ENGLISH HONOURS - CC2 (SEMESTER 1, CODE – ENG-A-CC-1-2-TH/TU)

   CC2 (SEMESTER 1, CODE – ENG-A-CC-1-2-TH/TU)

 

 

EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE: 6 CREDITS(5 CREDITS THEORY AND 1 CREDIT TUTORIAL)

 

Group A: Social and intellectual background

 

Group B:

Homer, The Iliad (Books I and II) translated by E.V. Rieu,                                                                       Sophocles,  Oedipus the King,                                                                                                                                                        in The Three Theban Plays, translated by Robert Fagles

 

Objective – 5 marks (from Group B and Group C)

 

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B

(out of four, two from each text)

 

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B

(out of four, two from each text)

 

Group C:

Ovid, Selections from Metamorphosis,                                                                                                            'Bacchus' (Book III), Plautus,                                                                                                           Pot of Gold, translated by E.F. Watling OR Horace,                                                                                          Satires, I: IV in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius, translated Niall Rudd, Penguin, 2005.

 

Objective – 5 marks (from Group B and Group C)

 

 

 

Suggested Readings:

1. S.H. Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers

2. Aristotle/Horace/Longinus: Classical Literary Criticism, Translated with an Introduction by T.S. Dorsch, London: Penguin Books

 

End Semester Question Pattern:

 

Objective – 5 marks (from Group B and Group C)

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B

(out of four, two from each text)

Two questions of 15 marks (one from each text) from Group B

(out of four, two from each text)