Fall 2013 Readings in the European Tradition I Listed in: Classics , as CLAS-141 | European Studies , as EUST-121
Formerly listed as: EUST-21
Faculty Craig M. Russell (Section 01)
Description (Offered as EUST 121 and CLAS 141.) Topics in the past have included readings and discussion of a series of related texts from Homer and Genesis to Dante: Homer’s Iliad , selected Greek tragedies, Virgil’s Aeneid , selections from the Bible , and from medieval texts. Three class hours per week.
Required of European Studies majors. Open to European Studies majors and to any student interested in the intellectual and literary development of the West, from antiquity through the Middle Ages. Fall semester. Visiting Professor Russell.
Course times and locations EUST 121 - L/D Section 01
Textbooks Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.
ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
0140268863 Odyssey Penguin Group Homer/ Fagles, R.(tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0140442391 Troilus and Criseyde Penguin Group Chaucer/ Coghill, N. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0195289609 The New Oxford Annotated ible with The apocrypha Oxford Coogan, M.D. Required Amherst Books TBD 0199540330 The Love Poems Oxford World's Classics Ovid/ Melville, A.D. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0199540659 Vita Nuova Oxford World's classics Dante/ Musa, M. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0199554021 Phaedrus Oxford World's classics Plato/ Waterfield, R. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 9780226311517 Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Complete Greek Tragedies) University of Chicago Press Sophocles Required Amherst Books From $6.00-$23.98 0520254155 Aeneid Virgil/ Mandelbaum (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0801485746 Four Texts on Socrates Cornell University Press West & West (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0872203522 Iliad Hackett Publishing Company Homer/Lombardo, S. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0872203921 Bacchae Hackett Publishing Co., Inc. Euripides/ Woodruff (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0872209172 Inferno, the Hackett Publishing Co., Inc. Dante/ Lombardo, S. (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD 0872209237 Medea Hackett Publishing Co., Inc. Euripides/Svarlien (tr) Required Amherst Books TBD 158510308X Frogs Focus Publishing/ R. Pullins Aristophanes/ Henderson (tr.) Required Amherst Books TBD
These books are available locally at Amherst Books .
Offerings 2022-23: Not offered
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