Introduction to the Study of Ancient Greek Literature

I. About the work during the semester


II. List of the Lectures

A. Poetry
1. Homer. "Iliad"
2. Homer. "Odyssey"
3. Hesiod. "Theogony". "Works and Days"
4. Classical Lyric. Pindar
5. Hellenistic Lyric. The Poetry of Hellenism.
6. Tragedy
7. Comedy
8. New Comedy

B. Prose
9. History. Herodotus and Thycidides
10. Rhetoric. Demosthenes
11. The Philosophical Dialogue. Plato
12. The Novel


III. Reading List (in translation)


IV. The Ancient Greek Literature - a Survey


Literature in English (available in the web):
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
http://hleefish.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pTDlhMOIJB3vzh2cIwdysyQ!716.entry
A History of Ancient Greek Literature. by Gilbert Murray.
http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-history-of-ancient-greek-literature-by-gilbert-murray.jsp