Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE NOVEL IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Shipwrecks, romance, travel, warfare, debauchery, and a man metamorphosed into a donkey. All appear in ancient Greek and Roman prose fiction, examples of which we will read in translation. Topics will include the form's origins, whether the term "novel" adequately defines the texts, and the works' ancient readership.