MCAS CS AR 355 - Uses & Abuses of Antiquity

Institution:

Arcadia University

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Description:

This course examines the ways in which the Classical past, Greek & Roman, has been appropriated, used or abused, in subsequent ages. We concentrate on the following areas: art & architecture; theatre & drama; cinema; literature; politics & nationalism. The course examines the reuse of clissical models in western art and artitecture (from the Renaissance to 21st century); theater and literature (examining the influences of epic, tragedy and comedy, their role as the foundational texts of western Literature and their reproduction in the modent age); cinema (considering both siltent Italian and Hollywood epics, from films such as Ben Hur and Quo Vadis to the recent productions Gladiator and Alexander); and, more problematically sometimes, poltics. In this last topic we look at the examples of the birth of Modern Greece (and the selection of a certain type of past) and the Italian Fascist period (with the creation of a new Roman political propaganda). Syracuse provides an excellent locations for this class, with the monumental classical Greek Theater-transformed under the Romans, used as source of building materials under the spanish and reconstitued by the inauguration of the International Festival of Anicent Drama (which continues to this day) at the beginning of the 20th century. AUC Designation: Cl

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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