CLS 200: Greco-Roman Literature and Culture

Class Program
Credits 3
Session Cycle
Both Fall and Spring
Yearly Cycle
Every Year

This course strives to communicate something of the broad perspective on human culture characteristic of classics at its best: an intense interest in the interconnections between areas that too easily become siloed off in their own disciplines: literature, art, philosophy, history, politics, warfare, and so on.  As its title suggests, the literature of the classical world is a special focus in this course, with readings in both Greek and Roman authors across a timespan that may range from Homer to the Christian authors from the end of the Roman Empire. But the course seeks to examine how developments in literature relate to developments in other areas of human life. This course often includes discussion of the legacy of classical Greek and Latin literature and thought in later periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.  All readings are in English.