World Literature I

This course offers a select survey of major works of world literature from antiquity to the early modern world, with particular emphasis on classical Greek poetry and drama. There will be some emphasis on the historical background and social function of the texts under consideration, but reading and understanding the literature will be our main focus.

World Literature Syllabus

Course Resources—Literature and History

• Introduction to Greek and Roman Comedy
• Harvard Classics Prose and Poetry Recital Page
  Poetry recitals of ancient Greek and Latin poems (audio)
• The Perseus Digital Library
  Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome
• The Illiad as Oral Formulaic Poetry
• The Odyssey Game: Choose your character
• Encyclopedia Mythica
  Encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion
• Was There A Trojan War?
• The Myth of the Trojan War
• Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
  from The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center's The Epic of Gilgamesh

Last updated August 19, 2008
by Greg McNamara