SYLLABUS FOR E240 WORLD LITERATURE TO 400 CE
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, INTERTERM JANUARY 2004

*2023 Note. Most hyperlinks and information have been removed from this archival version of the course, leaving mainly the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. English 240. Tu/Th.11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Beckman 203. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tu. 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. in Cyber Café. Email: e240_at_ajdrake.com. Course satisfies General Education Requirements, first in a series (240, 242, 244). Catalog: “World masterpieces from the beginning to the fall of Rome, 476 A.D.” Units (3).

REQUIRED TEXTS AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE

King James Bible. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. ISBN: 0192835254.

Bhagavad-Gita. Trans. Stephen Mitchell. New York: Three Rivers, 2000. ISBN: 0609810340.

Aeschylus. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II. Eds. Richmond Lattimore and David Grene. 2nd Edition. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN: 0226307948.

Euripides. The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides 1: Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus. Eds. Richmond Lattimore and David Grene. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1983. ISBN: 0226307808.

Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. Noonday Press, 1998. ISBN: 0374505322.

Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998 (reprint). ISBN: 0192833723.

OPTIONAL RESOURCES

Guides: Odyssey Time Frame | Agamemnon Structure | Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters” | Tennyson’s “Ulysses” | Nietzsche’s Greeks

Classics Sites: Didaskalia | Perseus | Diotima | Forum | Homeric Singing

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS

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Bible | Gita | Aeschylus | Euripides | Apuleius | Augustine

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

Tu. 01/06. Course Introduction.

W. 01/07. King James Bible: Job.

Th. 01/08. King James Bible: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew.

WEEK 2

Tu. 01/13. Bhagavad-Gita.

W. 01/14. Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound.

Th. 01/15. Euripides. Medea. (Film)

WEEK 3

Tu. 01/20. Euripides. Medea. (Discussion)

W. 01/21. Apuleius. The Golden Ass, approx. first half of book.

Th. 01/22. Apuleius. The Golden Ass, second half.

WEEK 4

Tu. 01/27. Augustine. Confessions.

W. 01/28. Augustine. Confessions.

Th. 01/29. Final Exam.