EWL 211 Classical Literature
The major authors of ancient Greece and Rome have influenced subsequent Western literature and thought, and they retain their imaginative vitality today. This course will study the epics of Homer and Virgil, the development of tragedy in Aeschylus and Euripides, the comedy of Aristophanes, the lyric poetry of Sappho, Horace, and Ovid, and the verse essays and satires of Lucretius, Horace, and Juvenal. We will study the literature in English translation.