The Pot of Gold and other plays (tr.) Watling
Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
Petronius, Satyricon (tr.) Arrowsmith
xerox packet *
For reading (OR = on reserve); (opt. = optional)
| Lecture Topics | Readings |
| Ten Commandments | Exodus |
| Ten Commandments | same as above |
| Orpheus (Orphee) | Surrealism, Jean Cocteau |
| Fugitive Kind (T. Williams) | Orpheus Descending |
| The Seven Samurai | [handout] |
| Mighty Aphrodite (W. Allen) | [handout] |
| Go Tell the Spartans | Herodotus |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Plautus' Pseudolus and Braggart Warrior |
| Spartacus (Republic vs. Empire) | Plutarch “Crassus” |
| Caesar/Cleopatra | Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra |
| Ben Hur (Empire & its adversaries) | Wallace's Ben Hur (OR) |
| Fellini Satyricon | Petronius, Satyricon |
| Fall of the Roman Empire
(Empire vs. Republic, revisited & revised) |
Gibbon/Durant (OR) |
| Star Wars Trilogy | Asimov Foundation Trilogy (OR)
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (OR) |
(LD)
** The xerox packet mentioned above contains outlines of films,
questionnaires and questions for the hour and final exam as
well as topics for term papers.
For further information about films, please use http://www.imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com If this web site does not have
information about the film in question, the film probably does not yet
exist.