CLST 608 - Ancient Greece and the Modern/Post-Modern World

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University of Pennsylvania

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Rosen. It is commonplace to regard Classical antiquity in some sense as the "foundation" of Western culture, yet few people ever examine more closely how or whether this may be so. Can we in fact speak meaningfully of a cultural continuum from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present Do we see in the ancient Greeks a reflection of ourselves or of an entirely alien culture This course will explore how the Greeks of the "classical" period (5th-4th Centuries B.C.E.) addressed a set of concerns and problems fundamental to most human cultures, and will compare their approaches to these issues to those of modern society. Topics will include political organization, gender relations, family culture, art and society, among others. Sources will be wide-ranging and comparative, including such material as Plato, Thucydides, Euripides, Benjamin Franklin, Freud and Rap Music.

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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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