CLAS 101 - Homer’s Iliad and the Myths of Tragedy

3 HU, WR
First Semester. 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. (Open to those who have taken Classics 100 or 206, but not both.) Lecture and discussion.

Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 60.
Mr. Van Nortwick

Next offered 2006-2007.

Credits: 3 hours