| Date | Topic | Reading Assignment |
| Jan. 15 | Introduction/Cosmogony | |
| Jan. 17 | Birth of the gods | Hesiod, Theogony ll.116-231, 456-508, 621-end (webpage) |
| Metamorphoses, pp. 3-5 | ||
| Powell, ch. 1 (pp. 1-4), chapters 4 & 5 (optional) | ||
| Jan. 22 | Zeus and the Olympian gods | Metamophoses: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Baucis and Philemon |
| Callisto (Jove in Arcadia), Arachne | ||
| Powell, Ch. 6 | ||
| Jan. 24 | " " | Pyramis and Thisbe, Adonis, Pygmalion, |
| Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite #5 | ||
| Jan. 29 | " " | Phaethon, Daphne, Niobe |
| Homeric Hymn to Apollo #3 | ||
| Jan. 31 | " " | Homeric Hymn to Hermes #4 |
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Feb. 5 |
Creation of Man/Prometheus
and Pandora |
Metamorphoses: pp. 5-16 |
| Hesiod, Theogony ll. 509-620 | ||
| Feb. 7 | The Great Epic Stories: | Powell, ch. 9, pp. 134-140 |
| Feb. 12 | The Trojan War | Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis |
| Feb. 14 | Trojan War, cont. | Euripides, Trojan Women |
| Feb. 19 | First Hourly Exam | |
| Feb. 21 | The Epic Hero | Homer, Odyssey: Books 1, 4, 5 |
| Powell, ch. 10 | ||
| Feb. 26 | " " | Books 6, 8, 9, 10 |
| Feb. 28 | " " | Books 11, 12, 13 |
| March 5 | " " | Books 16, 17, 19, 21-24 |
| Mar. 7 | The Hero Revisited | Sophocles, Philoctetes |
| Mar. 19 | The House of Atreus | Powell, Ch. 12 |
| Mar. 21 | Jason and the Argonauts | Euripides, Medea |
| Meta. Jason and Medea, Pelias | ||
| Mar. 26 | Perseus/Meleagar | Meta. Perseus (ppp. 100-106), Meleagar |
| Mar. 28 | Second Hourly Exam | |
| April 2 | Heracles/Hercules | Meta. pp. 209-219, 266, Powell, Ch.8 |
| Sophocles, Trachiniae (Women of Trachis) | ||
| April 4 | House of Thebes/Oedipus | Meta. Cadmus |
| April 9 | Theseus of Athens | Meta. Theseus, Daedalus |
| Powell, ch. 14, pp. 193-196 | ||
| April 11 | Theseus, cont. | Euripides, Hippolytus |
| April 16 | Mystery Religion/Demeter | Homeric Hymn to Demeter #2 |
| Meta. pp. 119-125, Powell, ch.7 | ||
| April 18 | Dionysus/Orpheus | Euripides, Bacchae |
| Meta. Bacchus (pp. 73-82), | ||
| Semele, Pentheus, Orpheus | ||
| April 23 | Ovid's Art | Meta. Echo, Tereus, Cephalus, Hyacinth |
| April 25 | The Roman Gods: Aeneas
and Vergil's Aeneid |
Powell, Ch. 13 |
| April 30 | Theories of Myth Interpretation | Powell, ch. 2 |
| May 2 | More Theories | Powell, ch. 3 |
| May 9 | Final Exam | Thursday at 8:30 AM |