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Apr 19, 2024
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CLAS 3110 - Gods and Heroes in Ancient Epic
The tradition of ancient epic poetry is dominated by three great works: the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey and the Aeneid of Vergil; the course focus. A number of other Greek and Roman epics also figure in the course. The works are read from a variety of angles, including myth, religion, history, poetic art and cultural discourse. Such broader concerns as cruelty and forgiveness, violence and humor, choice and consequence, home, family, friendship and personal devotion constitute the humanistic themes of the course.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Intimate familiarity with narrative, themes, and characters of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil’s Aeneid.
- Knowledge of formal aspects of Greek and Roman epic poetry.
- Knowledge of mythic background of Iliad, Odyssey, and the Aeneid.
- Knowledge of relevant historical and archaeological context (Bronze Age, Archaic Greece, Republican and Imperial Rome).
- Understanding of broad humanistic relevance of Greek and Roman epic poems.
- Understanding of oral composition and oral performance poetry (as distinct from written literature).
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