Instructor: Dennis P. Quinn
Office: 9-312
Office Hours: M 3-5pm; TH 7-8am; TTH 12-1pm (by appointment)
Phone: 909-869-6733
E-Mail: dquinn@csupomona.edu

TEXTS:
David Grene and Richard Lattimore, eds., Greek Tragedy, Vol. 1 (Chicago, 1960).
Reader: IGE 121: The Ancient World (IGE Anthology, 2006).
Alta Jablow, transl., Gassire's Lute (Waveland, 1971).
Dennis Tedlock, trans., Popol Vuh (Simon and Schuster, 1996).

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This is the second course in your first year Honors IGE experience. Welcome! We are an interdisciplinary program which offers students an integrated approach to learning about literature, humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Like all other IGE classes, in 121 we value active learning over depositing information in a banking model of education and therefore we count on you to come to class prepared and ready to discuss your perspectives. Indeed, your active engagement with the course materials and your fellow learners, teachers included, is encouraged and expected. This course examines ancient people from around the globe, focusing the nature of tragedy; the ways of warriors, prophets, tyrants, philosophers, and citizens; ethics, convictions, and the sacred. We hope this will provide an opportunity for you to see connections between the ancient peoples’ hopes, dreams, desires, and fears across time and cultures with our own.

Syllabus: (Opens into a new window as a word file)

Online Readings
Please print out and bring to class

WEEK 1
Japanese Creation Myth

Rig Veda

Upanishads

WEEK 7
The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas

WEEK 8
Gospel of Thomas