Laughter, Love, and Death: Introduction to Classical Literature I
Classics · 3 hrs Lecture
Offering schedule: contact department
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No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Where CLAS-2750 counts
Counts toward 1 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:
- CLAS HONOURS BA IN CLASSICS
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Description
Homer's Odyssey is a story of greetings and farewells, homecomings and departures, laughter and tears. Starting from a study of the Odyssey, this course traces emotions, gender relations, and human mortality across an assortment of works from the Ancient Mediterranean world. Students read texts in English translation from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, in verse and prose, across the genres of epic poetry, history, tragedy and comedy, oratory and more.
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and ENGL-2750.
Cross-listed
ENGL-2750(3).
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