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
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