CL5425
Classical Reception
2016-2017
30
15
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2016-2017
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
This module offers the opportunity to study an increasingly influential sub-discipline of Classics: ¿Reception Studies¿. The module will examine how and for what purposes classical culture is perceived and transmitted; evaluate theoretical approaches and methods (both historicist and ahistoricist) to reading ancient texts ¿against¿ receiving texts; and test these approaches through targeted examples of the reception of Virgil and Ovid. While tutorial time will be devoted to the literary reception of Augustan epic, students will have the chance in coursework to undertake case-studies in other authors, ancient and modern, and/or to explore ¿reception¿ in non-literary contexts (e.g. art, film, theatre).