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Week Three

Schedule for Week Three

Reading in preparation for Tuesday's class: Chapter 8, Artemis

Tuesday, July 30th: Aphrodite and Eros

Lecture: The Symposium

 

Reading for Wednesday: Chapter 8 again, with special attention on Euripides' Hippolytus

Wednesday, July 31st:

Discussion Artemis and of the Hippolytus

 

Reading for Thursday: Review Chapters 1-8 for midterm exam

Thursday, August 1st: Midterm Examination

 

Reading for Monday: Chapter 9, Apollo

Monday, August 5th: Apollo

Discussion: Why is it that Apollo can't get a girl, but crowds of girls

follow Dionysos around the Mediterranean? The Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy

according to Frederich Nietzche

 

Reading for Tuesday: Chapter 10, Hermes

Discussion of Text

Hermes in Virgil's Aeneid and

Ovid's Metamorphoses

 

 

 

Dionysos Maenad Apollo