GRST 341 - Topics in Latin Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s)
Only a handful of texts have influenced later artists, poets, and other creators as much as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which canonized for later tradition much of the body of stories known as Greek mythology in a sprawling Latin poem. In modern times some critics have read the Metamorphoses as an extended meditation on poetry-making itself, as a veiled subversion of the political ideology of the emperor Augustus, or — given the violence, sexual and otherwise, that pervades the poem — as a literary monument to Roman imperialism. Taking as our starting point the award-winning new translation by Stephanie McCarter, we will dive headfirst into the politics, metapoetics, and allusiveness of this infinitely mutable work of world literature.
Curtis Dozier.
Prerequisite(s): GRST 246 or permission of the instructor.
Two 75-minute periods.
Course Format: CLS
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