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Schedule for Week Four
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
Tuesday, August 6th: Hermes
Discussion of Text
Hermes in Virgil's Aeneid and
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Lecture: Tragedy according to Aristotle
Reading for Wednesday: Chapter 11, Dionysos,
Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy handout
Wednesday, August 7th: Dionysos
Discussion : The Bacchae : Deny me and be doomed
We will be reading parts of the play in class so bring your books.
Analysis of Bacchae according to Aristotelian criteria
Further discussion on the Apollonian/Dionysian principles
Reading for Thursday: Chapter 12, Eleusinian Mysteries
Chapter 14, Orpheus
Thursday, August 8th: Demeter, Eleusinian mysteries
Lecture: What we know about the mysteries
Comparison : Orphism
Reading for Monday: Chapter 13, the Underworld
Be able to note the differences among representations of the underworld in the following texts (the appropriate portions of which are included in your book):
Plato's Republic, The Myth of Er
Homer's Odyssey, Book 11
Virgil, Aeneid, Book 6
Monday, August 12th: The Underworld
Discussion/Comparison of versions of the underworld
  
Dionysos Maenad Apollo
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