Classics 130 - The Trojan War: history or myth?
Syllabus
Classics 130 - The Trojan War: history or myth?
Syllabus
Key to Text Abbreviations: Bcourse Readings = BC;
Wood,
In Search of the Trojan War = Search;
Homer, The Iliad = Iliad;
Shanower, The Age of Bronze I: A
Thousand Ships = 1000;
The Age of Bronze II: Saccrifice
= Sac; Fields, Troy c.
1700-1250 BC = Troy and Mycenaean Citadels c. 1350-1200 BC = Myc
This schedule is subject to change and addition. Check this web page regularly for the most recent version and for helpful links and extra materials. Reading assignments are to be done BEFORE the day they are listed.
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| Jan 19 |
Introduction |
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21 word list |
Archaeology and Sources |
Search : prologue; 1000 : map and geneological charts 212-213 |
| 26 word list |
Setting and
background |
Search : Ch. 1; Myc 4-6 |
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28 |
Search, Discovery and the Questions |
Search : Ch. 2, 47-62 and 85-93; BC #1 and #2; Troy 8-10 |
| Feb 2 word list |
Anatolia in the Bronze Age |
BC #3 and #4; Troy 5-7 |
| The Aegean Bronze Age |
Search : Ch. 2
pp. 62-85 and Ch. 3; Troy
29-33; Myc 6-21 |
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Homer and the epic tradition |
Search : Ch. 4 pp. 123-138; BC #5 and #6 |
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11 |
The pre-war story |
1000 |
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16 |
Sac; BC #7 pp. 24-29 |
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| Iliad I Live performance |
Iliad books 1-6; Myc 22-23;
Reading
questions |
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23 |
Iliad II |
Iliad books 7-12; Reading
questions |
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25 |
Iliad III |
Iliad books 13-18; Reading
questions |
| Mar 1 |
Iliad IV for an alternative ending: HollyTroy |
Iliad books 19-24; BC #7 pp. 130-140; Reading questions |
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The 10th year and the sack |
BC #8 books three and twelve, and #9; Troy 51-56 |
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| 8 |
The returns Odyssey
- Book 11
*Writing Assignment #1 due |
BC
#10 |
| 10 word list |
The site of Hisarlik: prehistory/history | Troy 13-28 and 34-45 |
| 15 word list |
Is Hisarlik=Troy? New excavations Visit the new excavations |
Search : Ch. 4 pp. 138-144; Troy 11-12; BC #11, #12 and #13 |
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17 |
Causes and evidence |
Search : reread Ch. 3 pp. 111-122; Troy 46-50 |
| 22/24 | NO CLASS-SPRING BREAK |
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29 |
Was there a war? |
BC #14 and #15 |
| 31 word list |
Hittites and Anatolia | Search : Ch. 6 and postscript pp. 264 last par. - 269; BC #16 and #17 |
| Apr 5 |
Sea Peoples and trade Fall of the Mycenaean civilization |
Search : Ch. 7, 8 and postscript pp. 269-270; Myc 53-59 |
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7 |
Was it the Mycenaeans? |
Search : Ch. 5; Myc 23-52; BC #18 and #20 |
| 12 |
Bronze Age elements | BC #19 and #21 pp. 119-122
and 137-158 |
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14 |
Iron Age elements and later | BC #21 pp. 122-130 and 158-159 |
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19 |
When did it happen? |
Troy 57-59; BC #22 and #23; Review Blegen's and Korfmann's theories |
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21 |
*Writing
Assignment
#2 due |
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26/28 |
Critiquing the modern interpretations |
BC #24; 1000 200-206 |
| May 10 by 2pm |
*Writing Assignment #3 due |