Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Gods and Heroes: Epic Literature of Ancient Greece and Rome

CLAS 2326  Gods and Heroes: Epic Literature of Ancient Greece and Rome

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Students read a selection of seminal works of narrative and didactic Epic from Ancient Greece, the Hellenistic World, and Rome, and examine the interconnections between them. Students learn how the works of Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and others, have been informed by earlier Epics from the Ancient Near East and traditions of oral and performed poetry, and how these works have informed subsequent Western literary cultures. This course may be credited towards English Studies.