Classical Backgrounds of Literature in English

A study of selected works of Greek and Latin literature in translation in relation to the development of English-language literature. Topics may include the epic, the development of tragic drama, and lyric and satirical poetry, and the theory and practice of translation. Authors may include Sappho, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace, Tacitus, Livy, Juvenal, and Lucretius, read alongside selections from English language authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Joyce, Eugene O’Neill, Robert Lowell, Spike Lee, and Anne Carson

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