Harvard will offer a course based on 'Game of Thrones'

Speakers: Li Ningjing, Sam Duckett，and Lu Sirui

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Harvard will offer a course based on Game of Thrones. Finally, a way to justify all those hours spent binge-watching HBO.

The course titled "The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models" seeks to show how the movie, which is based on George R.R. Martin's series A song on Ice and Fire, echoes and adapts, as well as distorts the history and culture of the 'medieval world' of Eurasia  by exploring a set of archetypal characters at the heart of Game of Thrones — the king, the good wife, the second son, the adventurer, and so on — with distinct analogues in medieval history, literature, religion, and legend."

Listen to the show and find out if you are interested in enrolling in this course. 

The audio clip is from Studio+, produced by CRI.