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Humanities 201

Reading List and Assignment Schedule

Samarian, Babylonian, and Jewish Culture

1/24—Introduction and Overview / Babylonian Creation Myth

1/31— The Epic of Gilgamesh

2/7—Jewish tradition/ Creation, Cain and Abel, Tower of Babel, Ten Commandments

Test On Blackboard—Due February 11th

Greek and Roman Culture

2/14—Review Test

—Homer, Rage of Achilles (129-145), Death of Hektor (145-158)

—Homer, Achilles and Priam (158-177)—Odyssey introduction

—Homer, Odyssey Book IX (271-283)

—Homer, Odyssey Book X (283-296)

–discussion of the epic hero

2/21—Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

–discussion of the tragic hero

2/28—Plato, The Apology (small book)

3/7—Virgil, “The Final Hours of Troy” from the Aeneid (598-620)

–First research paper due

3/14—In class Midterm

Christian Tradition Culture

3/21—Spring Break

3/28—New Testament: Birth of Jesus 819-820, Mathew 5-7 (821-824)

—New Testament: Luke 15 (824-5), Mathew 27-28 (827-830). John 1 (830-1)

—New Testament discussion

4/4—Snori Sterlinson: Gylfaginning (online http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre04.htm)

4/11—Discussion of the tragic hero in cinema and popular culture

–Comparison Paper due by 4/18, submitted through SafeAssign

4/18—Dante: Inferno, Cantos I-V (1053-1070)

—Canto XXXIV

—Test On Blackboard due 4/23

4/25—Confucius: Analects (770-780)

—Haiku

–write five haikus to be presented next class

5/2—Haiku presentations

—Qur’an (861-884)