This course is an effort to introduce the students to some of the writing of the Ancient and Mediaeval worlds that couldn't be fit into the original Western Literature to Dante course. It is offered on occasion when exceptional students are interested in taking it. It requires an amount of reading similar to that of Western Literature to Dante, but presupposes that the student is already at least somewhat familiar with the material in the first course, and so spends less time explaining some of the background. It is perhaps ideal for students seriously looking at college study in classics.
Unlike the first course, it pays relatively little attention to the story of Troy, but goes into the Arthurian material at considerably greater depth.