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Course Description

Summary

Let's dive head-first into the Aegean Sea, swim around in the waters once swum by Achilles and Odysseus, root around in sacrifices and altars, the occasional slaughter of beloved Patroclus, the blood-thirsty murder of Hector and also a host of would-be-suitors of Penelope (I won't lie, that becomes a bloody bloody mess, that one) before swimming over to the Ionic and Tyrrhenian Seas, chasing, if you will, on the heels of that squirrelly Trojan, Aeneas, who, weirdly enough, finds his way to what we know as Italy and becomes the founder of Rome well before Odysseus even makes it back to the shores of his beloved Ithaca. Go figure. While there, we'll revisit the ancient myths of horrifying abuse suffered by ancient Greek women at the hands of gods and demi-gods in Ovid's Metamorphoses, because it is useful to pair everything with a stark and tragic reminder of the transformational resilience of the least powerful among us when suffering trauma. It's the Greeks; it's the Romans; it's gonna be epic.