Mar 28, 2024  
College Catalog 2022-2023 
    
College Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GLAM 372 - Greece and Rome to the World: What’s Novel about Ancient Novels?


An exploration of some particular aspect of Greek and Latin literature—a work, an author, a genre, a theme—and its influence and repercussions in modern literature: how it is imitated, engaged, confronted, transformed. Topic is variable; may be repeated for credit. Lecture-discussion format, with an emphasis on writing, culminating in a final essay or a creative project. Topic for 2023: What is novel about the Greek Novel? Ancient Greek and Latin prose fictions are put in counterpoint with modern drama, novel, and film. Beginning with the ancestor of the ancient novel, Homer’s Odyssey, as retold in Gardley’s Black Odyssey, the course studies the pastoral romance (Daphnis and Chloe), Wha fantasy (The Romance of Alexander the Great), Menippean satire (Satyricon), folk tales (The Ass; Cupid and Psyche), and the ideal romance (The Ethiopian Tale). Side by side are a popular Irish novel, a modern Greek novel for children, a 16th century Spanish picaresque novel, a Soviet bureaucratic fantasy, and a Jamaican story of migration and the search for identity. Films include Pan’s Labyrinth, The Man Who Would Be King, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? 

Credits 1



Notes
This course is for majors and minors within the Greek, Latin, and Mediterranean Studies Department.

New course

Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Writing