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In this semester-long discussion seminar we will use the same close reading techniques employed in the fall 2020 freshman seminar, Great Books, AS.360.133 (this is not a pre-requisite), but we will slow down a bit and enlarge the scope of our discussion, exploring, in turn, each work’s historical context; genre or mix of genres; and authorial approaches to character development, thematic unity, and stylistic variation. For the first part of the semester course readings will include Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, and Milton’s Paradise Lost. During the second part of the semester we will explore retrospective echoes in later writers: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of an Ex-Slave, and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.