An entry-level course in literary studies for 21 students. Myths and texts studied included:
Pygmalion
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Pygmalion story in book 10
Pamela Espeland and Catherine Cleary, The Story of Pygmalion
Marilyn Sachs, The Fat Girl
Atalanta and Meleager
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Atalanta story from book 10 and Meleager and story in book 8
Betty Miles, “Atalanta” from Free to Be…You and Me (plus accompanying video)
Stephanie Spinner, Quiver
Demeter, Persephone, and Hades
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Ovid, Metamorphoses, the story of Pluto, Ceres, and Proserpine in book 5
Sally Pomme Clayton and Virginia Lee, Persephone
Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool
Monsters and Perseus
Edward Tripp, The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology, entries for various monsters and Perseus
John Harris and Calef Brown, Greece! Rome! Monsters!
Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Venom
Theseus and Ariadne
Ovid, Metamorphoses, story of Theseus in book 8
Tracy Barrett, Dark of the Moon
Alan Gibbons, Shadow of the Minotaur
Philoctetes and Sirens
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Mermaid”
Donna Jo Napoli, Sirena
Midas
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Midas story in book 11
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, “The Golden Touch” and “Shadow Brook” framing pieces
Rosemary Wells, Max and Ruby’s Midas
Neil Shusterman, The Eyes of Kid Midas
Orpheus and Eurydice
Vergil, Georgics, Orpheus story in book 4
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Orpheus story in books 10 and 11
Katherine Marsh, The Night Tourist
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Orphea Proud