Religion 272 - India and Greece

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Bard College

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Theology This team-taught course begins with the perennial question of shared Indo-European origins and what, if anything, we might posit as "history."Turning to rich and foundational cosmogonic and catastrophic myths operative in texts such as Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid' s Metamorphoses and in the Indic Vedas and Puranas, the course considers cosmological structures of time and space, and also varying possible relations between males and females both mortal and immortal. It continues to pursue these themes in the enduring epics, the Odyssey and the Ramayana. In a more intensive mode, reflecting the special scholarship of each professor, study turns to the interaction of ritual and sacred places in selected texts, principally the odes of Pindar and the edicts of Asoka. The course culminates with a revisiting of historical questions, examining evidence of direct contact between the two civilizations and how they represented each other as the other, the "barbarian."

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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