Ancient Myth and the Modern World

Harvard FAS

This course is an introduction to the study of Greco-Roman mythology. Our primary goal will be to familiarize ourselves with some of the core texts that form this tradition. As we become "mythologically literate" in this extended universe, we will also pursue our second goal, surveying how modern readers have approached and responded to these myths. We will consider how the same set of myths can mean radically different things to different people in different periods, and how they have been…