Fall 2018  |  CNES 1913 Section 001: Homer's Odyssey and Politics (34951)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Seminar
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 340
Enrollment Status:
Closed (19 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Homer's Odyssey is the story of a man who returns from war to find a world much different from the one he left ten years earlier - and one that seems to have no place for him. On his way home, he lies to some, robs and murders others and, arguably through his own negligence, loses all his men. Once back on his native island of Ithaca, he re-establishes his authority as local strong-man through a mass killing of rivals. He is nonetheless emphatically a "hero" and the moral and political center of the story: what Odysseus does is (in the storyteller's eyes, and those of most readers ever since) right and just. This seminar will use a close reading of the Odyssey, a study of Season One of House of Cards, and considerable discussion of contemporary political and social events to ask what sort of political and social world Homer's poem imagines; how it formulates and discusses power and justice; and how it encourages its audience to accept judgments about human behavior and "what is right" that may, upon reflection, seem horrifying.
Class Description:
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