ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance

Credits: (3)
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.