Information concering April 29 exam


As indicated in handout, p. 28, the exam will be Friday, April 29, 10:00 - 11:50. The location is the regular classroom C. L. 239.
The exam will be cumulative, although with a greater focus on material since the Feb. 23 test.
Material to be covered includes the following:
Homer, Odyssey, Books 1, 5, 11, and 17-24. Also, In connection with Homer, you should know the terms epithet and patronymic, along with being familiar with the ancient, Analytic, Unitarian, Oralist, and neo-Analytic approaches to Homer, as presented in class.
Sappho, frs. 1, 16, 31, 44, 55, 58 (nos. as given in West)
Pindar, Olympian 1, 2
Protagoras, handout, p. 19
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
riddle of Sphinx, handout, pp. 24-25
Thucydides, handout, p. 26
Vergil, Aeneid, H&P, pp. 909-975; TSB, pp. 410-430; handout, pp. 28-29
Nonnos, handout, pp. 29-30.
Of course, not everything listed above will be directly covered on exam. Remember, though, that even a brief discussion of one specific passage can involve the mention of other passages too.
Part I (75%) will consist of about 16 short-answer questions, mainly passages for identification, similar to the February 23 test. As with the Feb. 23 test, some of the 16 or so questions will not deal with a specific passage, but will instead involve commenting on one or more other questions.
Part II (25%) will consist of one essay, for which a typical answer would probably comprise three or four paragraphs or so. (Extra exam booklets will be available, in case you write a great deal.) The essay will somehow deal with Teiresias and his role in e.g., Odyssey, Books 11 and 23, Antigone, and Oedipus Rex.