Alexander Sens Graduate Seminar, "Commentary writing: approaches and problems"

This seminar will ask students to examine several different sorts of commentaris on particular texts, with special focus on poems from the Greek Anthology. The goal is for them to become more self-consciously aware of the process of selecting and organizing material to be included in commentaries, as well as to confront problems that arise when one attempts to digest a literary text into a series of lemmata. In general, it will be an open discussion of approaches to commentary writing.