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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Classical Greek culture, paying special attention to Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. It is intended to lay a foundation for understanding how Hellenic thought and art influenced the development of all subsequent Western culture. All texts will be read in English translation.
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3.00 Credits
A broad introduction (in English translation) to the literature of the Roman Republic and Empire. The Greek heritage behind Latin literature will be highlighted. Readings will be chosen from authors such as Catullus, Cicero, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Juvenal, Tacitus, and Suetonius, and from genres such as epic and lyric poetry, oratory, history and satire.
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3.00 Credits
The course treats the rise and development of the Western epic tradition from Homer, Lucretius, and Virgil in the classical world, through Dante in the Middle Ages, Milton in the Renaissance, and Wordsworth and Eliot in modernity.
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3.00 Credits
How do we represent the ancient Greeks and Romans in modern media? What happens to the books the ancients wrote when these are turned into modern films, TV shows or video games?
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3.00 Credits
By pondering the role of vampires and other such monsters, in folklore, fiction, and film, this course attempts to ponder such fundamental questions as What does it mean to be human? and What are the implications of death? The tradition will be traced from its earliest antecedents in the ancient world to its latest manifestation in current fiction and screen media.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in English of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
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3.00 Credits
The comic plays of the ancient Greeks and Romans in English translation. The focus is close reading and analysis of plays by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence, with a view to their socio-political, cultural, and historical milieu. The final weeks are devoted to reception of these works by Shakespeare and Moliere.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the religious thought and practice of the ancient Greek-speaking world from the Bronze Age to the first century CE. Major topics include ritual, sacrifice, prayer, chthonic and sky deities, oracles, and mystery-cults. Students will learn to interpret primary source material, such as the epic poems of the archaic period, the so-called Homeric Hymns, and objects of material culture.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Content to be determined by faculty member and registering student(s).
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