LINK: HOMER AND (PRE)HISTORY

Examination of the history, prehistory, and archaeology that frames and contextualizes Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Includes the transmission history of these epics from papyrus to manuscript to print, the nature of the Aegean Bronze Age as it forms the setting of the poems, challenges of nineteenth-century excavations, arguments about the "Dark Ages" in Greece, and the legacy of Homer in the early modern and modern eras with regard to education and western culture. Co-requisite: CL 260.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent.