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  • CLAS E-116/W Concepts of the Hero in Classical Greek Civilization (Fall)
CLAS E-116/W Concepts of the Hero in Classical Greek Civilization
Fall term (13404)
Gregory Nagy, PhD, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.
Kevin McGrath, PhD, Associate in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.
Course tuition: noncredit $1,025, undergraduate credit $1,025, graduate credit $1,950.
Online only, beginning Sept. 2. Required sections Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 pm. Writing-intensive course. Lecture 1 video.
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The readings, all in English translation, are the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, seven tragedies (Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Sophocles' two Oedipus dramas, and Euripides' Hippolytus and The Bacchic Women), and two dialogues of Plato (the Apology and the Phaedo, both centering on the last days of Socrates); also, selections from the New Testament, especially from the Gospel according to Mark, and from the dialogue On Heroes by an eminent thinker in the second sophistic movement, Philostratus. The recorded lectures and supplementary proseminar sessions are from the Harvard Faculty Arts and Sciences course Culture and Belief 22. (4 credits)

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