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4.00 Credits
The period from the beginnings of Greek religion until the spread of Christianity spans over 2,000 Department of Classics years and many approaches to religious and moral issues. This course traces developments such as the Olympian gods of Homer and Hesiod; hero worship; public and private religion; views of death, the soul, and afterlife; Dionysus; Epicureanism; and Stoicism. It deals with changes in Greek religion during the Roman republic and early empire and the success of Christians in converting pagans in spite of official persecution.
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Teaches second-year students to read Latin prose through comprehensive grammar review; emphasis on the proper techniques for reading (correct phrase division, the identification of clauses, and reading in order); and practicing reading at sight. Authors may include Caesar, Cicero, Cornelius Nepos, Livy, Petronius, or Pliny, at the instructor's discretion.
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4.00 Credits
Writings of the greatest Roman poet, focusing on his most celebrated poem, the Aeneid. Students learn to read Latin metrically to reflect the necessary sound for full appreciation of the writing. Readings in political and literary history illustrate the setting in the Augustan Age in which the Aeneid was written and enjoyed, the relationship of the poem to the other classical epics, and its influence on the poetry of later times.
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Examines the theory and practice of martyrdom in the West. Begins with a close study of the development of the martyrological discourse in classical, early Christian, early Jewish, and Muslim literature and culture. Also traces how the concept of martyrdom is deployed in modern culture in various phenomena, such as the "Columbine martyrs," "martyrdom operations" ("suicide bombers"), political martyrdom, and modern notions of holy war.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the complex but highly beautiful language of ancient Greece-the language of Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Plato. Students learn the essentials of ancient Greek vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. Five hours of instruction weekly, with both oral and written drills and an emphasis on the ability to read Greek rather than merely translate it.
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4.00 Credits
The origins of nonmythical speculation among the Greeks and the main patterns of philosophical thought, from Thales and other early speculators about the physical nature of the world through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Neoplatonists.
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4.00 Credits
Extensive readings in Vergil's Aeneid and the other epics of Rome, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. Consideration is given to the growth and development of Roman epic, its Greek antecedents, and its relationship to the Romans' construction of their past. Study of the development of the Latin hexameter is also included.
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4.00 Credits
Offering extensive readings from the prose works of Cicero, this course provides readings in Latin of a selection from Cicero's speeches, letters, oratorical works, and philosophical works. Cicero's place in the development of Latin literature is also considered, as is the social and political world of the late Republic that he inhabited.
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4.00 Credits
Provides extensive readings from the works of Rome's Department of Classics greatest lyric and elegiac poets, including Catullus, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The various lyric meters adapted by the Romans are considered, as is the development of the Latin love elegy.
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4.00 Credits
A selection of plays from those of Plautus and Terence. The development of Roman comedy, its relationship to Greek New Comedy, and its social and cultural place in Roman life are also discussed. Some facility in Plautine and Terentian meter is expected.
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