Darstellung / Vorschau

This course sets out to study in detail the functions of myth in Greek literature of the archaic period. In the course of this semester we shall focus primarily on the Homeric epics and on key myths related in the Hesiodic poems in order to examine how myth is deployed within these texts for both internal and external audiences.

The course will be assessed primarily by means of a mid-term (40%) and a final exam (40%), as well as an oral presentation on a piece of secondary literature on the Iliad (5%) and a written essay on the Odyssey (5%), and overall attendance and participation in class (10%).