Professor Robert Gurval  MORE »
Robert Gurval is associate professor and former chair in the UCLA Department of Classics. He is currently the faculty chair that supervises the teaching of all General Education courses at UCLA. He is the author of Actium and Augustus, a study of the political propaganda and poetry following the naval defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium. His main research interests focus on the intersection of politics and literature in imperial Rome. He received the distinguished teaching awards from UCLA Honors program, UCLA College (the Eby Award) and the American Philological Association. Among his courses, he regularly teaches the large lecture course on ancient Rome (over 300 students), Latin reading courses, including Virgil’s The Aeneid and undergraduate seminars for the Honors program on a wide range of topics including the Hollywood myth of ancient Rome and representations of Cleopatra from antiquity to HBO’s Rome..

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Follow in the footsteps of mythical Aeneas, the refugee Trojan soldier who found Rome in Virgil’s The Aeneid. As we retrace Aeneas's epic journey with Classics Professor Robert Gurval, we will investigate the many layers of history and myth in legendary ports of call. From aboard the Corinthian II, we will cruise to the site of ancient Troy at Canakkale, Turkey; Greek islands, including Delos and Crete; the site of Carthage in Tunisia; and Italy, Aeneas’s adopted land, where we will stop in Syracuse, Trapani, Naples and finally, the eternal city of Rome.

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