GLAM 272 - 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. Lecture-discussion format, with an emphasis on writing, culminating in a final essay or a creative project. Starting with Eric Shanower’s graphic novel, Age of Bronze Vol. I, and ending with Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls, we will put ancient Greek and Latin epics and dramas in counterpoint with modern novel, poetry, and film. We will concentrate on Homer’s Iliad, Vergil’s Aeneid, Sophocles’s Philoctetes and Euripides’s Trojan Women. Film showings will include interpretations of Homer’s Odyssey: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Return (2024).

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Writing