A. HEROIC MODE

Discussion 8

Discussion 9

Texts

*Homer. The Iliad. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

*Additional text: Heroic mode in Literature; the Iliad

Images

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

*Napoleon Crossing the Alps at St. Bernard (1800?; Malmaison, National Museum)
*Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799; Paris, Louvre)
*The Oath of the Horatii (1784; Paris, Louvre)
*Leonidas at the Thermopylae (1814; Paris, Louvre)

Music

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

*Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
1. Allegro con brio

*Egmont, Overture No. 1 in F minor, Op. 84

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

*Thus Spake Zarathustra, Op. 30

Robert A. Schumann (1810-1856)

Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61, Allegro molto vivace

Additional text: Heroic mode in Visual arts and music