<p>Seminar, three hours. Designed for upper-division literature majors. Analysis of <cite>Iliad</cite>, <cite>Odyssey</cite>, <cite>Aeneid</cite>, <cite>Gerusalemme Liberata</cite>, and <cite>Paradise Lost</cite> both in relation to their contemporary societies and to literary traditions. Emphasis on how poets build on work of their predecessors. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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Classical Tradition: Epic

COM LIT 102

4 units