Greek & Roman Epic

(4 Credits)

Detailed study of the epic from its earliest form, as used by Homer, to its use by the Roman authors. Concentrates on the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer and on Virgil?s Aeneid, but may also cover the Argonautica of the Alexandrian poet Apollonius of Rhodes and Ovid?s Metamorphoses, as well as the epics representative of Silver Latin by Lucan, Silius Italicus, and Valerius Flaccus.