INVENTED HISTORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This course examines the Trojan War from a historical perspective. Topics include the place of the Trojan War in historiography, material evidence for the war, debates about its historicity, and the Trojan War in literature, art, and other media. Canonical tales of Troy, such as the Iliad and Aeneid, will be studied alongside accounts from antiquity and the Middle Ages. All readings in English. Cross-list: CLAS 206 .