GREK 221 (021) Advanced Greek: Homer's Iliad

Jim O'Hara Syllabus Fall 2007

course home page: http://www.unc.edu/courses/2007fall/grek/221/001

1. W Aug 22 intro
2. F Aug 24 read in Greek Iliad 1.1-32
Read Benner pp. 363-88 on Homeric Greek forms
Read soon, casually, online : "Homer" in the Perseus Encyclopedia
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=homer;
"The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age" by John Porter
http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/HomBA.html
"Homeric Society" by John Porter
http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/HomSoc.html

3. M Aug 27 1.33-100 (read Books 1-4 in English by next week)
Read Benner forward by Edwards (pp. ix-xxviii) , Benner pp. 349-62 and 388-97
4. W Aug 29 1.101-147
5. F Aug 31 1.148 –201; read Schein 1-44

M Sept 3 Labor Day no class (long assignments W and F!)
6. W Sept 5 1.202-91
7. F Sept 7 1.292-363; read Nagy 26-41, discuss Books 1-4 (read in English)

8. M Sept 10 1.364-432
9. W Sept 12 1.488-567 (skip 432-487—or not!)
10. F Sept 14 1.1.568-611; read Redfield 3-29, 91-98

11. Mon Sept. 17 Iliad 6.369-439, QUIZ on all Greek read so far

12. Wed. Sept. 19 Iliad 6.440-529; read Arthur article

13. Fri. Sept. 21 Iliad 9.1-78, discuss Books 5-8 (read in English)

14. Mon. Sept. 24 Iliad 9.114-181

15. Wed. Sept. 26 Iliad 9.182-246

16. Fri. Sept. 28 Iliad 9.247-307

17. Mon. Oct. 1 Iliad 9.308-77

18. Wed. Oct. 3 Iliad 9.378-431
discuss Books 9-12 (read in English)

19. Fri. Oct. 5 Iliad 9.432-48, 479-523
(you may do 449-78 if you wish, but Monday is long)
read Martin 146-205

19. Mon. Oct. 8 Iliad 9.600-713

20. Wed. Oct. 10 midterm.

21. Fri. Oct. 12 16.1-82

22. Mon. Oct. 15 16.83-167, 198-220

23. Wed. Oct. 17 16.220b-305
   class report: I. Morris, “The use and abuse of Homer.” abridged in vol. ii pp.52-76 of de Jong (from Classical Antiquity 5 (1986) 81-138)
reporter: Ian

Fri. Oct. 19 No Class, Fall Break

24. Mon. Oct. 22 16.419-507, 663-691 (long assignment!)
   Read Morrison, Homeric Misdirection, pp. 73-108

25. Wed. Oct. 24 16.692-776
   class report: C. Moulton. “Simile Sequences,” vol iii, pp. 351-67 of de Jong from C. Moulton, Similes in the Homeric Poems (Gottingen 1976)
reporter: Catherine

26. Fri. Oct. 26 16.777-867; discuss Books 13-16
   class report 2: Thalmann, W.G., “Thersites: Comedy, Scapegoats, and Heroic Ideology in the Iliad”
TAPA 118 (1988), pp. 1-28.
reporter: Will

27. Mon. Oct. 29 18.1-96
   Read Nagy 94-117, “Lamentation and the Epic”

28. Wed. Oct. 31 18.97-169
   class report 3: Collins, Derek, “Possession, Armor, and the Death of Patroklos,” pp. 131-53 in H. Bloom, ed., The Iliad (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) New York 2007; repr. from Collins, Immortal armor : the concept of Alke in archaic Greek poetry, Lanham, Md., 1998.
reporter: Jamie

29. Fri. Nov. 2 18.170-242
   class report: L Edmonds, “Myth in Homer” pp. 425 -41 in a New Companion to Homer
reporter: Sean

30. Mon. Nov. 5 18.462-508
   class report: Michael Clarke, “Manhood and heroism,” pp. 74- 90 in The Cambridge Companion to Homer. ed. R. Fowler. Cambridge 2004
reporter: Caitlin

31. Wed. Nov. 7 18.509-617
    Read Becker on shield

31. Fri. Nov. 9 22.1-76
discuss Books 17-20
class report: A. Ford, “The Genre of Epic Poetry,” vol. iv, pp. 57-78 of de Jong, from his book
reporter: Thomas

32. Mon. Nov. 12 22.77-161
class report: Hammer, Dean , “Toward a Political Ethic,” pp. 155-79 in H. Bloom, ed., The Iliad (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) New York 2007; repr. from Hammer, The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought. Norman, Oklahoma, 2002
reporter: Tripp

33. Wed. Nov. 14 22.162-247
class report: E.R. Dodds, “Agamemnon’s Apology,” pp. 1-27 of The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley 1951)
reporter: James

34. Fri. Nov. 16 22.248-305
Read Redfield 128-59, “Error”

35. Mon. Nov. 19 22.306-75
Read Nagy 142-50, “The Death of Hector”

Wed. Nov. 21 no class.

36. Mon. Nov. 26 22.437-515
class report: S. Richardson, “Special Abilities [of the Homeric narrator]” vol. iv pp. 432-61 of de Jong, from his book
reporter: Brian

37. Wed. Nov. 28 24.472-551
discuss Books 21-24

38. Fri. Nov. 30 24.552-620
class report: Lateiner, Donald, “Probe and Survey: Nonverbal Behaviors in Iliad 24,” pp. 65-94 in H. Bloom, ed., The Iliad (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) New York 2007; repr. from Lateiner, Sardonic smile: nonverbal behavior in Homeric epic, Ann Arbor, 1995
reporter: Ross

40. Mon. Dec. 3 24.621-91
Read Redfield, 160-223 “Purification,”, esp. 203-22

41. Wed. Dec. 5 Re-read 24 in English, esp. end, sum up

Exam: Friday, Dec. 7, 8:00 a.m.

Paper due: Monday Dec. 10, to my mailbox or office or under the door in my office.