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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Death and Desire in Imperial Rome

Course Information

Subject: Comparative Literature (CL)
Number: 315
Language of Instruction: English

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 45 contact hours, 3 semester credits, 4 quarter credits

Availability

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Summary

Introduces Classical Latin authors who reappear frequently in modern European vernacular literatures: Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace, Seneca, Plautus, Cicero, Livy, and Suetonius. Explores the leitmotifs of love projected against fate and death in various literary patterns. Focuses on the interpretation of works of wide generic diversity, while giving some attention to classical theories of historiography and biography.

Full Description

Introduces Classical Latin authors who reappear frequently in modern European vernacular literatures: Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace, Seneca, Plautus, Cicero, Livy, and Suetonius. Explores the leitmotifs of love projected against fate and death in various literary patterns. Focuses on the interpretation of works of wide generic diversity, while giving some attention to classical theories of historiography and biography.

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Death and Desire in Imperial Rome

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