LIT 057 - (LT) Sex and the City: The Literature of Love in Ancient Rome

Semester Hours: 3

Periodically
A survey of the literature of love of the Republican and Augustan periods of antiquity, focusing on the special relationship that love poets established with the thrilling eternal city, the sophisticated, multicultural, never-sleeping, ancient Rome. Authors to be read include Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid.