CULTURAL HERITAGES: GREECE AND ROME

Syllabus CULTURAL HERITAGES: GREECE AND ROME - 8227 Last update 01-02-2014 HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: AMIRIM Academic year: 2 Semester: 2nd Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Matthias Schmidt Coordinator Email: matthias.schmidt@mail.huji.ac.ill Coordinator Office Hours: Mondays 14:30-16:00 Teaching Staff: Dr. Matthias Schmidt page 1 / 9

Course/Module description: The course will familiarize the participants with the three main literary works of antiquity: Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, and Aeneid by Vergil. All three are deeply rooted in the collective cultural memory of Europe. We will read the literary texts considering their historical, political and social contexts. The leading question of this term will be the connection between politics and literature, though issues like literature between history and mythos; social contexts; audience and author; political ideologies and moral world views; the heroic/tragic figure; gender; contents and form will also be discussed. Course/Module aims: Students will get acquainted with the three great epic works of western antiquity: Homers Iliad and Odyssey; Vergils Aeneid. An analysis of Homers Iliad and Odyssey compared and in contrast to Vergils Aeneid. They will familiarize themselves with the important aspects of epic literature as well as with the narrative structures of the literary works. The will discuss common characteristic themes of the epic works and develop an awareness for the strong connection between literary works and audiences in their social, political and cultural contexts. Students will learn the importance of the ancient epos for the history of western culture and its political and cultural discourse. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Identify important aspects of the Greek heroic age that are evident in Homers Iliad and Odyssey Recognize important issues of Virgils Aeneid in the context of the Augustan age and the function of the national epos to create a new imperial mentality of the Roman people Understand the narrative structure of primary epic literature Relate to the similarity and differences between the Greek and the Latin epic works Display a certain awareness of the cultural and social contexts as well as of the audience of primary epic Analyse common themes in primary epic including: divine intervention, the presentation of heroes and supernatural beings, the presentation of the tragic element, the antagonism between divine and human world, the questions of fate, predestination and free will: as well as the role of women Realize the strong connection of epic literature to history and mythos; politics and political ideologies: moral world views and gender questions. Synthesise material from lectures and recommended primary sources and secondary literature to use in oral and written discussion of set topics page 2 / 9

Attendance requirements(%): 90 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture, power point presentations (incl. film material), analysis of different source material (textual,visual, maps), interpreation of source material, discussion on secondary literature, student presentation Course/Module Content: 1. Introduction 1.1 Principle questions 1.1.1 Formal requirements, aspects of methodology, aims of the exercise 1.1.2 Subjects under discussion: history and mythos; social contexts; audience and author; political ideologies and moral world views; the heroic/tragic figure; gender; contents and form 1.1.3 Methodological approaches 1.2 Time frame, periodization of Greek and Roman History and the Augustan Age, definitions and terminology 1.3 The question of hermeneutics and interpretation: Greeks and Romans as the absolute Other in time and culture 1.4 The historical, political and social contexts: towards the political task of literature in antiquity. 1.5 A general introduction into the Greek World 2. The Literary Works 2.1 The Greek epoi 2.1.1 Homer, Iliad, esp. Songs 1, 4, 6, 9, 18 and 24. 2.1.2 Homer, Odyssey 2.2 The Latin Epos 2.2.1 A general introduction into the Augustan Age 2.2.2 Publius Vergilius Varo, Aeneid, esp. book 1, 2, 4, 6, 8.585-731, 12 Required Reading: הטקסטים: 1. הומרוס, איליאדה, תרגם מיוונית, כתב מבוא והוסיף הערות אברהם ארואטי, הוצאת ספרים ע''ש י''ל מאגנס, האוניבאסיטה העברית, ירושלים, תשע''ב. page 3 / 9

