Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degrees. Classical myths with illustration of their role in classical and modern literature and art. Course work in English. Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degree. Illustrates the importance of classical antiquity for our Western tradition.
Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degree.
Course work in English. Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degrees and the writing-intensive requirement. Course follows the development of tragedy as a genre from its origins to the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and its reappearance in the Roman world in the tragedies of Seneca. It also considers the influence of Greek tragedy on Roman and later cultures. In addition to readings, some plays may be studied in visual form.