Reading Assignments:
 
Homer's Odyssey
    Books:  1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9-13, 16, 17, 19, 21-24

Sophocles' Philoctetes

Euripides' Medea

Metamorphoses (selected passages on Jason and Medea
 

Be able to define or identify the following terms and names:

Odysseus
Penelope
Telemachus

Zeus
Poseidon
Athena
Hermes

The Telemachea
Nestor
Menelaus
Helen

Phaeacians
Nausicaa
Calypso

Kikones (Ciconians)
Lotus-Eaters
Cyclopes (Polyphemous)

Aeolus
Laestrygonians
Circe
Elpenor

Teiresias
Antikleia
Achilles
 Ajax

Sirens
Scylla and Charybdis
Cattle of Helios

Eurykleia (Odysseus' nurse)
Eumaius (Odysseus' swineherd)
Argus  (Odysseus' dog)

Antinoos
Melanthus/Melantho
Phemious the minstrel
Medon the herald

Laertes
Ithaca

in medias res
oral composition
Heinrich Schliemann

Philoctetes
Neoptolemus
Heracles

Tantalus
Pelops and Niobe
Atreus and Thyestes
Agamemnon and Menelaus
Mycenae
Clytemnestra
Aegisthus
Orestes and Electra
Cassandra

The Oresteia

Jason
Pelias
Argo/Argonauts
Phineus and the Harpies
Clashing Rocks

Colchis
Aeetes
Medea
Lemnian Women
Phrixus and Helle and the Golden Fleece
 
Corinth
Creon and Creusa