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This section is an Intensive Writing section and requires registration in
COAS W333.

In this section of H211, we will read nine "old war stories," ranging in
theme and tone from Homer's heroic account of the triumph of the Greeks in
the Trojan War in The Illiad to Shakespeare's savagely satirical account
of the actions of those same Greeks in his bitterly anti-heroic play
Troilus & Cressida.  In addition to several contemporary accounts of the
war which destroyed the high classical civilization of Greece, The History
of the Peloponnesian War. By comparing the several views of war we should
gain an insight into the nature of war itself, and of its powerful
attraction for great writers, both those who glorify it and those who
unmask its horror and pointlessness.

The written work for the course will consist of  three 3-5 page critical
papers and a 6-10 page creative paper. The texts for the course will be:
The Illiad of Homer; War Music, a contemporary free translation of books
16-19 of  The Iliad which superimposes a modern morality on Homer's
ancient heroic values; The Aenead of Virgil; Trojan Women of Seneca;
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War; Njal's Saga; Lucan's Civil
Wars; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and Shakespeare's Troilus &
Cressida.