Greek Epigram and its Reception
CLASPHIL 2008
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Description
Discussion and presentations on epigrams of the Greek Anthology, chiefly those of the Hellenistic period (3rd c. to 1st c. BCE), with reception in Catullus, Horace, Martial, Latin Anthology; embedding in more capacious genres; in Greek epigram of the imperial, late antique and Byzantine periods; in humanist poets of the Renaissance and early modern periods (Poliziano, Florent Chrétien, Pontano, Marullo); English poetry of the 17th c. (Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton); the Modernists to the Beats (Pound, Eliot, H.D., Cavafy, Edgar Lee Masters, Kenneth Rexroth); reception in translation, all languages.
Recommended Prep
Greek or Latin at the 100-level or equivalent.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Classics, The
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