או: הומרוס, איליאדה, תרגם מיוונית שאול טשרניחובסקי, הוצאת עם עובד, תל אביב, תש''ע. 2. הומרוס, אודיסיאה, תרגם מיוונית, כתב מבוא והוסיף הערות אברהם ארואטי, הוצאת ספרים ע''ש י''ל מאגנס, האוניבאסיטה העברית, ירושלים, תשע''ג. או: הומרוס, אודיסיה, תרגם מיוונית שאול טשרניחובסקי, הוצאת עם עובד, תל אביב, תשע''ב. 3. פופליוס ורגיליוס מרו, אינאיס, תרגם מרומית והוסיף מבוא, הערות ומפות שלמה דיקמן, מוסד ביאליק - כרמל: ירושלים, תשכ''א. חלק א' של הקורס: על יוון משה עמית, תולדות יוון הקלאסית, הוצאת ספרים ע''ש י.ל. מאגנס, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושילים, ירושלים 3991, פרק א: תקופת המעבר והתהוות הפוליס, עם' 16-08. Joseph M. Bryant, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece. A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics, Albany, N.Y.: The State University of New York Press, 1996, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 9-39. Dean Hammer, "Homer and Political Thought", in; Stephen Salkever (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, pp. 15-41. G. S. Kirk, "2. Homer. 1. The Poet and the Oral Tradition", in: P. E. Easterling, E. J. Kenney (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 1 Greek Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985ff., pp. 42-51. G. S. Kirk, "2. Homer. 2. The Iliad", in: P. E. Easterling, E. J. Kenney (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 1 Greek Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985ff., pp. 52-74. G. S. Kirk, "2. Homer. 2. The Odyssey", in: P. E. Easterling, E. J. Kenney (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 1 Greek Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985ff., pp. 74-91. Donald Lateiner, "The Iliad: an unpredictable classic", in: Robert Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 11-30. Stephen, Scully, "Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight", in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 101 (2003), pp. 29-47. Michael Silk, "The Odyssey and its explorations", in: Robert Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, page 4 / 9

pp. 31-44. Oliver Taplin, "Introduction", in: idem (ed.), Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A new Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. 1-17. חלק ב' של הקורס: על רומא צבי יעבץ, אוגוסטוס נצחונה של מצינות, תל אביב, דביר, 1994, פרק י''ח אוגוסטוס והפרינקיפאט בשירה, ה. ורגיליוס, עם' 286. 276 "מבוא", בתוך: פופליוס ורגיליוס מרו, אינאיס, תרגם מרומית והוסיף מבוא, הערות ומפות שלמה דיקמן, מוסד ביאליק - כרמל: ירושלים, תשכ''א, עם' 35-9. W A. Camps, An Introduction to Virigl's Aeneid, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1969, chapters 2 and 3: pp. 11-30 (notes pp. 145-148). Jasper Griffin, Augustan Poetry and Augustanism, in: Karl Galinsky, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 306-320. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution, in: Thomas Habinek, Alessandro Schiesaro (eds.), The Roman Cultural Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 3-22. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Augustan Rome, Bristol Classical Press, 1993, chapter 1 and 2, pp. 1-24. R. Deryck Williams, "The Aeneid", in: E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 2 Latin Literature Part 3: The Augustan Age, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1983, pp. 333-369. Additional Reading Material: 1.1 Greek literature 1.1.2 General Introduction: Greek history, culture and literature Joseph M. Bryant, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece. A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics, Albany, N.Y.: The State University of New York Press, 1996. P. E. Easterling, E. J. Kenney (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 1 Greek Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985ff. Moses I. Finley, The Ancient Greeks. An Introduction to their Life and Thought, New York: The Viking Press, 1966. page 5 / 9

