LS 658 - Revisiting the Classics

(3.00 cr.)

This course revisits some ancient classics to see what they have to tell us about the big questions-good and evil, life and death, suffering and redemption, God and humanity. Selections from the Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton converse with each other and with modern retellings in print and on film by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Derek Walcott, T. S. Eliot, Tom Stoppard, and William Young.