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1.00 Credits
A study of Greek and Roman literature as an expression of individual and social ideals, and as a continuing source of inspiration in the Western cultural tradition. The course will proceed from Homer to Vergil with particular emphasis on the Age of Pericles in Athens and the Age of Augustus at Rome. Readings, discussion, slides and film. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course surveys ancient sporting events, from the Greek Olympic games to the Roman gladiatoral contests, offering an in-depth examination of various aspects of athletics together with a comparison of ancient and modern sports activities and athletic values. The modern world has idealized ancient Greek athletics and claims to use the ancient Greek Olympics as a model, while Roman athletics is associated today with the violence and cruelty of the amphitheater and the persecution of Christian martyrs. In this course we will compare these stereotypes and models to the ancient reality. What were ancient athletics really like What were the actual rules and events What values drove ancient athletes to succeed Many types of evidence will be discussed, including readings in translation from ancient Greek and Latin texts, painting, sculpture, and archaeological remains. 1.00 units, Lecture
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The city was the foundation of the classical world. This course examines the city from its beginnings to the collapse of the Mediterranean empires in the seventh century A.D. It includes Athens and Rome, but other Greek and Roman cities are covered, as are cities of other cultures: Egypt, Carthage, and the various Persian kingdoms. Topics include urban life, city government and democratic methods, women, and the city-country relationship. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Do current Western attitudes toward sex and sexuality have a history How and why did ancient Greek society glorify and institutionalize homosexuality and consider it superior to heterosexuality What were the origins and evolution of Greek and Roman sexual attitudes and practices, and in what ways did Roman sexuality differ from Greek This course will examine ancient Greek and Roman sexual values and practices in order to illuminate contemporary attitudes toward sex and the body. Readings will include selections from Homer, Sappho, Plato, Juvenal, Martial, Petronius, Catullus, and other ancient writers, as well as modern critical analyses. This course is intended for and open to all students. There is no prerequisite and no limit on enrollment. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Jewish Diaspora in the Greco-Roman world from Alexander the Great to the early Roman Empire. Focusing on both Jewish and pagan sources, we will assess and contextualize literary and archaeological evidence relating to the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel. Particular atttention will be directed toward the Jewish Diaspora in Rome. Readings will include selections from Josephus, Philo, Strabo, Cicero, Tacitus, Juvenal, and other ancient writers, as well as Jewish papyri and funeral inscriptions, all in translation. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course offers a history of banqueting in the ancient Mediterranean world, from communal feasts at religious festivals to the private banquets of the Greek symposium, and the Roman convivium. Using primary ancient sources (literary texts, artistic representations, and archaeological finds), we will examine the roles of dining and drinking in ancient societies and social ideologies. What, for instance, was the significance of food and drink offerings in tombs and images of banqueting in funerary art Where did the custom of reclining to dine originate, and what social implications did it carry And, of course, what kind of food and drink was consumed at these banquets 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course explores the intersection of power and public display-how power reinforces and legitimizes itself through display and representation, and how varieties of representation, literary and visual, respond to power by commenting on, supporting, and challenging authority. Focusing on the early Roman Empire in the age of Nero, we will examine the public spectacles of the Romans-triumphs, circuses and gladiatorial games, tragedies and other public performances-and the ways in which the city of Rome itself served as a stage for the display of power, all of which helped to define the role of the emperor and his relationship with his subjects. The age of Nero was one of remarkable literary and artistic production strikingly preoccupied with examining the nature of power in the context of the developing imperial system and society. Lucan's epic poem, "The Civil War," describes the grasping for power and loss of freedom in the rise of Nero's ancestor Julius Caesar. Through the lens of Stoic philosophy, Seneca's tragedies-the only surviving examples of Roman tragedy and the precursors of later Western tragedies-use mythology to understand figures of authority and the consequences of power misused. In turn, the satirists Persius and Petronius make fun of the current society and its preoccupation with power, money, and status. The interconnection between performance and politics finds its apogee in the figure of Nero himself, the actor-emperor who took to the stage and imagined himself to be a great artist in his own 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Who are we Where are we going Where have we come from These questions have been central to literature in all cultures and all time periods. Epic tales of travel and adventure are a rich field in which to explore what it means to be human, to be an individual and a member of a community. Heroes leave home and find it again, or make it anew, and in the process they find and remake themselves. They encounter monsters and temptresses, utopias and dystopias, all of which test and refute and reshape their notions of what is natural and conventional. We will explore these and other issues through in-depth readings of five works from five vastly different cultures and eras: the Near Eastern epic of Gilgamesh, the early greek epic of the Odyssey, by Homer; the Roman comic tale of a man turned into an ass in The Golden Ass of Apuleius; the medieval romance of Ywain: The Knight of the Lion, by Chretien de Troyes; and the early modern story of Candide, by Voltaire. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The achievements of Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Thucydides, and other Greek writers are so remarkable that they have profoundly influenced later literature, thought, art, and performance through to the present day. This course provides a survey of great works of Greek literature and an exploration of the cultural, political, and historical contexts in which it developed. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will examine ancient accounts of the individual in the context of both the city and the cosmos. We shall consider the writings of Hesiod, Aeschylus, and Plato insofar as they take up the themes of fate, freedom and necessity, especially as they affect political relations between the gods and mortals, men and women, parents and children. Enrollment limited. 1.00 units, Lecture
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