CLASSICS 351
Spring 2022
COURSE SCHEDULE



Thursday, January 13: Introduction

Comedy, Part I: Misrule & Metacomedy

Tuesday, January 18: Plautus’s Casina (all); read pp. 1-10 in Christenson, Plautus: Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus

Thursday, January 20: Plautus’s Pseudolus 1-693

Tuesday, January 25: Plautus’s Pseudolus 694-1335

Comedy, Part II: Prostitutes & Their Clients

Thursday, January 27: Plautus’s Truculentus (all)

Tuesday, February 1: Terence’s Eunuchus 1-614; read pp. 1-3, 9-11 in Christenson, Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence

Thursday, February 3: Terence’s Eunuchus 615-1094

Tuesday, February 8: Terence’s Self-Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos) (all)

Thursday, February 10: Examination #1

Comedy, Part III: Identity Crisis

Tuesday, February 15: Plautus’s Amphitryon (all)

Thursday, February 17: no class

Tuesday, February 22: Plautus’s Menaechmi (all)

Thursday, February 24: Plautus’s Captivi 1-658

Tuesday, March 1: Plautus’s Captivi 659-1030; Response #1 due

Thursday, March 3: Group Projects

Spring Break: March 5-13

Comedy, Part IV: Comedy, Seriously?

Tuesday, March 15: Terence’s Adelphoe (all)

Thursday, March 17: Plautus’s Rudens 1-891

Tuesday, March 22: Plautus’s Rudens 892-1423

Thursday, March 24: Terence’s The Mother-in-Law (= Hecyra) (all); optional draft of Response #2 due

Comedy, Part V: Larger Than Life

Tuesday, March 29: Plautus’s The Braggart Soldier (= Miles Gloriosus) (all)

Thursday, March 31: Plautus’s The Pot of Gold (= Aulularia)

Tuesday, April 5: Examination #2

Senecan Tragedy: Cannibalism, Infanticide, Incest & Other Dysfunctional Family Matters

Thursday, April 7: Seneca’s Thyestes 1-622; read pp. vii-xxvi in Wilson, Six Tragedies

Tuesday, April 12: Seneca’s Thyestes 623-1112

Thursday, April 14: Seneca’s Phaedra (all); optional draft of Response #2 due

Tuesday, April 19: Seneca’s Medea 1-669

Thursday, April 21: Seneca's Medea 670-1027

Tuesday, April 26: Seneca's Trojan Women 1-523; Response #2 due

Thursday, April 28: Seneca's Trojan Women 524-1179

Tuesday, May 3: Group Projects

Final Examination: Tuesday, May 10, 10:30am-12:30pm

UA Final Exam Schedule and Regulations: https://registrar.arizona.edu/faculty-staff-resources/room-course-scheduling/schedule-classes/final-exams/final-exams-spring-2022


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