Sweet Homer, Chicago: A Summer Reading of the Iliad

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Homer’s Iliad has inspired audiences for nearly 3,000 years. This course will provide students with a rigorous but relaxed opportunity to study this seminal epic through close reading and discussion. Students will better understand the work itself, the culture that produced it, and the Iliad’s role as the “starting point” for all that came after.

Texts
  • Homer, Iliad
TAUGHT: SUMMER 2013