HONR 1110 - Foundations of Eloquence

4 credit hours
Formerly - HONR 111

Students in this class will study many of the important classical literary works whose forms gave shape to much of the literature written from the Middle Ages to the present time: e.g., epic (Homer and Vergil), tragedy (Euripides and Seneca), comedy (Aristophanes and Plautus), mythological tales (Hesiod and Ovid), satiric poetry (Horace and Juvenal), philosophical essays (Plato, Cicero, and Seneca), literary criticism (Plato, Aristotle, and Horace), and lyric poetry (Sappho, Catullus, etc.). Students will also prepare a research paper on a literary work written during classical times or one written at a later period that was modeled on a classical work.