ritual and masks |
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Fri. |
Aesch. Eumenides |
Form and meaning; conflict and resolution |
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3 |
Mon. |
Aesch. Eumenides |
Orestes in the dock |
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Wed. |
Soph. Electra |
Myth and originality; the power of words |
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Fri. |
Soph. Electra |
Workshop on producing and translating Greek tragedy |
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4 |
Mon. |
Eur. Electra |
Art and text: visual and literary traditions |
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Wed. |
Soph. Philoctetes |
Character and physis in Greek tragedy |
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Fri. |
Soph. Philoctetes |
Issues in Greek tragedy |
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5 |
Mon. |
Test 1 |
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Wed. |
Eur. Trojan Women |
Guest talk by Noreen Buhmann, Director of Community
Service & Service Learning |
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Fri. |
Eur. Trojan Women |
Euripides’ Trojan Women as a war narrative |
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Mar. 11, Sat. Building Bridges Conference: Holocaust
Survivor Inge Auerbacher gives Keynote address at 11AM; Holocaust exhibit in
Hillstrom Museum of Art, open Sat. - Sun. 1PM- 5PM (free admission) |
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6 |
Mon. |
Eur. Bacchae |
Ecstatic religion; Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy |
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Wed. |
Eur. Bacchae |
Dionysus, god of theater |
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Fri. |
Arist. Frogs |
Introduction to Old Comedy |
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Mon. |
Arist. Frogs |
The contest between Aeschylus and Euripides |
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Wed. |
Arist. Birds |
Cloudcuckooland: utopia, or Athens revisited? |
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Arist. Birds |
Adapting Aristophanes for the modern stage |
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SPRING BREAK - HEAD TO YOUR OWN UTOPIA! |
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8 |
Mon. |
Read assigned scenes |
Strategizing for the Festival of Dionysus |
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Wed. |
Men. Old Cantankerous |
Introduction to New Comedy |
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Fri. |
Men. Old Cantankerous |
Coincidence in New Comedy |
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9 |
Mon. |
Men. The Girl from Samos |
Women in Ancient Greece |
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Apr. 12 |
Wed. |
Test 2 |
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NO FRIDAY CLASS - EASTER BREAK. Memorize lines for your
performance |
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NO MONDAY CLASS - EASTER BREAK |
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Wed. |
Plaut. The Braggart Soldier |
Introduction to Rome - note
adjusted class times for MAYDAY |
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Fri. |
Plaut. The Braggart Soldier |
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11 |
Mon. |
Group rehearsals |
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Wed. |
Plaut. The Brothers Menaechmus |
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Fri. |
Group rehearsals |
Class held in Alumni Hall |
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12 |
Mon. |
Terence Brothers |
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Wed. |
Dress rehearsal 1 |
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Fri. |
Dress rehearsal 2 |
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May 6 Sat. at 3:30 pm: Festival
of Dionysus, Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College |
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13 |
Mon. |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
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May 8 Mon. at 7:30 pm in Confer 127: “Sophocles,
Euripides and Shakespeare: Three Master Playwrights at Work” lecture by James
Morwood, Dean of Wadham College, Oxford |
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Wed. |
Shakespeare Comedy of Errors |
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May 11-14, Thurs - Sun. Gustavus Theatre Department
performs Sophocles’ Electra, directed by Rob Gardner; Thurs., Fri.
& Sat. at 8PM, Sun. at 2PM. |
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Fri. |
Sophocles & O’Neill |
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14 |
Mon. |
O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra |
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Wed. |
Review |
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