1691 - Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis TUE 11:15AM-12:15PM
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Course Description
Instructor: Herbert Benario, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Emory University
The new movie version of Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur suggests that now may be an appropriate occasion to read this novel along with Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis -- possibly the greatest fictional treatments of important periods in the history of the Roman Empire. We shall discuss these novels against the historical background of the first century AD.
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