Classics and the Western Canon discussion

Here is an updated 11 week reading schedule for The Library of Greek Mythology. Maybe listing the first section heading along with the numbered chapter headings will help members with different editions discern each week's discussion better?

30-Sep	Book I: 1. Theogony
		Ouranos, Ge, and the birth of the Titans
7-Oct	Book I: 2. The Deucalionids
		Prometheus and early man
14-Oct	Book I: 3. Jason and the Argonauts
		Pelias orders Jason to fetch the golden fleece
21-Oct	Book II: 4. Early Argive mythology
		The early descendants of Inachos
28-Oct	Book II: 5. Heracles, and the Heraclids
		The birth and early life of Heracles
4-Nov	Book III: 6. Cretan and Theban mythology
		The abduction of Europa to Crete. . .
11-Nov	Book III: 7. The Theban Wars
		Eteocles and the exile of Polyneices to Argos
	Book III: 8. Arcadian mythology
		Lycaon and his sons
18-Nov	Book III: 9. Laconian and Trojan Mythology (the Atlantids)
		The Pleiades
	Book III: 10. The Asopids
		Aiacos in Aegina
25-Nov	Book III: 11. The kings of Athens
		Cercrops and his descendants; the story of Adonis
	Epitome (the rest of chapter 11)
2-Dec	Epitome: 12. The Pelopids
		Tantalos
	Epitome: 13. The Trojan War
		The Judgement of Paris and the abduction of Helen
9-Dec	Epitome: 14. The Returns & Book as a whole
		Menelaos and Agamemnon quarrel; Calchas and Mopsos

Note: These book divisions are from theApollodorus. (Robin Hard, Translator) The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics) . OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition. If your edition is different, let us know what it is and the moderators or another group member may be able to help you out.

I was torn between 6 or 7 weeks and this 11 week schedule. I went with 11 weeks because while the stories are short, there are many of them to discuss. Also the Dec 15 end date puts us a little closer to the Holidays.

Note: Updated 9/20 with section headings.

The book divisions (I-III, and Epitome) are used in editions of the Greek text, and standard, and there are what amount to continuous paragraph numbering for more precise references. But the topical subdivisions are not marked and labelled, and it is up to the translators to let the reader know when the subject has changed.

Hard's breakdown is fairly transparent. I think that he offers far and away the best guide to the contents in any of the four translations I've seen. But if someone actually needs it, I'm prepared to cross-reference Hard's divisions to either of two other translations (there are two more that I don't currently have).

The more recent is R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, "Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology." I'm using its Kindle edition -- from which I may be able to get approximate page numbers on at least one of my platforms.

The second is Frazer's old (1920s) Loeb Classical Library edition, with facing Greek text, using either page numbers (from pdfs), or section numbers, which are also found in the Delphi Classics Kindle edition. (The sections there are most easily followed at the end of the of Delphi arrangement, where paragraphs of Greek text alternate with the English translation, making the breaks easier to spot than as numbers embedded in the text, so I'd prefer to go with the section numbers only.)

The reading schedule is the same but has been updated with section headings to help those with different editions.

David wrote: "30-Sep Book I: 1. Theogony
Ouranos, Ge, and the birth of the Titans..."

The description should include the rise of Zeus and the Olympians, the children of Zeus, and the revolt of Typhon (an Earth-born monster).

Ian wrote: "The description should include the rise of Zeus and the Olympians, the children of Zeus, and the revolt of T..."

The first week includes those sections, but as noted above, I only listed the first section heading to avoid posting the full TOC which makes for an awkwardly large reading schedule.

So for the first week we will discuss everyting from the opening chapter up to but not including "Book I: 2. The Deucalionids: Prometheus and early man

My apologies. The schedule was off and I did not catch it until now. The last week of discussions for The Library of Mythology will begin on 12/9 and not 12/16 as previously posted. I have edited the schedule above to reflect the correct dates.

The interim read will begin on 12/16.