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Epic in Text and Image (3)
Introduces students to some of the greatest epics of the Western tradition--The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Parzival, The Divine Comedy,
and others--but also moves beyond the reading and discussion of the
texts themselves to study responses to these classic stories in ancient
and medieval visual arts. By combining the reading of the texts with
the study of related images and discussion of oral storytelling
traditions that lie behind the epic texts, the course attempts to place
the classic texts in the context of the evolution of storytelling, the
history of the book, the history of storytelling, and the history of
narrative media.
Satisfies the Heritages and Civilization general requirement. Fulfills the foreign language requirement for the School of Business.
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