Through a broken lens? Reading fragments from the 2nd century

The Romantics treated the fragment as an art form; as students of antiquity, we tend to mourn the loss they represent and strive to recover as much of that loss as possible through them. In this course, we'll read a selection of poetic (epic, drama, satire) and prosaic (history, oratory) fragments in combination with a range of methodological and poetological discussions.