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5.00 Credits
Continuation of Chinese 4.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of Chinese 4NH.
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5.00 Credits
Continuation of Chinese 5.
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4.00 Credits
Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in English translation. Various aspects of Greek tragedy discussed: origins, historical development, costumes, staging, performance. Primary emphasis placed on the plays as literature plot, characters, language, etc. Role of tragedy in Greek culture.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in Greece as part of the summer curriculum offered by the Classics Department. Selections from Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Greek lyric are read as poetry related to the Greek land as well as to religion, politics, and temperament. The readings are in translation.
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4.00 Credits
Explores debates regarding the relationship between emotions and rational thought, particularly from the point of view of canonical Classical authors, in order to examine personal decision-making, politics, and behavioral tendencies in ancient Mediterranean culture.
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4.00 Credits
Study of representations of "barbarians" in Greek literature, with special interest in their cultural and historical contexts, and in the construction of Athenian ideology. Readings from Homer, Herodotus, tragedy and comedy, with essays by Said, Bernal, Hall, and others.
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4.00 Credits
Development of history as a genre; such authors as Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy and Tacitus in English translation.
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4.00 Credits
The comic playwrights, such as Aristophanes and Plautus, and satirists, such as Lucian and Juvenal, in English translation.
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4.00 Credits
The tumultuous end of the Roman Republic, from Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the Rubicon (49 BC), had profound importance for the history of the West and produced a fascinating literature of crisis in the writings of Sallust, Cicero, Catullus, and Caesar.
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