“... And Pyrrhus / with his left hand clutched tight the hair of Priam; / his right hand drew his glistening blade, and then / he buried it hilt-high in the king’s side. / This was the end of Priam’s destinies, / the close that fell to him by fate: to see / his Troy in flames and Pergamus laid low” (Aeneid, 2.740-6).
(originally Humanities A) has been part of the Core Curriculum of Columbia College for seventy-five years. Some titles have never left the required reading list: Homer, The Iliad; Aeschylus, Oresteia; and Dante, The Inferno. Others have rotated on and off. Today’s Literature Humanities includes works ranging from The Holy Bible and Augustine’s Confessions to Montaigne’s Essays and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Literature Humanities Syllabus 2022-2023 (109.27 KB)