BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
		(Sample Syllabus from an intensive Five-Week Term)

Instructor: Mr. Brian Gastle
Office: MEM 319

				REQUIRED TEXTS
The New English Bible with Apocrypha: Oxford Study Edition. Ed. S. 
	Sandmel. Oxford UP.
Homer. The Odyssey of Homer. Tr. R. Lattimore. Harper.
Sophocles. The Oedipus Cycles of Sophocles. Tr. R. Fitzgerald. Ed. D. 	
	Fitts. HBJ.
Aristophones. Lysistrata. Ed. D. Parker. NAL-Dutton.
Virgil. The Æneid. Tr. R. Fitzgerald. Random House.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Tr. R. Humphries. Indiana UP.
Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Tr. J. Lindsay. Indiana UP.


	READINGS

M (4)	Introduction to Course
W (6)	Genesis 1-12; 15; 17; 22; 27-28; 32.24-32; 35; 37; 39-45; 50.
		Exodus 1-16; 19-20; 24; 32-34.8.
F (8)	Numbers 20; 27.18-23; 32.1-33; 33.50-56; 35-36.
		Deuteronomy 34
		Joshua 1-3; 6; 24.
		Judges 4-5.
		1 Samuel 8-13.3; 16-18; 28; 31.
		2 Samuel 1-2.17; 5-7; 11-12; 22.
		1 Kings 2.1-12; 3; 4.29-34; 11
		2 Kings 21-25.

M (11)	Job 1-7; 29-42.
		Jonah
		Psalms 14; 19; 22; 23; 46; 96; 114; 137.
W (13)	The Odyssey, Books 1-12.
F (15)	The Odyssey, Books 13-24.

M (18)	Holiday--No Class
W (20)	from Plato's Republic, Book X.
		from Aristotle's Poetics.
		Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
F (22)	Sophocles, Antigone.
		Aristophones, Lysistrata.

M (25)	The Æneid, Books 1-6.
		* * * PAPER DUE * * *(at beginning of class)
W (27) 	Metamorphoses,	Book 1; from Book 2: Phaethon; Book 3.
F (29)	Metamorphoses,	from Book 4: Pyramus and Thisbe, Mars and Venus; 
	Book 6: Philomela; from Book 10: Orpheus and Eurydice, Venus and 
	Adonis (251-258).

M (1)	Golden Ass, Books 1-6
W (3)	Gospel of Matthew
		Letter of Paul to the Romans
F (5)	Acts 1-9.30
		Revelation 1; 4-9; 20-21.
		Conclusion of the course


			COURSE REQUIREMENTS
	Quizzes					40%
	Paper					30%
	Final Exam				30%

	Class Participation May Improve Your Grade


			Objectives
-- A broad survey of predominantly canonical Biblical and Classical
	literature in translation.
-- To be able to recognize references and allusions to those stories.
-- To become familiar with the social and historical environments of 
	early Hebrew, Christian, Greek, and Roman texts
-- To be able to discuss, analyze, and write about texts in a critically 
	mature and sophisticated manner.