CLASS 3642 - [Greeks, Romans, and Victorians]

(crosslisted)
(also COML 3820)(HB) (LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

F. Ahl.

This course explores how 19th-century (and especially Victorian English and Irish) poets, dramatists, and to a lesser extent, novelists, present Greco-Roman antiquity. The varied influences of Vergil and Homer, Seneca and Sophocles, Plautus and Aristophanes, Horace, and Greek lyric poetry will be discussed in selected works of Thomas Moore, Shelley, Byron, Swinburne, W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, and the pre-Raphaelites and Victorian poets.