Classical Myth

Catalog description

GE-Human Culture: Foreign Culture/Human Diversity This course will investigate the Classical myths of ancient Greece and Rome in their cultural context. An overview of the principal myths shall be treated in order to discuss the relationship between myth and literature, and then the rather different relationship between myth and art, so as to understand better the nature of the sources for the myths and their use in Greco-Roman religion and epistemology. Prerequisite: ENGL 17000 .