How To Go To Hell

Susan Brown

Mondays, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
March 21 - May 9, 2005
D.O.C. House

People have always been interested in what happens to us after we die. Beginning with Gilgamesh, continuing on through some other early Mesopotamian poetry, Book 11 of Odyssey, Book 6 of Aeneid, and finishing up with a reading of Allen Mandelbaum's translation of Dante's Inferno, the class will explore the evolution of ideas about the Underworld.  There will be four books to buy and the Odyssey and Aeneid excerpts will be provided.

Class is limited to 12 members.

Susan Brown has lived in the area for thirty years. She holds degrees from Cornell and Dartmouth and has taught Latin and French for too long to mention. She has traveled extensively in Italy and Greece. In 2000 she won the Wiencke Award, presented by the Classics Association of New England, for excellence in teaching. Now retired and loving it, she divides her time between the Right and Left Coasts.