CLST 125 - Community,Neighborhood and Family in Ancient Athens and Modern Philadelphia

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University of Pennsylvania

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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Rosen. This seminar will examine the social organization and ideological foundations of polis life in classical Athens, and will attempt to compare it with modes of socio-political organization in present-day Philadelphia. The course will examine the structure and functioning of an Athenian polis, how Athenian citizens fostered a sense of community at both the local and international level, and how they framed their questions about the goals of a society and the nature of happiness. We will consider how we might learn something from them about our own formulation of and answers to similar questions. Among the topics to be studied in the context of Athens and Philadelphia will be: notions of "community" and citizenship; attitudes toward the family; ethnic self-definition; notions of autochthony and "otherness;" myth-making as a force of social cohesion and fragmentation; and the role of religion, ritual and the arts in each culture.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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