Fall 2008
Lectures
Lecture Meeting: Friday 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
Fall 08 Lecture Schedule
Spring 09 Lecture Schedule
Section Meetings:
1) TTH 9:00-10:15 Jane Levin
2) TTH 2:30-03:45 Anthony Kronman
4) MW 9:00-10:15 Brian Reilly
5) MW 2:30-03:45 Claude Rawson
6) TTH 2:30-03:45 Corinne Pache
7) TTH 1:00-02:15 Irene Peirano
Texts (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street)
Homer, Iliad, Robert Fagles, trans. (Penguin)
Homer, Odyssey, Robert Fagles, trans. (Penguin)
Aeschylus, Oresteia, Alan Shapiro and Peter Burian, trans. (Oxford)
Sophocles, Antigone, David Grene, trans. (University of Chicago)
Euripides, The Medea, Rex Warner, trans. (University of Chicago)
Virgil, Aeneid, Robert Fitzgerald, trans. (Vintage Classics)
Ovid, Metamorphoses, A.D. Melville, trans. (Oxford)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, RSV (Oxford)
Dante, Divine Comedy, 3 vols., Allen Mandelbaum, trans. (Bantam Classics)
Week 1 of September 1
Homer, Iliad
E. Bakker
Week 2 of September 8
Homer, Iliad
Lecture (September 12) J. Levin
Week 3 of September 15
Homer, Odyssey
Lecture (September 19) C. Pache
Week 4 of September 22
Homer, Odyssey
Lecture (September 26) A. Kronman
Week 5 of September 29
Sappho, Aeschylus, Oresteia
Lecture (October 3) A. Beecroft
Week 6 of October 6
Sophocles, Antigone
Euripides, Medea
Lecture (October 10) I. Peirano
Week 7 of October 13
Virgil, Aeneid
Lecture (October 17) I. Peirano
Week 8 of October 20
Virgil, Aeneid
Lecture (October 24) A. Beecroft
Week 9 of October 27
Catullus, Ovid, Metamorphoses
Lecture: (October 31) K. Freudenburg
Week 10 of November 3
Hebrew Bible—Genesis and Exodus
Lecture: (November 7) D. Quint
Week 11 of November 10
New Testament—Matthew and Romans
Lecture: (November 14) D. Martin
Week 12 of November 17
Dante, Divine Comedy- Inferno
Lecture: (November 21) M. Menocal
—Thanksgiving Break—
Week 13 of December 1
Dante, Divine Comedy-Purgatorio
Lecture: (December 5) A. Capodivacca
Spring 2008
Lecture Meeting: Friday 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
Section Meetings:
1) Mark Bauer
2) Aexander Beecroft
3) Paul Grimstad
4) Virginia Jewiss
5) Jane Levin
6) Richard Maxwell
7) Brian Reilly
Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street; xerox packets at WHC, 53 Wall Street)
Medieval Lyric, (xerox)
Petrarch, Rime Sparse, Durling, trans. (Harvard)
Cervantes, Don Quixote, Grossman, trans. (HarperCollins)
Shakespeare, Sonnets, (Arden)
Shakespeare, King Lear, (Cambridge)
Milton, Paradise Lost (Hackett)
Wordsworth, Selected Poems and Prefaces, ed., Stillinger (Riverside)
Goethe, Faust, Part One, David Luke, trans., (Oxford)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Geoffrey Wall, trans. (Penguin)
Tolstoy, War and Peace, Pevear and Volokhonsky, trans. (Knopf)
Eliot, The Waste Land,
Stevens, “Sunday Morning” (xerox)
Week 1 of January 12
Medieval Lyric, Petrarch, Rime Sparse
Lecture (Thursday, January 15, 4:00 p.m.) V. Jewiss
Week 2 of January 19
Shakespeare, Sonnets
Lecture (January 23) H. Bloom
Week 3 of January 26
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Lecture (January 30) S. Byrne
Week 4 of February 2
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Lecture (February 6) A. Capodivacca
Week 5 of February 9
Shakespeare, King Lear
Lecture (February 13) L. Manley
Week 6 of February 16
Milton, Paradise Lost
Lecture (February 20) D. Kastan
Week 7 of February 23
Milton, Paradise Lost
Lecture (February 27) C. Rawson
Week 8 of March 2
Wordsworth
Lecture (March 6) M. Bauer
Spring Break
Week 9 of March 23
Goethe, Faust, Part One
Lecture: (March 27) R. Maxwell
Week 10 of March 30
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Lecture (April 3) B. Reilly
Week 11 of April 6
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Lecture (April 10) V. Alexandrov
Week 12 of April 13
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Lecture (April 17) J. MacKay
Week 13 of April 20
Eliot, The Waste Land
Stevens, “Sunday Morning”
Lecture (April 24) R. Maxwell