Course Description: This interdisciplinary course explores how myths, legends, sacred figures, and heroic narratives have been reimagined through visual art from antiquity to the modern world. Organized around thematic case studies, the course examines how cultures have used images to express political power, religious belief, civic identity, morality, beauty, suffering, and the heroic ideal across changing historical contexts. Through painting, sculpture, architecture, manuscript illumination, and material culture — together with selected literary texts and occasional passages in Ancient Greek and Latin — students will investigate the enduring transformation and reinterpretation of classical and cultural traditions over time.
DETAILS
Level: Various. Basic Ancient Greek and Latin would be helpful but not necessary.
Textbook: Instructor will provide materials
Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.
When
Mondays, 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
Cost
$250
