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September 26genre and genderreadings: Iliad Books 17-22; Felson, N. and L. Slatkin, “Gender in theHomeric Poems” Ch. 7 in The Cambridge Companion to Homer, ed.Fowler, R. (2004).recommended: Loraux, N. "Le Lit, la guerre," L'Homme 21.1 (1981) 37-67, transl. as "Bed and War" in The Experiences of Tiresias, trans. P.Wissing (Princeton: 1995) 23-43.October 3pity and the audiencereadings: Iliad 23-24; Weil, S. The Iliad or the Poem of Force tr.McCarthy, M. (Paris: 1939)recommended: Rutherford, R. “Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad”, Ch.8 in Oxford Readings in the Iliad, ed. D.L. Cairns (Oxford: 2002);cautiously recommended: Slatkin, L. “Notes on Tragic Visualizing in theIliad”, Ch. 1 in Visualizing the Tragic, edd. J. Elsner, C. Kraus, et al.(Oxford: 2007).October 10before and beyond the Iliadreading: Aeschylus, Agamemnonrecommended: Zimmerman, B., Greek Tragedy: An Introduction(Baltimore 1991), 1-25; Goldhill, S. Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge:1986) 1-32, 57-78October 17 In-class written exercise –reading: Aeschylus, Libation Bearers and Eumenides2
October 24sacrifice transformedreading: Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulisrecommended: Zeitlin, F., "Art, Memory, and kleos in Euripides'Iphigenia in Aulis," in B. Goff, ed., History, Tragedy, Theory (1995)October 31theorizing Greek tragedyreading: Aristotle, Poetics http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.htmlNovember 7drama and desirereading: Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ed. A. Dawson (Cambridge:2003) (R)recommended: Cook, C., “Unbodied Figures of Desire”, Theatre Journal 38(1986) 34-42November 14fidelity, heroism, and the femalereading: Racine, Andromache, translation by R. Wilbur (New York: 1982)of Andromaque (1667)recommended: Barthes, R. On Racine, transl. by R. Howard (New York:1964) of Sur Racine (Paris: 1960) 3-26, 72-81November 21comic Troy -- NO CLASS, but…reading: Giraudoux, J., Tiger at the Gates, transl. by Christopher Fry (1955)of La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu [“The Trojan War will not takeplace”] (Paris: 1935)November 28Iliadic traces in our time3
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