Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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GK 3110 - Archaic Greek Poetry
Readings in Greek epic and didactic poetry (Homer, Hesiod) and the lyric poets (Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, etc). Emphasis on poetic form and poet’s social function.
Requisites: GK 2120
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire an ability to read and perform heroic hexameters and such other verse forms as elegy and iambic.
- General knowledge of modern controversies concerning Greek epic and lyric poetry.
- Refinement of literary interpretative skills.
- Refinement of research skills and research writing.
- Understanding epic and lyric in the context of archaic Greek.
- Understanding of ancient heroic tradition and heroic poetry.
- Understanding of broad humanistic relevance of Greek epic and lyric poetry.
- Understanding of oral composition.
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