Depew: Schaeffer 210, phone 335-2938, email mary-depew@uiowa.edu
Office Hours: Tues. 3:30-4:30, Wed. 11:30-12:30, and by appointment
Huskey: Schaeffer 218, phone 335-0618, email samuel-huskey@uiowa.edu
Office Hours: Tues. 10:30-11:20, Thurs. 2:30-3:20, Fri. 9:30-10:30
and by appointment
Course Description: Gnôthi seauton: "Know Yourself". This phrase was inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece, and is often interpreted to mean, "Know that you are a human being, that is, not a god." Why would anyone think that she or he were a god, or even like a god? What would that mean? That one were a hero or a heroine? Happy or free from worry and toil? The other side of these questions is, what does it mean to be a human being? These questions are central to ancient Greek literature and to the themes of this course: ancient Greek conceptions of the divine, and of what it meant to be human in relation to the divine; the figures of the hero and heroine in ancient Greece, both as objects of worship, and as ways of imagining a mortal's relation to the gods; transitions in human life, and their identification with certain divine paradigms; how mortals "mirror" the character of various gods when they worship them. The course will study these issues and others through the evidence of poetry, sculpture, and architecture.
Required Textbooks (available at Iowa Book and Supply):
Homer, Iliad (translated by R. Lattimore)
Homeric Hymns (trans. Athanassakis)
Greek Lyric Poetry (trans. Lattimore)
Sophocles I and II (Chicago series)
Ten Plays by Euripides (trans. Hadas and McLean)
Apollonius of Rhodes, Voyage of the Argo (trans. R. Hunter)
Attendance: It should go without saying that students are expected to attend all of the lectures. Since the quizzes that will be given each week in the discussion sections account for 1/5 of your final grade, it should also go without saying that all students are expected to attend the discussion sections.
Grading: Final grades will be given according to the following scale: A+ 97100, A 9396, A- 9092, etc. Components of the final grade are as follows:
| Short quizzes (in sections, weekly) | 20% |
| 2 short papers | 40% |
| Exam I | 20% |
| Exam II | 20% |
Make-up examinations will be given to students who are unable to attend the scheduled exams for medical or religious reasons. It is the student's responsibility to schedule a make-up exam as soon as possible upon returning to class.
There will be no make-up quizzes. Instead, the two lowest quiz
grades will be dropped.
Note: The Final Exam will be held on Wednesday,
December 13 at 9:45 a.m.
Complaints: If you have a complaint, please discuss it first with either Professor Depew or Mr. Huskey. If you feel that you cannot discuss it with either of them, you may take your complaint to the Chair of the Classics Department, Professor Helena Dettmer, 202 Schaeffer Hall (335-2323, helena-dettmer@uiowa.edu). If you do not receive a satsfactory solution, you may submit a written complaint to the Associate Dean for Academic Programs, 120 Schaeffer Hall (335-2633).
Plagiarism, Cheating, and Forgery: All attempts to take credit for work that is not your own or to assist others in doing so will be dealt with swiftly and severely according the to policies of the College of Liberal Arts.
Special accomodations: I would like to hear from anyone who has a disability which may require some modification of seating, testing, or other class requirements so that appropriate arrangements may be made. Please see me after class or during my office hours.