Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Classics*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED LATIN: ROMAN EPIC ***** The course will take as its subject epic poetry in the Roman tradition. We will read early fragments of epic verse and selections from Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, Statius' Thebaid, and the Biblical epics of late antiquity. Topics of interest will include the nature of the epic genre, the development of Roman epic and its relation to the Greek tradition, the styles (including meter) of the individual epic poets, imitation in the epic texts, and the Christianization of Classical epic poetry.