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Spring Semester 2016
  Tuesday, January 26
  Topics for today:
  -- Course overview and requirements
-- Project: Introduction
-- Using the course website
-- Discussion: What's so funny?
  Thursday, January 28
  Due:
 

-- Podcast: What is Comedy?
-- Podcast: Theaters and Theatrical Space
   
  Topics for today:
  -- The origins of Greek drama
-- The theater of Dionysus
-- Actors, choruses, and masks
  Tuesday, February 2
  Due:
 

-- Podcast: Athena and the Panathenaia
-- Podcast: The City Dionysia
-- MacDowell 1995.2 ("The Audience...Expectations")
   
  Topics for today:
  -- The Great Dionysia and the Lenaea
-- Athenian festivals
-- Project: Performance date
  Thursday, February 4
  Due:
  -- Podcast: Greek History from the 8th to 5th Centuries
-- Podcast: Who Was Pericles?
   
  Topics for today:
  -- The Persian Wars
-- Pericles and Athens
-- Stagings: Troupes, guidelines
  Tuesday, February 9
  Due:
  -- Podcast: Who Was Aristophanes?
-- Aristophanes, Acharnians (Lenaea 425, 1st place)
-- Reflections on Acharnians (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Acharnians
-- Project: Overview
  Thursday, February 11
  Due:
 

-- Aristophanes, Clouds (Dionysia 423, last place;  rev. after 419)
-- Podcast: Agon and debate in Athenian Culture
-- Reflections on Clouds (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Discussion: Clouds
-- The Socratic method
-- The agon or "contest"
  Saturday, February 13
  Due:
  -- Project: Qualifications (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, February 16
  Due:
  -- Aristophanes, Wasps (Lenaea 422, 2nd place)
-- Reflections on Wasps (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- SNL: The Day Beyoncé Turned Black
-- Discussion of Wasps
-- The parabasis or "stepping forward"
-- Staging: Alpha
  Thursday, February 18
  Due:
 

-- Podcast: Greek History from Pericles to the Melian Dialogue
-- Podcast: The End of the Peloponnesian War
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Comedy and the polis
-- Project: Duties, play chosen
  Tuesday, February 23
  Due:
  -- Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Lenaea 411)
-- Reflections on Lysistrata (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Discussion: Lysistrata
-- Staging: Beta
-- Video highlights: Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015)
  Thursday, February 25
  Due:
 

-- Aristophanes, Frogs (Lenaea 405, first place)
-- Podcast: Who Was Aeschylus?
-- Podcast: Who Was Euripides?
-- Reflections on Frogs (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Discussion: Frogs
-- Old Comedy to Middle Comedy
-- Midterm examination preview
  Tuesday, March 1
  Due:
 

-- Podcast: What is Tragedy?
-- Euripides, Ion (Dionysia c. 410)
-- Reflections on Ion (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Ion, tragedy or comedy?
-- Staging: Gamma
  Thursday, March 3
  Due:
  -- Euripides, Cyclops (Dionysia c. 408)
-- Homer, Odyssey 9
-- Reflections on Cyclops (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Cyclops
-- Satyr play versus comedy and tragedy
-- Video: Cyclops: A Rock Opera (selections)
  Saturday, March 5
  Due:
  -- Project: Treatment (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, March 8
  Due:
  -- Project: Treatment and DC comments
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Project: All-class meeting

  Thursday, March 10
  Midterm examination
  Tuesday, March 15
  Spring break
  -- No classes held
  Thursday, March 17
  Spring break
  -- No classes held
  Tuesday, March 22
  Due:
 

-- Podcast: Menander and New Comedy
-- Menander, Grouch (Lenaea 316, first prize)
-- Reflections on Grouch (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- New comedy versus Old Comedy
-- Video: Secret A**hole (Liz DeVito, Theater '12)
  Thursday, March 24
  Topics for today:
 

-- Project: All-class meeting
  Saturday, March 26
  Due:
  -- Project: Rough script (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, March 29
  Due:
  -- Menander, Girl from Samos (c. 310)
-- Reflections on Girl from Samos (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Girl from Samos
-- Staging: Alpha
  Thursday, March 31
  Due:
  -- Boyle 2006, chapter 1, "Staging Rome"
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Roman theaters and festivals
  Saturday, April 2
  Due:
  -- Project: Progress report 1 (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, April 5
  Due:
  -- Plautus, Rope (c. 211)
-- Reflections on Rope (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Rope
 -- Greek plays in Roman dress
-- Staging: Beta
  Thursday, April 7
  Topics for today:
  -- Project: All-class meeting
  Saturday, April 9
  Due:
  -- Project: Progress report 2 (by 11:00 p.m.)
-- Project: Final script (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, April 12
  Due:
  -- Plautus, Braggart Soldier (c. 211)
-- Reflections on Braggart Soldier (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Discussion: Braggart Soldier
  Thursday, April 14
  Due:
  -- Plautus, Pot of Gold (?195)
-- Reflections on Pot of Gold (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
 

-- Discussion: Pot of Gold
-- Alternate endings
  Saturday, April 16
  Due:
 

-- Project: Progress report 3 (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, April 19
  Due:
  -- Terence, Brothers (Games for Aem. Paullus, 160)
-- Other readings and podcasts TBA
-- Reflections on Brothers (by noon)
   
  Topics for today:
  -- Discussion: Brothers
-- Staging: Gamma
-- The Scipionic Circle
  Thursday, April 21
  Due:
  -- Terence "Author's prologues" from all plays
   
  Topics for today:
  -- The audience of Roman comedy
-- Project: All-class meeting
  Saturday, April 23
  Due:
  -- Project: Progress report 4 (by 11:00 p.m.)
-- Extra Credit review (by 11:00 p.m.)
  Tuesday, April 26
  Topics for today:
  -- Project: All-class meeting
  Thursday, April 28
  Topics for today:
  -- Project: All-class meeting
  Monday, May 2
  Evening:
  -- Project: Performance, 7:00 p.m.
  Tuesday, May 3
  Topics for today:
 

-- Project: What have we learned?
-- Course evaluations
  Wednesday, May 11
  Due:
  -- Reflections on Squirrels (by 4:30 p.m.)
 
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