ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance

Fall (3) Hagedorn

This course surveys epics and romances from Ancient Greece, Classical Rome, and Medieval France, Germany, and Italy. Readings (in translation) may include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; Virgil’s Aeneid; selected Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival; and Dante’s Inferno. Readings may also include English works in the epic and romance traditions.