Classical Mythology (260-0-1)

Instructors

Marianne Hopman
847/491-8361
Kresge Hall 4361
Office Hours: Tu/Th from 3:30-4:30pm

Meeting Info

University Hall 102: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM

Overview of class

Drawing on a vast repertoire of gods' and heroes' names, narrative motifs, and plot patterns, ancient Greek storytellers developed myths that circulated throughout antiquity in a variety of media and continue to inspire creative artists today. This course offers an introduction to the major figures and plots from Greek myths. In
the first half of the term, we will study various representations of the major Greek gods across time, space, and storytelling genres. In the second half, we will focus on stories connected to the Trojan War and its aftermath as narrated in the two epic poems transmitted under the name of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in Athenian tragedy.

Class Materials (Required)

Trzaskoma, Stephen and Smith, R. Scott. _Anthology of
Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation_ 2nd ed.
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016. ISBN
978‐1624664977.

Lombardo, Stanley, ed. _The Essential Homer_
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. ISBN
978‐0872205406.

Melville, A. D., transl. _Ovid, Metamorphoses_ Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0199537372

Sommerstein, A., transl. _Aeschylus, The Persians and
Other Plays_ Penguin Classics, 2010. ISBN 978-0140449990.

Taplin, O., transl. _Aeschylus, The Oresteia:
Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens_
New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2018. 978-0393923285

Morwood, James, transl. _Euripides: Bacchae and Other
Plays_ Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
ISBN 978-0199540525

Morwood, James, transl. _Euripides: Medea and Other
Plays_ Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
ISBN 978-0199537969

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro
SoC Individual and Social Behavior Distro

Associated Classes

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-410: Fri 10:00AM - 10:50AM

DIS - Kresge Centennial Hall 2-410: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM