Next Offered:2008-09 Semester Offered: First Semester Credits (Range): 3 Hours Attribute:3 HU, WR
Critical study of Homer’s Iliad, the First example of the tragic perspective in western literature, selected tragic dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization. Lecture and discussion. Enrollment Limit: 60. Instructor: T. Van Nortwick Prerequisites & Notes Open to those who have taken Classics 100 or 206, but not both.