This course surveys the origins of Western literature in Antiquity and spans the Early Modern period. Readings in representative early texts from Greece and Rome, the Medieval period, and the Renaissance introduce Cadets to literary history and the transmission of literature across time and place. Cadets explore the earliest experiments in drama, poetry, and the novel; the rediscovery of those models in later periods; and the legacy of customs and traditions that continue to shape us today. Topics may include Homeric epic, heroic virtue, the public and the private, faith and reason, and scientific discovery.
This course will focus primarily on the development of the Western literary canon from antiquity to the Early Modern period. Cadets may read from the works of Greek and Roman authors such as Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, from Medieval authors such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey Chaucer, and from Early Modern authors such as John Donne, George Herbert, Ben Johnson, and Miguel de Cervantes. Cadets will explore a variety of genres including, but not limited to, epic poetry, histories, drama, and lyric poetry. This course may take its focus from a central theme or idea and trace that theme or idea in the course texts.
This course will focus primarily on the development of the Western literary canon from antiquity to the Early Modern period. Cadets may read from the works of Greek and Roman authors such as Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, from Medieval authors such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey Chaucer, and from Early Modern authors such as John Donne, George Herbert, Ben Johnson, and Miguel de Cervantes. Cadets will explore a variety of genres including, but not limited to, epic poetry, histories, drama, and lyric poetry. This course may take its focus from a central theme or idea and trace that theme or idea in the course texts.
This course will focus primarily on the development of the Western literary canon from antiquity to the Early Modern period. Cadets may read from the works of Greek and Roman authors such as Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, from Medieval authors such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey Chaucer, and from Early Modern authors such as John Donne, George Herbert, Ben Johnson, and Miguel de Cervantes. Cadets will explore a variety of genres including, but not limited to, epic poetry, histories, drama, and lyric poetry. This course may take its focus from a central theme or idea and trace that theme or idea in the course texts.
