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3.00 Credits
Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course examines the literature, culture, history, politics, and daily life of the ancient Romans from the legendary beginning of the city in 753 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. Readings will include Latin literature in translation and secondary texts which provide archaeological evidence and the historical context.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course examines the status of women in classical antiquity from the Bronze Age through the late Roman Empire. Readings include selections from a wide variety of ancient documents and contemporary scholarship. Archaeological and artistic evidence will also be considered.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course is a survey of Greek and Roman comedy including works by Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, and Plautus. The course will consider the significant social and political issues as well as the plays' appeal, significance, and legacy for us today.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course examines the triumph of Christianity over paganism in the Roman Empire. Focusing on the debate and culture clash between the two in the fourth century, students will discuss and write on important controversies of the age and their relation to our own times.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course examines the rise and decline of the Roman Republic from the founding of the city (c. 800 B.C.) to the assassination of Julius Caesar (44 B.C.). The course explores political, economic, military, religious, and societal topics.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course explores all the major aspects of late Roman civilization, roughly from 300 - 700 A.D. Study will cover political, economic, military, social, and religious developments with focus on the effects of the Germanic and Islamic invasions. Students will examine a wide variety of textual and physical evidence.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course will examine the rise and the first decline of the Roman empire from the establishment of the autocracy by Octavian Augustus (30 B.C. - 14 A.D.) to the reordering of the Roman empire by Diocletian (284 - 305 A.D.). It will explore political, social, military, economic, cultural, and religious topics.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course will survey the medieval Roman empire, also known as the Byzantine empire, from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. The course will examine political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural features of the Byzantine world.
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern This course traces the development of the novel in the earliest examples from Greek and Roman antiquity. These works detail the adventures of young men and women determined to preserve their integrity while searching for their true identities. Readings include Longus' Daphne and Chloe, Petronius' Satyricon, and Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story
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Common Curriculum: Humanities/Arts Pre-modern By their very nature, ancient mystery cults were secretive and their rituals known only to the initiates. This course examines, in translation, a wide variety of ancient sources to see what can be learned about cults ranging from Demeter to Isis to early Christianity.
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