Tragedy and the Athenian City. A thematic unit on cultic ritual deals with initiation, marriage and funerary rites, human sacrifice, and conflict between religious and secular authorities. A fourth unit on ancient analysis of tragedy compares how the ancient critics thought about the above subjects. Introduction to Latin Literature. This introductory survey of Classical Latin literature in translation extends from the earliest writings in Latin to the authors of early imperial Rome.
Students read and analyze selections from Roman comedy, tragedy, epic, lyric, letters, and satire.
They also read modern scholarship on the works, and learn about the world in which they were written. This course is the same as Classical and Medieval Studies 170. Ancient Comedy and Satire. Authors to be read include Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, Semonides, Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, Horace, Seneca, and Petronius. Open to first-year students.