Greek Drama (GRK115b) Course Description and Goals Greek Lyric and Elegiac poetry provides some of the earliest and most dynamic examples of poetic voice and engagement among genre, performance context and tradition from the ancient world. Extant poems from these tradition clearly influenced the course of literary and popular poetry from Greek tragedy through the Hellenistic and Roman periods to the modern day. By the end of the course students will be able to identify the major poets, generic features, and major poems of lyric and elegy; to articulate in their own words the importance of these genres for ancient literary traditions; and to summarize major interpretive challenges or trends in modern scholarship on these genres. Grading Students will be expected to attend and to participate in all class meetings and to complete four assignments (20%;), to present one in-class presentation (10%), to submit a final research paper or project (25%) to perform well on one take home exame (25%) and a final (20%). Graduate students will be expected to do longer assignments, translate more in class, and submit a significantly longer final paper. Success in a four - credit hour class is contingent upon an average of three -hours of homework (reading, writing, thinking) for each hour of scheduled class time. If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately Assignment Descriptions Monthly Assignments Students will be responsible for four assignments during the semester: (1) an abstract of a scholarly article; (2) a metrical analysis of 8-10 lines of elegy; (3) a metrical analysis of two stanzas of lyric poetry; and (4) a textual criticism assignment. In-Class Presentation Each student will present for 5-10 minutes with audiovisual aids (handouts or powerpoint) on an academic article or book from the bibliography below. Final Project Students will write a final paper or a commentary on a poem. The commentary may be collaborative (2-3 students) but students need to consult with the instructor about the length of the commentary.
Exams The exams will consist of passages covered in class with some sight passages. They will also include appended grammatical questions. The mid-term will be a take-home exam Texts Required Recommended Campbell, D.A. Greek Lyric Poetry. H. W. Smyth. Greek Grammar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674362500. H. G. Liddell and R. Scott. Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, Abridged. ISBN 1843560267. Academic Integrity Success in a four - credit hour class is contingent upon an average of three -hours of homework (reading, writing, thinking) for each hour of scheduled class time. If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately You are expected to be honest in all of your academic work. Please consult Brandeis University Rights and Responsibilities for all policies and procedures related to academic integrity. Students may be required to submit work to TurnItIn.com software to verify originality. Allegations of alleged academic dishonesty will be forwarded to the Director of Academic Integrity. Sanctions for academic dishonesty can include failing grades and/or suspension from the university. Citation and research assistance can be found at LTS - Library guides. If you are at all unsure about issues of academic integrity or about course expectations, please contact me at any time. Schedule, Week 1 Aug. 29, 30 Elegy: Archilochus Week 2 Sep. 5, 6 [No Class Sep. 3] Elegy: Kallinos, Tyrtaeus Week 3 Sep. 10 [no class], 12, 13 Mimnermus Week 4 Sep. 17, [No Class Sep. 19], 20 Elegy: Theognis Abstract Assignment Week 5 Sep. 24 [no class], 25 [Brandeis Monday], 26, 27 Elegy: Solon Meter Assignment 1
Week 6 Oct. 1 [no class], 3 4 Take-Home Exame Distributed Elegy: Semonides and Simonides Week 7 Oct. 8, 10, 11 Philosophical Elegy: Solon, Xenophanes, Empedocles Week 8 Oct. 15, 17, 18 Lyric: Sappho Week 9 Oct. 22, 24, 25 Lyric: Sappho Meter Assignment 2 Week 10 Oct. 29, 31 Nov. 1 Lyric: Sappho Week 11 Nov. 5, 7, 8 Lyric: Alcaeus, Alman, Anacreon Textual Criticsm Assignment Week 12 Nov. 12, 14, 15 Lyric: Alcaeus, Alman, Anacreon Week 13 Nov. 19 [No Class Nov.21-23] Lyric: Ibykos, Stesichorus Week 14 Nov. 26, 28, 29 Lyric: Ibykos, Stesichorus, Corinna, Bacchylides Week 15 Dec. 3, 5, 6 Invective: Hippnax and Archilochus Week 16 Dec. 10 Catch-up/New Poems A Bibliography Final Exams, Dec. 13-20 Adkins, A. W. H., Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists (Chicago, 1985). Aloni, A., The Proem of Simonides Plataea Elegy and the Circumstance of its Performances, in Boedeker and Sider (2001) 86-105. Barker, E.T.E. and, J.P. (2006), Flight Club: the new Archilochus fragment and its resonance with Homeric epic, MD 57, 9 41
Boedeker, D., Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea, in Boedeker and Sider (2001) 120-34. Boedeker, D., Paths to Heroization at Plataea, in Boedeker and Sider (2001) 148-63. Boedeker, D. and Sider, D., The New Simonides, Arethusa 29 (1996) 157-293. Boedeker, D. and Sider, D., eds., The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (Oxford, 2001). Bowie, E. L., Early Greek Elegy, Symposium, and Public Festival, JHS 106 (1986) 13 35. Early Iambic Poetry: the Importance of Narrative, in A. Cavarzere, A. Aloni and A. Barchiesi, eds., Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetics Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire (Lanham, MD, 2001a) 1-27. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry, in N. Luraghi, ed., The Historian s Craft in the Age of Herodotus (Oxford, 2001), 45-67. Bowie, E. L. (2016), 'Cultic Contexts for Elegiac Performance', in Swift, L. and Carey, C. (edd.), Iambus and Elegy: new approaches (Oxford 2016) 15 32. Budelman, Felix. Ed. 2009. Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. Cambridge. Braswell, K., Mythological Innovation in the Iliad, CQ 21 (1971) 16-26. Campbell, D. A., The language of the new Archilochus, Arethusa 9 (1976) 151-7. Clay, D., Archilochus Heros (Harvard, 2004). Clark, M., Chryses Supplication: Speech Act and Mythological Allusion, ClassAnt 17 (1997) 5-24. Dover, K., The Poetry of Archilochus, in Archiloque. Entretiens sur L Antiquité Classique, 10. (Vandœuvres-Genève, 1964) 183-212. Fränkel H., Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy (Oxford, 1975). Goldhill, S. D., The Poet s Voice (Cambridge, 1991). Nagy, G., Iambos, Typologies of Invective and Praise, Arethusa 9 (1976) 191-205. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of Hero in Archaic Greek poetry (Baltimore, 1979). Pindar s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (Baltimore, 1990). Notopoulos, J. A. Archilochus the Aoidos, TAPA 97 (1966) 311-15. Obbink, D. The Genre of Plataea: Generic Unity in the New Simonides, in Boedeker and Sider (2001) 65-85. 4708. Archilochus, Elegies (more of VI 854 and XXX 2507), in The Oxyrynchus Papyri. Volume LXIX (London, 2005) 18-42.
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