Core Humanities 201

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Outlines, images, etc.

Course Policies

Student Learning Outcomes

Texts

Writing Assignments

E-mail response topics

Iliad: Key Characters

Aeneid: List of Names

Iliad Summary

Core Humanities

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Links to outlines, images and other resources will be posted on this page.

Tues. Aug. 25
Introduction; Orality and Literacy
From Blake's Milton
Thurs. Aug. 27
Gilgamesh: Backgrounds and the Development of Writing
Tues. Sep. 1
The Sumerian World
The Documentary Hypothesis
Two Mesopotamian Creation Stories
Three Ways of Knowing
Two Versions of the Flood
Thurs. Sep. 3
Joseph
Thurs. Sep. 10
Homeric Backgrounds and Values
Thurs. Sep. 17
The gods of the Greeks
Tues. Sep. 21
Introduction to Tragedy
Tues. Oct. 6
Women in Ancient Greece
Thurs. Oct. 8
Socratic Dialectic
Tues. Oct. 13
Platonic Forms
Text file
Thurs. Oct. 15
Some images, beginning with Aeneas carrying Anchises out of Troy
Tues. Oct. 20
Aeneid: topics and themes
Tues. Oct. 27
Judaism: From the Second Temple to the Rabbis
Text file
Thurs. Oct. 29
Books of the New Testament
Tues. Nov. 10
The Consolation of Philosophy
Text file
Tues. Nov. 17
The Inspiration of Caedmon and Hesiod
Parallels
Thurs. Nov. 19
Beowulf links
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