MONOTHEISM ON OLYMPUS

Instructor: Prof. Dora C. Pozzi (Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages). Prof. Pozzi's Office: 660 AH. Departmental Office: 413 AH. Phone number: Leave a message at 743-3076. Please indicate when I can find you at your number. I check my messages every day, including weekends. E-mail: dcpozzi@mail.uh.edu  Conference hours: by appointment .

Course Format: Lectures and discussion. I will illustrate many topics with visuals from several www sites. I strongly recommend that you read the assignments before each class.
 

Course Requirements:

ATTENDANCE is required. Students who are absent  four classes will be dropped, unless those absences were caused by a serious reason they can document in writing.

TESTS: TWO TESTS and FINAL EXAM. The final is not comprehensive, but it covers general matters of interpretation.  Makeups will be given only for serious, documented reasons.

TWO PROJECTS. You will have the unique opportunity to do personal research using a multimedia program: PERSEUS: AN EVOLVING DIGITAL LIBRARY ON THE ANCIENT WORLD as well as other resources on the web.  Perseus is also available at UH in a set of four CDs, with vaster databases. Students may search these CD's in the Foreign Language Lab or from any Macintosh computer on campus.

GRADE DISTRIBUTION
Each test: 20%; each project = 20%;  final exam = 20% of the semester grade.

LIST OF BOOKS (ALL PAPERBACKS)

Required:

1) MORFORD, Mark and LENARDON, Robert, Classical Mythology,6th edition ONLY, Longman, 1998.  ISBN  0-8013-1954-4.
2) HESIOD, WORKS AND DAYS, THEOGONY. Transl. Lombardo. Hackett, 1993.  ISBN  0-87220-1791
3) THE HOMERIC HYMNS.  Transl. Shelmerdine.  Focus, 1995.   ISBN   0-941051-15-3
4) Euripides BACCHAE .  Transl. Esposito. Focus 1998.  ISBN 0941051420

Recommended:

1) Garland, R.  RELIGION AND THE GREEKS. Focus, 1994. ISBN  1-85399-409-X
2) Dowden, K. RELIGION AND THE ROMANS. Focus, 1992.  ISBN  1-85399-180-51)
3)  OVID, METAMORPHOSES. Translated by Rolfe Humphries.  Indiana University Press, 1955.  ISBN: 0-253-20001-6
4) Taube, Karl, AZTEC AND MAYA MYTHS (The Legendary Past), Univ of Texas Press, 1994.  ISBN 029278130X

OTHER READINGS  The schedule on line includes links to other materials.  Those that students are expected to read are marked [R], meaning "required."  Other links are optional (marked [O]); some are texts to read, some sites to explore.  I recommend that you look up as many of these as possible.  The sites are, obviously, open paths of exploration.