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4.00 Credits
The second of a two-course sequence examines the central themes associated with the construction of western culture in its global context. Focusing on cultural comparison and contrast, students will explore significant texts, ideas, issues, and events in their historical context from a humanistic perspective.
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5.00 Credits
A study of Socrates as both historical and literary figure, with special attention to his political and cultural context, and to our three chief sources on him and his philosophical activities: Aristophanes, Plato, and Xenophon.
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5.00 Credits
A complete tragic drama read in the original Greek. Attention to characterization, dramatic structure, and poetry, and to Euripides place in the history of tragedy. Metrical reading of dialogue.
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5.00 Credits
Readings selected from the Koine Greek text of the New Testament with a concentration on the Gospel of St. Luke, including parallel selections from the epistles and other gospels. Close reading of the text with a view to theological implications of the vocabulary. Introduction to primary research tools.
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5.00 Credits
"Spring 2011 -- Jews Under Empire Empire was a defining feature of the ancient Mediterranean. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Greek kings and the Roman elite exercised influence over large areas of the Mediterranean and its peoples. The experience of and response to such empires by their foreign subjects are as challenging to elucidate as fascinating to imagine. Yet in one case the subject people have left behind a substantial literature documenting their experience: the Jews. In this course, we will explore the consequences of empire for the Jews and the strategies they employed to explain and live under empire. In the process, we will focus often on religion, but discuss also other areas of culture, as well as politics, society, economy, and the military. Specific topics to be covered will include: the Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt, the Maccabean Revolt, the Hasmonean dynasty, Herod the Great, the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE, and the First Jewish Revolt."
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5.00 Credits
This course will explore the classical roots of modern comedy in order to address the questions of why we find certain things funny and why we laugh at all. Readings will focus on Greek and Roman comedic plays, but will also include other forms of ancient humor and writings by ancient and modern humor theorists and scientists. We will also watch popular movies and other modern analogs of ancient comedy to explore the relationship between ancient and modern humor. As a final project, students will demonstrate their understanding of the material through collaborating over the course of the term to write, costume, and perform original plays in imitation of the ancient playwrights
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3.00 Credits
Supervised completion of the final draft, public oral presentation, and defense of the senior thesis. Prerequisites: CLAS 197A; for senior Classics majors only; advance permission of instructor and department chair required.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Individually designed programs of reading or research, in Latin, Greek, or classics (i.e., literature in translation or culture). Available to advanced students. Written permission of the instructor and department chair required in advance of registration. (5 units)
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of Latin I.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of Greek I.
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