Whatever Happened to the Epic?

by | Jan 25, 2025

by Jo Ann Cavallo. Anthem Press Blog. November 1, 2022   Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel for the first time as an...

The Classical Epic Tradition: from Homer to Milton

by | Nov 7, 2024

[The following is an upper-level undergraduate course taught by John Paul Russo, Professor of Classics and English, Chair, Dept. of Classics, University of Miami]   CLA 315/ENG 315                                                                                  ...
Teaching World Epics

Teaching World Epics

by | Oct 29, 2023 | Publications

Teaching World Epics offers strategies for teaching epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translation, including Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Beowulf, Giulia Bigolina’s Urania,...

Meschke, Odyssevs

by | Apr 29, 2023

Michael Meschke’s Odysseus – Saga of the Sea (1978) Text: Gösta Kjellin Music: Dómna Samiou Technique: Rod puppets Direction and puppets: Michael Meschke Guest performances: London (Puppet Theatre ’79 Festival) and Waasa in 1979; Palermo and Witten,...

Epic and Evolution

by | May 18, 2022

[The following is a demanding graduate level humanities syllabus designed and taught by Prof. Frederick Turner at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since most of the students had previously taken his more introductory epic course, in this course they could explore...
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