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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of Demotic Greek. It will introduce the fundamentals of grammar and will focus on reading ability, oral comprehension, and oral expression. Class instruction is supplemented by required laboratory work.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of CL 060 which is offered in the fall semester.
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1.00 Credits
The goal of this course is to build solid reading skills in the Latin language by providing an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the basics of Latin grammar and syntax. The course meets for twelve weeks and is divided into two sessions. The first session will begin to guide students through the fundamentals of the language using Wheelock' Latin. The second session will complete Wheelock's Latin and proceed to readings in the original from Caesar, Cicero, Catullus and others.
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3.00 Credits
The Greeks' love of theater did not end with the classical age. The course presents a survey of highlights of Modern Greek drama centering mainly on the twentieth century, with plays such as, Tragedy-Comedy (N. Kazantzakis), The Courtyard of Miracles (I. Kambanellis), The City (L. Anagnostaki), The Wedding Band (D. Kehaides), and The Match (G. Maniotes). The discontinuity from the ancient Greek theater may be discussed and a reading performance may be planned. The course is offered entirely in English, but provision may be made for reading the plays in Greek.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the history of Greece from the Bronze Age in the second millennium BCE to the preeminence of Alexander of Macedon in the 4th century. The course will focus on such broad topics as the development of Greek social and political instituions, notions of justice, freedom, and Greek identity, relations among Greek city-states and with foreign nations, imperialism, the golden age of Greek literature, and the rise of Macedonian monarchy. Emphasis will be on the study of the ancient sources: literary, historiographic, archaeological and epigraphic.
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3.00 Credits
Homer's Iliad describes a "Trojan War." Until Schliemann's excavations of a fortified site in Turkey suggested a real Troy and further work in Greece revealed a brillant Bronze Age civilization, most thought Homer's story pure fiction. This class investigates archaeological sites such as Troy and Mycenae, Bronze Age shipwrecks, a Late Bronze Age "Pompeii," and the artistic evidence for objects and practices described by Homer in order to separate historical truth from elements either invented by the poet or adopted from his own time and reinvented by Hollywood.
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3.00 Credits
This course has three basic aims: to explore the process of reading literary texts closely, to explore the tradition of heroic or "epic" narrative, and to consider the value of literature in our lives both individually and socially. What is it good for? Readings include selections from the poems of Homer and Virgil, as well as from Milton's Paradise Lost and Pope's mock-heroic Rape of the Lock. We will also read selections from Plato's hostile criticism of literature, and from authors who introduce unheroic, even anti-heroic values into an epic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the world of Greek and Roman mythology focusing on what these civilizations' traditional stories tell us about the culture, politics, and psychology of their creators. Mythic texts such as Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, and Virgil's Aeneid will be read using the analytical tools created by ancient and modern theorists of myth (e.g., Euhemerus, Metrodorus, Malinowski, Freud, and Levi-Strauss). By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with many of the "Great Books" of the Western Canon and will also be able to apply a number of important and useful techniques of literary analysis.
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3.00 Credits
In this class we will explore the theory and practice of religion in tne ancient Roman world, as reflected in ancient literary texts, as well as in epigraphic and archaeological evidence. Themes will include the nature of Roman worship, from state cult to magic and mysteries, the interplay between religion and politics, and the development of Christianity in its pagan context.
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3.00 Credits
A political and cultural history of Athens during the creation and height of its democracy (circa 480-400 B.C.E.). The course will consider the Persian Wars and their effect on political and constitutional developments in Athens, the workings of the Athenian Democracy under Pericles and the eventual collapse following the Peloponnesian War. Readings in translation include Thucydides, Plutarch, Aristotle, Xenophon, Plato, and the Greek playwrights (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes). Emphasis will be on integrating historical, literary and archaeological evidence to provide as complete a picture as possible of this dynamic period of ancient history.
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