Sylabus
The topics
Fundamental texts (the first four lessons and throughout): Homer’s Greek Odysseus (see Murray's prose translation e.g. here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136:book=1:card=1), Latin Ulysses of Dictys Cretensis (see Frazer's translation: https://www.theoi.com/Text/DictysCretensis1.html)
March 20: Classical texts in Christian hands (basic methods of allegorical interpretation)
March 27: Trojan war as a historical paradigm (Vergil, Geoffrey of Monmouth)
April 3: Dante Alighieri’s sinful Ulysses
April 10: Medieval Penelopes (Ovid, Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan)
April 17: Wise, travelling kings (Vita Apollonii regis Tyri)
April 24: Courtly travelers (stories of Tristan and Iseult, Chrétien de Troyes)
May 15: Modern echoes I. (James Joyce...)
May 22: Modern echoes II. (Ezra Pound...)
