Course fulfills general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degree. Course follows the development of tragedy as a genre from its origins to its transformations in the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and its reappearance in the Roman world in the Latin tragedies of Seneca. It considers the influences among the poets as well as the means by which Greek tragedy influenced Roman and later cultures. In addition to readings, a number of plays may be studied in visual form. Course work in English.
Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degrees.
Course studies the forms, contexts, and developments of comedy as a dramatic form in the Greco-Roman world. It also traces the development of New Comedy in the Hellenistic age and the translation and adaptation of New Comedy by the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence. Course work in English. Course fulfills the general requirement in literature for baccalaureate degrees. Course explores the various developments of and within Greek epic as a genre, from its beginnings in the Greek archaic age in the works of Hesiod and Homer through the various transformations it underwent in the works of later Greek and Roman authors such as Apollonius of Rhodes, Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius.