Class Detail
LIT 121A - 01 The Heroic Epic
2023 Summer Quarter
Class Details
- Career
- Undergraduate
- Grading
- Student Option
- Class Number
- 70015
- Type
- Lecture
- Instruction Mode
- Synchronous Online
- Credits
- 5 units
- General Education
- Status
- Open
- Available Seats
- 23
- Enrollment Capacity
- 60
- Enrolled
- 37
- Wait List Capacity
- 0
- Wait List Total
- 0
OpenDescription
A survey and analysis of primary epic: Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Exodus. Distribution requirement: Poetry, Pre-1750.
Class Notes
***Topic: Milton and the Ancient Epics*** John Milton's role as an author, reader, and critic of the epic form offers a unique vantage point from which to study epic as a genre. Paradise Lost is a poem that simultaneously acts as the canonical English epic while defining itself in relation to the epic tradition that came before it. We will be challenging the idea of what makes an epic "heroic" and investigating Milton?s intervention into the legacy of the epic genre. We will read almost the entirety of Paradise Lost together as a class. We will also be reading selections from classical epics, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil?s Aeneid.
Meeting Information
| Days & Times | Room | Instructor | Meeting Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| TuTh 01:00PM-04:30PM | Remote Instruction | Multer,M.L. | 06/26/23 - 07/28/23 |