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.