Andrew Ford, From Letters to Literature. Reading the 'Song Culture' of Classical Greece, in: Harvey Yunis (ed.), Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 15-37. Simon Hornblower, The Greek World 479-323 BC, London - New York: Methuen, 1983. Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC, London New York: Routledge, 1996. Oliver Taplin, Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A new Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 2.2 Roman literature 2.2.1 General Introduction: Roman History, Culture and Literature Klaus Bringmann, A History of the Roman Republic, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. Karl Christ, The Romans. An Introduction to their History and Civilisation, Berkeley Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984. Denis Feeney, Literature and Religion at Rome. Cultures, Contexts and Beliefs (Roman Literature in its Context), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture. An interpretive Introduction, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. Martin Goodman, The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180, London New York: Routledge, 1997. Jasper Griffin, Latin Poets and Roman Life, London: Gerald Duckworth, 2008. Michael Grant, The World of Rome, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960, chap. 8: The Great Latin Writers, pp. 211-233. E. S. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. R. Laurence, J. Berry (eds.), Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire, London: Routledge, 1998. Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East, vol. 1 The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution, (ed. By Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers), Chapel Hill London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, A Companion to the Roman Republic, page 6 / 9

Malden Oxford Carlton: Blackwell Publishing 2006, esp. Part II, chap. 8: C. F. Konrad, From the Gracchi to the First Civil War (133-70); Part II, chap 9: W. Jeffrey Tatum, The Final Crisis (69-44), pp. 190-211. David Shotter, Augustus Caesar, London New York: Routledge, 1991. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Mutatio morum: the idea of a cultural revolution, in: in: Thomas Habinek, Alessandro Schiesaro (eds.), The Roman Cultural Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 3-22. Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990. צבי יעבץ, אוגוסטוס נצחונה של מצינות, תל אביב, דביר, 1994. טום הוללנד, רוביקון: הרפובךיקה הרומית, נצחונותיה והטרגדיה שלה, הוצאת יבנה 2006. ישארל שצמן, תולדות הרפובליקה הרומית, הוצאת מגנס, ירושלים, 1997. 2.2.2 On Roman Literature and Augustan poetry William W. Batstone, Literature, in: Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, A Companion to the Roman Republic, Malden Oxford Carlton: Blackwell Publishing 2006, pp. 543-563. St. Benko, Virgil's Fourth Ecloge in Christian Interpretation, in: Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Roemischen Welt (ANRW) II 31.1, Berlin New York: de Gruyter, 1981, pp. 646-705. Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, Virgil's Messianic eclogue, its meaning, occasion and sources. Three studies by Joseph B. Mayor, W. Warde Fowler, R. S. Conway, with the text of the Eclogue, and a verse translation by R. S. Conway, London; John Murray, 1907. Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture. An interpretive Introduction, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 225-287 (chap. V: Augustan Literature). Jasper Griffin, Augustan Poetry and Augustanims, in: Karl Galinsky, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 306-320. Jasper Griffin, Augustus and the poets: 'Caesar qui cogere posset, in: Fergus Millar, Erich Segal (eds.) Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, pp. 189-218. P. R. Hardie, Virgil, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. page 7 / 9

E. J. Kenney, Books and Readers in the Roman World, in: E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen (eds.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. II Latin Literature, Cambridge London New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 3-32. Peter Levi, Virgil. His Life and Times, London: Duckworth, 1998. Llewelyn Morgan, Creativity out of Chaos: Poetry between the death of Caesar and the death of Virgil, in: Oliver Taplin (ed.), Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A new Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 259-402. Anton Powell, Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus, London: Bristol Classical Press, 1992. Gavin Townend, Literature and Society, in: The Cambridge Ancient History (Second Edition), Volume X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C. - A. D. 69 (ed. by Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 905-929. Peter White, Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome, Cambridge., Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Peter White, Poets in the New Milieu: Realigning, in: Karl Galinsky, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 321-339. R. Deryck Williams, The Aeneid, in: E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen (eds.),the Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 2 Latin Literature Part. 3: The Augustan Age, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 333-369. G. Williams, Did Maecenas 'Fall from Favor?' Augustan Literary Patronage, in: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher (eds.), Between Republic and Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate, Berkeley, LA: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 258-275. צבי יעבץ, אוגוסטוס נצחונה של מצינות, תל אביב, דביר, 1994, פרק י''ח אוגוסטוס והפרינקיפאט בשירה, ה. ורגיליוס, עם' 286. 276 Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 5 % Project work 80 % page 8 / 9

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Assignments 15 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: In this subject Classical literature and sources are studied in translation. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is required. page 9 / 9