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Infusing Ancient Lit with Hip-Hop to Create an Epic Mashup

"Ancient Epic Tales," a class taught at SFSU by Prof. Alexandra Pappas, Assistant Professor and Raoul Bertrand Chair in Classics, breathes new life into Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" and Virgil’s "Aeneid" by exploring the similarities between the classics and contemporary hip-hop and pop music.  Please visit http://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/infusing-ancient-lit-hip-hop-create-epic-mashup to read an interview with Prof. Pappas regarding the connections between the two artistic forms.