ENG361L - Ancient Roman and Early Christian Literature

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
Dual listed as REST 361L The literature of Rome from roughly 400 B.C. to 500 A.D. in translation. Readings include comedies by Plautus, Cicero’s prose, poetry of Catullus and Horace, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as well as literature of the early church (gospels and epistles). The course ends by examining an author who attempts to merge Christian and pagan traditions, such as Augustine or Boethius.