This course continues the “Great Conversation” of the Western tradition by focusing on the medieval synthesis of the classical and the Christian visions expressed by Dante in the Divine Comedy and Milton in Paradise Lost. Both Dante and Milton use the epic form to express comedy and tragedy, respec…
Dr. Warren Gage and Steve Jeck
The founding father of comedy, Aristophanes, gives shape to the three tiers of cosmography of the genre of comedy in his plays -Frogs, Peace, and Birds. Aristophanes writes at the tail end of the Peloponnesian War.