Continuing and Distance Studies
Queen's University-
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InstructorR.D. GriffithE:mail: griffitd@queensu.ca Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 74823 |
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Message from the Instructor
My hope for this course is that, by considering what the Greeks and Romans found funny, we will be able to come to a deep understanding of how their society was structured, and what popular beliefs informed it. Even more that this, I hope, as I say at the very end of the textbook, that “if you will have learned anything about antiquity, it is that the Greeks and Romans didn’t take themselves too seriously, in spite of what the stodgy label ‘Classics’ might suggest.”
I studied Classics in Toronto and Athens, and have written books on Homer’s Odyssey and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and articles on many aspects of Greek and Latin literature. Although I have taught at Queen’s for twenty-five years, this is the first fully online course in which I have ever been involved. It’s been fun preparing this material for you; I hope you enjoy it as well.