These three images reflect the first three texts we will encounter this term, The Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.
All the members of the World Literature to 1500 will take part in the creation of this
blog to add to the class discussions and knowledge base, using all manner of materials, from hyper links about, say, a graphic novel about Gilgamesh, to video of a new game called Dante's Inferno.The previous two links point to ways in which these ancient epics remain very much part of our contemporary culture, including, of course, a very different Homer's Odyssey:
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