Assignments

Current Assignments
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Archive Assignments

Fall 2011 (DCE)

Fall 2010 (DCE)

Fall 2009 (DCE)

Fall 2009 (FAS)

Spring 2009 (DCE)

Fall 2008 (FAS)

Spring 2008 (DCE)

Fall 2007 (FAS)

Spring 2007 (DCE)

Fall 2006 (FAS)

Spring 2006 (DCE)

Fall 2005 (FAS)

Spring 2005 (DCE)

Fall 2004 (FAS)

Spring 2004 (FAS)

Spring 2004 (DCE)

Spring 2003 (DCE)

On this page you will find links to the current version of the course Assignments, when they are made available by Professor Nagy and the Head TFs. This page also contains archival Assignments for previous semesters, dating to the Spring semester of 2003.

Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization (which has previously been called The Heroic and the Anti-Heroic in Classical Greek Civilization) is offered as both a Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Division of Continuing Education (DCE) course.* As the course has evolved, the differences between the FAS and DCE offerings have decreased.

*Prior to the Fall 2009 semester, archive site pages may display the previous designations of LA C-14 for FAS courses, and CLAS E-116/W for DCE courses.

Dear all,

Here are several papers written in the course in 2008: three essays on Homer and Tales of Hoffmann, and five final papers. They were judged to be excellent by a jury of teaching assistants and students who had taken the class. We share them with you. They are not academic models for imitation (they are shown intentionally without teachers’ marks). Rather, we hope that the pleasure and excitement of the intellectual exercise felt by the authors of these papers will be also experienced by you as their readers.

We also would like to make a special note of an outstanding Classical paper written in the framework of the course: "The Dokimasia Painter’s 'Death of Aegisthus' and Aeschylus’ Oresteia." We share this scholarly investigation with you.

Yours,
Professor Nagy,
on behalf of the course TFs and student jurors