GR 523 Homer
Close reading and study of selections from Homer, principally the Iliad. Topics to be discussed in conjunction with the study of the text will include some or all of the following: the nature of oral composition (metrical and aesthetic aspects), the relationship of the Homeric poems to the wide-ranging (and largely lost) epic cycle, the scholiastic tradition, the emergence of the Christian Homeric cento in Late Antiquity. Requirement: two levels of college Greek.