CLASSICS 201G: Greek Core I: History of Literature

Course Description

Partial coverage of the reading lists for translation and general reading exams, within a framework that introduces philological method, history of scholarship, hermeneutics and various approaches to the construction of literary histories. Emphasis on the continuity and intersection of genres over a millennium of Greek literature. Readings will include handbook treatments (19th to 21st centuries), selected articles on theory, and commentaries on a number of works from archaic poetry to the Second Sophistic. Weekly written exercises in stylistic analysis and interpretation; midterm and final exams. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.