CLAS 3200/RELG 3030
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters: Classical Mythologies
Section TR2
Boylan 3407 - TR 2:15pm - 3:30pm
Kevin Nobel - Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00pm - 2:00pm & by Appointment
2408 Boylan (Classics Department Office)
Email: kevin.nobel@brooklyn.cuny.edu
WEEK ONE: Defining Myth
Tuesday, August 26 – Background and General Information
Thursday, August 28 – Segal, 1-9; Leeming, 3-9, "Introduction"; Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche
WEEK TWO: Defining Myth
Tuesday, September 2 – Leeming, 11-31 "Cosmic Myths: The Creation" up to Hesiod's Theogony; Genesis 4; Hesiod, Theogony p. 3-33
Thursday, September 4 – Leeming, 35-42 "Cosmic Myths: The Creation" starting with the Gospel of John; Hesiod, Works and Days p. 37-42
WEEK THREE: Creation
Tuesday, September 9 – Ovid Metamorphoses 1; Norse Mythology, 19-41
Thursday, September 11 – QUIZ: Creation Myths; Segal 10-29 "Myth and Science"; Leeming, 43-55, 60-62 "Cosmic Myths: The Flood" except for Deucalion and Pyrrha; “Ojibwe Flood Myth”
WEEK FOUR: Floods and Ecological Disasters
Tuesday, September 16 – Ovid Metamorphoses 2; Segal, 30-48 "Myth and Philosophy", "Myth and Religion"
Thursday, September 18 – Ovid Metamorphoses 3
WEEK FIVE: Interpretation of Myth
Thursday, September 25 – QUIZ: Flood Myths; Ovid Metamorphoses 4
WEEK SIX: Interpretation of Myth
Tuesday, September 30 – Leeming, 91-122; Ovid Metamorphoses 5
WEEK SEVEN: The Gods
Tuesday, October 7 – Homeric Hymn 3: Apollo; 5: Aphrodite; and 19: Pan; Apollodorus Bibliotheca A1-F (p. 17-24); Leeming, 197-212 (optional)
Thursday, October 9 – Homer, Odyssey 9-10; Leeming 64-75
WEEK EIGHT: Sacred Places
Thursday, October 16 – QUIZ: The Gods; Odyssey 11-12
WEEK NINE: Religion
Tuesday, October 21 – Ovid Metamorphoses 6; Leeming 313-336; Segal 49-65
Thursday, October 23 – Aeneid 6; “Coyote, Master of Death, True to Life,” in Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, and Song p. 169-183
WEEK TEN: Religion
Tuesday, October 28 – Homeric Hymn 2: Demeter; Leeming 336-348
Thursday, October 30 – Midterm Examination
WEEK ELEVEN: Archetypes
Tuesday, November 4 – Leeming, 123-174
Thursday, November 6 – Apollodorus Bibliotheca G1-J2; L1-N7 (p. 25-33; 45-57); Ovid Metamorphoses 7
WEEK TWELVE: Heroes
Tuesday, November 11 – QUIZ: Archetypes; Segal 66-81; Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 1-15; Ovid Metamorphoses 8
Thursday, November 13 – Apollodorus Bibliotheca K1-K21 (p.33-45); Ovid Metamorphoses 9
**First Writing Assignment Due Friday November 15 at midnight**
WEEK THIRTEEN: Heroes
Tuesday, November 18 – Segal 82-99; Ovid Metamorphoses 10
Thursday, November 20 – Leeming, 215-312 (read introductions, pick 3 from each section)
WEEK FOURTEEN: Heroes
Tuesday, November 25 – Segal 100-111; Ovid Metamorphoses 11-12
WEEK FIFTEEN: War
Tuesday, December 2 – QUIZ: Heroes; Ovid Metamorphoses 13; Theocritus Idyll 11;
Presentations from Students
Thursday, December 4 – Ovid Metamorphoses 14; Presentations
WEEK SIXTEEN: Myth and History
Tuesday, December 9 – QUIZ: The Trojan War; Leeming 76-88; Segal 112-125; Presentations
Thursday, December 11 – Ovid Metamorphoses 15; Presentations
Thursday, December 18th – **Second Writing Assignment Due at midnight**
