21L.001 | Fall 2008 | Undergraduate

Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante

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Homer/Virgil Essay Prompt

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Assignment to write a substantial (eight-page) essay that makes an argument about one way in which Virgil engages with Homeric epic: how and to what effect he does it, and how it should affect our understanding of the Aeneid and, retrospectively, the Iliad and/or Odyssey.

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Homer/Virgil Essay Prompt

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