CLS 168 - Ancient Novel

Course Units: 1

(Not Offered this Academic Year) A survey of the novel and its development in antiquity. Readings include a selection of complete and fragmentary Greek romances by Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, Heliodorus, and Lucian. The Roman comic novels will be Petronius’s Satyricon and Apuleius’s Metamorphoses. All readings in English. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM