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Classics Courses
- CLAS S-125 Summer Seminar—Myth and Poetry in Greece and Rome
CLAS S-125 Summer Seminar—Myth and Poetry in Greece and Rome (32860)
Class times: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 pm.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $2,700.
Summer seminars are open only to Secondary School Program juniors and seniors, and to college undergraduates.
Limited enrollment.
The mythical world of god and heroes as seen through the eyes of Greek and Roman poets. Emphasis on continuity and change in the formation of the poetic voice; on genre, narrative techniques, and story patterns; gender roles and fictional identities; the function of myth and religion; Greek and Roman cultural identities; and the interplay of past and present. Texts (in translation) include selections from Homer's Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns; Hesiod's Theogony; Pindar and the Greek tragedians; the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes; Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Seneca's tragedies. Whenever possible, Greek and Roman texts are read in close juxtaposition, for instance Virgil's underworld against Homer's, and Seneca's Oedipus play against Sophokles' Oidipous Tyrannos. (4 credits)
