Classics 225 - Homer's Odyssey

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Bard College

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Description:

An intensive, semesterlong reading of Homer's Odyssey. This course is designed to introduce first-year students to more profound and sophisticated techniques of reading and thinking about texts than they have thus far encountered. After two sessions, in which students are introduced to the issues particular both to this genre (the archaic Greek world, oral composition, the Homeric Question) and to this particular text, they read through the epic at a rate of two books per week. The semester concludes with a look back at literary and cultural issues raised by this essential document of the Western tradition: travel as a narrative vehicle for (self-)discovery and the competing satisfactions of the journey and the arrival.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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