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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | CSTSB245001 |
| Course Title | Horror "Classics" |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Classical Studies |
| Instructor | Romano,Carman |
| Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2544 Ancient Greeks and Romans--authors, poets, and their audiences--recognized that narratives could induce fear in their consumers. This course creates an analogy between ancient and contemporary fear-inducing literature, and asks what work the horror elements do in each. To get at this question, we will visit "classic" figures of horror, including: monsters, witches, ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters, and human beings. Prepare to engage with Greek and Latin sources in translation as well as modern theories of horror. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Enrollment Cap: 25. If enrollment exceeds the cap, the following lottery criteria will be used. CSTS Majors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores), then CSTS Minors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores). |
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