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ENG-371 The Epic Tradition3 credits
Prerequisites: ENG-299T (any version)
This course considers how the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid modeled supreme literary achievement in Europe for more than two millennia, and how postclassical European writers wrestled with this daunting, but also inspiring, legacy of classical epic. Postclassical works may include Dante's Inferno, Milton's Paradise Lost, Alexander Pope's mock-epic The Dunciad, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Derek Walcott's Omeros.
