ALIT 111: Myth and Ancient Greek Literature
A/Professor Iain Spence
This unit is designed to introduce students to the myth and literature and society of ancient Greece, a starting point for the exploration of European Culture. It will focus on selected master-works of Greek literature. Amongst those authors to be studied are Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. All authors are studied in translation.
Assessment is by two or three assignments/essays, worth 60% of the final marks and a two-hour [pre-circulated exam] worth 40% of the final marks.
Prescribed Books:
Aeschylus, Prometheus and Other Plays. trans. P. Vellacott, Penguin.
Aristophanes, Lysistrata and Other Plays. trans. A.H. Sommerstein, Penguin.
Euripides, Medea and Other Plays. trans P. Vellacott, Penguin.
Grimal, P. (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Penguin.
Herodotus, The Histories. trans. A. de Selincourt, Penguin.
Homer, The Odyssey. trans. R. Lattimore, Harper.
Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Trans. Tredennick and Tarrant, Penguin.
Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays. trans. R. Fagles, Penguin.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. trans. R. Warner, Penguin.
ALIT 112: Myth and Ancient Roman Literature
A/Professor Iain Spence
ALIT 112 is designed to introduce students to the myth and literature and society of ancient Rome, a starting point for the exploration of European Culture. It will focus on selected master-works of Latin literature. Amongst those authors to be studied are Plautus, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Petronius and Juvenal. All authors are studied in translation.
Assessment is by three assignments/essays, worth 60% of the final marks and a two-hour examination worth 40% of the final marks.
Prescribed Books:
Catullus, The Poems of Catullus. trans. G. Lee, OUP Paperback.
Cicero, Selected Political Speeches. trans. M. Grant, Penguin.
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires. trans. P. Green, Penguin.
Petronius and Seneca, The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis. trans. J.P. Sullivan, Penguin.
Plautus, Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold. trans. E. Segal, Penguin.
Sallust, The Jugurthine War/the Conspiracy of Certiline, trans. S.A Handford, Penguin.
Virgil, The Aeneid of Virgil. trans. D. West, Penguin.
ALIT 321: Greek and Roman Epic
Dr Paul Roche
This unit is designed to enable students to study systematically the genesis of one of the key genres of European culture, epic. The unit will particularly focus on the use and abuse of myth within epic.
Written work for internal students consists of:
• 1 x 1500-word essay
• 1 x 800-word tutorial paper
• 1 x 500-word film report
Written work for external students consists of 2 x 1500-word essays. The final grade for the unit will be based on both written work submitted during the semester and the pre-circulated examination; each of these is worth 50% of the total marks.
Prescribed Books:
Apollonius of Rhodes, Jason and the Golden Fleece: the Argonautica, trans. R.L. Hunter, OUP (Paperback)
Catullus, The Poems of Catullus, trans. G. Lee, OUP (Paperback)
Grimal, P. (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Penguin.
Homer, Iliad, trans. R. Lattimore, Harper Torchbook.
Lucan, Civil War, trans. S.H. Braund, OUP (Paperback).
Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. A.D. Melville, OUP (Paperback).
Toohey, P., Reading Epic: Introduction to the Ancient Narratives, Routledge.
Virgil, The Aeneid of Virgil, trans. C. Day Lewis, OUP.
ALIT 322: Greek and Roman Erotic Poetry *** [NOT 2007] ***
[to be advised]
The aim of this unit is to introduce students to ancient concepts of eros as reflected in ancient lyric poetry and ancient society.
Prescribed Books:
Grimal, P. The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Penguin.
Horace, Odes and Epodes. trans. W.G. Shepherd.
Martial, Epigrams. trans. R.J. Baker (available from School.)
Ovid, The Love Poems trans. A.D. Melville.
Pindar, The Odes trans. C.M. Bowra.
Propertius, The Poems. OUP World Classics.
Tibullus, Elegies trans. G. Lee, 2nd ed.
West, M.L., Greek Lyric Poetry - The Poems and Fragments of the Greek Iambic, Elegiac, and Melic Poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450BC. OUP World Classics.
ALIT 323: Greek and Roman Prose
A/Professor Lynda Garland
The aim of the unit is to introduce students to different types of ancient literary prose, with especial focus on the novel and biography.
The final grade for the unit will be based on both written work submitted during the semester and the examination; The written work is worth 60% and the examination 40%.
Prescribed Books:
TO BE ADVISED
ALIT 324: Greek and Roman Drama *** [NOT 2007] ***
Professor Greg Horsley
The aim of this unit is designed to introduce students to ancient drama: Greek and Roman tragedy, and Greek and Roman comedy. The unit will provide an excellent basis for the two follow-on units in European Tragedy and Comedy (see School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics handbook).
Written work for internal students consists:
• 1 x 1500-word essay
• 1 x 800-word tutorial paper
• 1 x 500-word film report
Written work for external students consists of 2 x 1500-word essays. The final grade for the unit will be based on both written work submitted during the semester and the pre-circulated examination; each of these is worth 50% of the total marks.
Prescribed Books:
Aeschylus, Oresteia, trans. R. Fagles, Penguin.
Aristophanes, Frogs in The Wasps and Other Plays, trans. D. Barrett, Penguin.
Euripides, The Bacchae and Other Plays, trans. P. Vellacott, Penguin.
Grimal, P., The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Penguin.
Menander, Plays and Fragments, trans. P. Vellacott, Penguin.
Plautus, The Rope and Other Plays, trans. E.F. Watling, Penguin.
Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia, trans. E.F. Watling, Penguin.
Sophocles, Antigone in The Three Theban Plays, trans. R. Fagles, Penguin.
Terence, The Comedies, trans. B. Radice, Penguin. |
