SUGGESTED AUTHORS AND SELECTIONS, WITH DATE OF PRESENTATION

 

3-Oct Theocritus, Idyll 11— the softer side of Polyphemus the Cyclops, who pines for the love of the nymph Galatea. [Micah, Aileen]

5-Oct Sappho, Poems 3 (Atridae) 16 (Helen), 24, (Andromache), 33 (Hermione & Helen)—poems and fragments from the most famous woman poet of antiquity; an interesting perspective on the events of the Trojan War.

24-Oct Herodotus & Thucydides on Trojan War—how two Greek historians treated with the Trojan War.[Amy, Ashley, Michelle]

31-Oct Gorgias, Encomium of Helen—a tour-de-force by the "Father of Rhetoric" that seeks to free Helen from any blame for the war. [Mark A., Victoria, Marc R.]

2-Nov Plautus, Bacchides IV.9—"Troy Canticum": in this Roman comedy, Chrysalus, a slave, compares his plot to unite lovers to the sack of Troy. [John, Reed, Shea]

7-Nov Horace Satires II.5—A Roman poet has Ulysses seek Tiresias' advice on how to be an effective "gold-digger." [Isabel, Laura, Ian]

9-Nov Horace Epistles. I.2— A Roman poet reveals that Homer teaches us how to live. [Mark B., Ben, Amelia]

14-Nov Livy, Ab urbe condita I.1-3—how a Roman historian treated the events of the Trojan war that led to the founding of Rome. [Robbie, Holly, Matt]

21-Nov Bacchylides Ode 13—on when the Greeks demanded the return of Helen. [Theonie, Jacob, Colleen]

28-Nov Petronius, Satyricon, “Troy Song”—a song on the fall of Troy that just might have a lot to do with Nero; appears in the the oldest surviving novel. [Crystal, Mara, Nancy]

28-Nov Lucian, "Judgement of the Goddesses" and/or “Dialogues of the Dead”—an ironic take on the events and heroes of the Trojan War by an irrepressibly subversive Greek author. [Alexandra, Skyler, Sarah]

30-Nov Dio Chrysostom, Discourse 11—a Greek speech that argues that Troy was never sacked by the Greeks. [Nichole, Jennifer, Jenna]