- CC 115 Texts and Contexts IICC 201 EV - Christ College SymposiumCC 215 - The Christian TraditionCC 255 - Interpretation: Self, Culture & SocietyCC 300 AX - Classical EpicCC 300 BX - Idea of the American WestCC 300 CX - African-American LiteratureCC 300 DX - Global and U.S. Health Care: Politics and PolicyCC 300 EX - J.S. Bach: Music, Faith, and Reason CC 300 FX - The Scientific Endeavor CC 300 GX - Christian Spirituality CC 300 HX - Creation Narratives CC 300 I - Revolution in Film: The 1960s and 1970s CC 325 AX - Religion and Contemporary Global Literature CC 325 BX - Literature at the MoviesCC 325 C - ExistentialismCC 325 DX - Visions of Japan: Literature, Tourism, and Culture CC 499 - Senior Colloquium
- CC 300 AX - Classical Epic
3 Credits
MWF 11:50-12:40 pm - Professor Farmer
Cross-listed with CLC 411 AX
Swift-footed Achilles, Man-killing Hector, Scheming Odysseus, Faithful Penelope, Pious Aeneas, Unlucky Dido—the most famous characters in arguably the best known epics in Western Civilization. In Classical Epic we will read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Vergil’s Aeneid, as well as the seminal and the most recent relevant scholarship on these epics as a whole and on many of the individual books therein. Although our approach will be fundamentally contextual - that is we will come to some understanding of the broader context that informs the composition and reading of the texts (e.g., cultural, historical, literary), both in antiquity and in the present day - we will also venture into areas such as narrative technique, the nature of oral poetry and written composition, Greek and Roman religion and philosophy, gender, and text as political propaganda. Texts include Fagle’s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, and Fitzgerald’s translation of the Aeneid.