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GKROMST 3ER3

EPICS OF ROME

Undergraduate

This course will examine the great epic poems of Vergil, Ovid and Statius, studying them in the political and cultural context of contemporary Rome …

Fall 2026 · C01

Readings

  • Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
    Statius · Required
    ISBN 9780801886362
  • Golden Ass
    Apuleius · Required
    ISBN 9780140435900
  • Aeneid
    Vergil · Required
    ISBN 9781984854124
  • eText Metamorphoses: A New Translation - Lifetime Access Ed: 1
    Ovid · 1 · Required
    ISBN 9780393072433; 9780393326420
  • Voyage Of The Argo: The Argonautica Of Gaius
    Seneca (Ed) · Required
    ISBN 9780801861789
Fall 2026 · C01

This course will examine the great epic poems of Vergil, Ovid and Statius, studying them in the political and cultural context of contemporary Rome …

Readings

  • Virgil – The Aeneid (translation by Shadi Bartsch)
    Required
  • The Metamorphoses, a new translation by Charles Martin
    Required
  • Statius – The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes (Charles Stanley Ross translation)
    Required
  • Valerius Flaccus – The Voyage of the Argo (translated by David R. Slavitt)
    Required
  • Apuleius – The Golden Ass (translation by E.J. Kenney)
    Required
  • Aeneid 1-2
    See source
  • Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translations) Catullus 64
    See source
  • Aeneid 2-6
    See source
  • Aeneid 6-10
    See source
  • Aeneid 10-12
    See source
  • Metamorphoses 1-5
    See source
  • Metamorphoses 6-10
    See source
  • Metamorphoses 11-15
    See source
  • Thebaid 1-6
    See source
  • Mid-Term Test – November 10 Thebaid 7-12
    See source
  • The Voyage of the Argo 1-4
    See source
  • Apollonius: The Argonautika (Peter Green Translation)
    See source
  • The Voyage of the Argo 5-8
    See source
  • The Golden Ass 1-6
    See source
  • The Golden Ass 7-12
    See source
  • Final Exam
    See source
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