READING ASSIGNMENTS:

Monday 22 Aug Reading: Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book 1
Wednesday 24 Aug Reading: Chaereas and Callirhoe (CAGN)
Friday 26 Aug

Monday 29 Aug
Wednesday 31 Aug Reading: An Ephesian Tale (CAGN)
Friday 2 Sept

Wednesday 7 Sept QUIZ #1
Reading: Leucippe and Clitophon (CAGN)
Reserve Reading: Bartsch, Decoding the ancient Novel, Chap. 2
Friday 9 Sept

Monday 12 Sept
Wednesday 14 Sept Writing assignment #1 due
Reading: Daphnis and Chloe (CAGN)
Reserve Reading: Winkler, The constraints of desire, Chap. 4
Friday 16 Sept

Monday 19 Sept
Wednesday 21 Sept QUIZ #2
Reading: An Ethiopian Story (CAGN)
Reserve Reading: Bartsch, Decoding the ancient Novel, Chap. 4
Friday 23 Sept

Monday 26 Sept
Wednesday 28 Sept
Reading: The Wonders Beyond Thule (CAGN)
Friday 30 Sept

Monday 3 Oct TEST #1
Wednesday 5 Oct
Reading: A True Story (in CAGN)|
Friday 7 Oct

Monday 10 Oct
Reading: Alexander Romance (in CAGN)
Wednesday 12 Oct
Friday 14 Oct
Reading: Aesop Romance, Collectio Augustana (in AAGPL)

Monday 17 Oct Writing assignment #2 due
Reading: Book of Marvels, The Laughter-Lover, The Oracles of Astrampsychus (in AAGPL)
Wednesday 19 Oct
Friday 21 Oct
Reading: Petronius, Satyrica
Reserve Reading: Plato, Symposium

Monday 24 Oct QUIZ #3
Wednesday 26 Oct

Monday 31 Oct
Wednesday 2 Nov
Friday 4 Nov
Reserve Reading: D'Arms, Commerce and Social Standing, chap. 5

Monday 7 Nov TEST #2
Wednesday 9 Nov Pseudo-Lucian, The Ass (in CAGN)
Friday 11Nov
Reading: Apuleius, Golden Ass
Reserve Reading: Winkler, Auctor & Actor, pp. 180-203


Monday 14 Nov
Wednesday 16 Nov
Friday 18 Nov

Monday 21 Nov

Monday 28 Nov Writing assignment #3 due
Reserve Reading: Apuleius, Apologia
Wednesday 30 Nov
Friday 2 Dec
Reading: The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre (in CAGN)

Monday 5 Dec
Reading: Secundus the Silent Philosopher (in AAGPL)
Tuesday 6 Dec
Reading: The Acts of Paul and Thecla (in AAGPL)
Wednesday 7 Dec

Friday 16 Dec FINAL EXAM, 8-11 am

• Writing assignment #1 (due Wednesday, Sept. 14): Is Callirhoe loyal to Chaereas? Is Chaereas loyal to Callirhoe? Support your answers with evidence from the text.
  3 typed pages
• Writing assignment #2 (due Oct. 17): Write an episode in which you incorporate the major features of the Greek novel. Your grade will be based on how well you imitate the way such an episode would be treated by a writer of Greek romance. Here's the opening of the scene: The beautiful Melanippe and her handsome young husband, Eurymedon, have been captured by pirates, and are being taken by ship to Rhodes where they will be sold into slavery. Suddenly a violent storm arises. The ship sinks, and all aboard die except Melanippe, Eurymedon, and one pirate named Nepios. The three survivors have been adrift at sea for three days when... (What happens next?) 3 typed pages
• Writing assignment #3 (due Nov. 28): The "Tale of the Robber" (Golden Ass 4.9-2: pages 63-71 in Walsh's translation) consists of three stories of the exploits of the robber and his band. What is the function of the "Tale of the Robber"? Discuss its relationship to the narrative and themes of the entire novel. 3 typed pages