CLAS 223 The hero in Ancient Greece and Rome

This course will focus on ancient heroes in Greek and Roman myth such as Hercules Theseus Jason and those featured in the Trojan War. Ancient heroes partake of both the divine and mortal realms and as such help us appreciate the ways in which myths were used in order to interpret the world. We will consider the nature of the heroic through the depictions of ancient writers and artists and consider modern heroic ideals in relation to them.