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GRST 182 - Lightning Thieves and Clashing Titans: Adapting the Ancient World

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)
From the Percy Jackson series to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the mythology and history of Greece and Rome continue to provide a source and a setting for new and exciting works of fiction even today. In this course you are invited to explore modern adaptations of ancient tales across a variety of media, from novels and poems to films and graphic novels. We look at why these millennia-old stories have retained their ability to fascinate and inspire, and we also investigate the dynamics of adaptation. How, for example, should an author balance fidelity to ancient sources with the desire to tell a story that resonates today? And how much do these authors’ stories tell us about the time and place about which they are writing, as opposed to the time and place in which they are writing? This course builds to a final project where students have the opportunity to compose their own adaptation in a medium of their choosing. Readings may include The Lightning Thief; The Last of the Wine; I, Claudius; Lavinia; and The Three. Thomas Beasley.

Two 75-minute periods.



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