January 30

Inferno i-ix

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Inferno i-xvi

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Inferno, xvii-xxv

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Inferno xxvi-xxvii

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Inferno, xxviii-xxxiv

Aeneid, pp. 158-185

Dante and Virgil recapitulation

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Dante, Purgatory i-ix

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Purgatory, ix-xxvii

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Purgatory, xxviii-xxxiii

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John of Patmos, Revelations (final book of New Testament)

Book of Revelation

19 Essay #1 due 5 p.m. in WebCT

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John of Patmos, Revelations (final book of New Testament)

Book of Revelation

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Augustine, Confessions, i-ii, pp. 3-31.

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Augustine, Confessions, iii-vii, pp. 35-125.

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Augustine, Confessions, viii-x, pp. 129-208.

March

Spring Semester, 2006  framework

Part One - epic synthesis: literary supersession - Aeneid; Dante's commedia (Divine Comedy, Canticas 1 and 2);

Part Two - Antithesis: confronting the other (John of Patmos and Augustine confront Rome and Greece) - Book of Revelation; Confessions of Augustine

Part Three - Philosophical Synthesis: Fourth Gospel, Boethius and Dante - Gospel of John, Consolation of Philosophy, Paradise

Part Four - Moral Synthesis: Nicomachean Ethics; Letters of Paul; Gospels; Canterbury Tales; Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Book of Revelation

John of Patmos as visualized by John Steczynski