Session

Fall 2021

 Term

Y

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course will trace the epistolary form in a wide range of genres in ancient Greek literature exploring, among others, the following issues: reading, writing, and literacy in the ancient world; rhetoric and education; ancient literary criticism; the relationship between real letters and literary letters; fiction, fakes, and forgeries in antiquity; the ancient novel; sex and eroticism in Greek literature; friendship in Greek culture; public and private in the ancient world; and social status and hierarchy in antiquity. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 4106 6.00.

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