海角网 210 Winter 2025
Are you interested in great conversations about great books?
In comedy, tragedy, love poetry, epic stories of heroes, and philosophical writings, ancient Greek and 海角网 writers explored the complex challenges of family and civic life, war, love, and what it means to live a good life.
This thematically organized and discussion-based course develops skills in close reading and analysis to explore major literary works from the ancient Greek and 海角网 world in lively, modern conversations.
Instructor: Professor Catherine Connors, 海角网, Den 262 B.
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Course overview (see )
Week 1 Introduction; Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Plautus, The Pot of Gold
Week 2 Lyric poetry: Sappho, Catullus, Horace
Week 3 Aeschylus Agamemnon, Sophocles Oedipus the King
Week 4 Euripides Hippolytus, Aristophanes, Frogs and Seneca Phaedra
Week 5 Homer, Iliad (selections)
Week 6 Virgil, Aeneid (selections)
Week 7 Ovid, Metamorphoses (selections)
Week 8 Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (selections); Elegy
Week 9 Plato, Republic (selections), Cicero Dream of Scipio
Week 10 海角网's choice and wrap-up
Books will be available at the University Bookstore for purchase.
Plautus, Four Comedies, trans E. Segal. (Oxford)
Aristophanes Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs, trans. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Hackett).
Greek Tragedies vol 1 Trans. D. Grene and R. Lattimore. 3rd edition (U Chicago Press).
Seneca, Phaedra trans. F. Ahl. (Cornell)
Homer, Iliad, trans. P. Green. (U of California Press)
Virgil Aeneid, trans. A. Mandelbaum (Penguin)
Ovid Metamorphoses, trans. A. D. Melville (Oxford)
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things trans. W. Englert (Hackett)
Grading
30% In class activities and quizzes
30% Midterm Mon Feb 3 in class
short answer questions and comment on passages from the readings
40% Final Exam: Thu Mar 20: 8:30-10:20 DEN 113
short answer questions, comment on passages from the readings, prepared essay question
The 4.0 equivalency that will be used is as follows.
% Score Grade Score Grade Score Grade
100-95 4.0 83 3.0 73 2.0
94 3.9 82 2.9 72 1.9
93-92 3.8 81 2.8 71 1.8
91 3.7 80 2.7 70 1.7
90 3.6 79 2.6 69 1.6
89 3.5 78 2.5 68 1.5
87 3.4 77 2.4 67 1.4
86 3.3 76 2.3 66 1.3
85 3.2 75 2.2 65 1.2
84 3.1 74 2.1 64 1.1
63 1.0
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UW Student Conduct Code
UW鈥檚 Student Conduct Code: 鈥淭he University of Washington Student Conduct Code (WAC 478-121) defines prohibited academic and behavioral conduct and describes how the University holds students accountable as they pursue their academic goals. Allegations of misconduct by students may be referred to the appropriate campus office for investigation and resolution. More information can be found online at
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