ENGL 2243 - Great Literature: Ancient and Medieval

This course introduces students to representative texts of Great Literature from the Ancient and Medieval periods that have had a literary, religious, and/or cultural impact upon the world. Selections read in the class may include The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Bible, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Confucius, The Ramayana, Vergil’s Aeneid, Augustine’s Confessions, The Koran, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Class 3.