Intensive study of selected major authors. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2019: Tragedy: The Motif of the Hero's Marriage. Euripides' Herakles, Sophocles' Trachiniae, Euripides' Hippolytus. Commonalities of theme and significance for the message of tragedy. Euripides' Bacchae. Relevance of the motif to Dionysian ritual and religion. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.