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3.00 Credits
What part did religious practices play in the lives of the Greeks? Why did they have so many gods? What should we expect when we die? This course will examine the breadth of religious practice and thought in ancient Greece, including: the role of mythology, animal sacrifice, festivals, mystery cults, sanctuaries, chthonic religion, and the development of the notion of impiety. The course will also pay particular attention to the devloping interest in the afterlife. We will conclude with discussion of the introduction of new Gods into the Greek religious systems, and the rise of Christianity. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
"Men of Syracuse, accept laws that you think will not arouse your desire and turn your thoughts toward money-making and wealth...your laws must give the highest honor to the excellence of the soul." (Plato, Letter VIII) Before his final retirement to the Academy of Athens Plato ventured three times into Sicily and it was among the nobles of Syracuse that Plato thought to see his Philosopher King made manifest. Beginning with an analysis of Socrates' moral philosophy and way of life the class moves to consider Plato's developing philosophy. The class will examine Plato's metaphysics, epistemology and psychology through readings of complete texts and selected passages. The course aims to provide an interconnected account of Plato's main themes and arguments and to examine the social and political implications of Plato's thought. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Greek history from the Mycenaean period to the end of the Classical, which examines the major events and achievements of the Greek world within a political, social and economic framework. The course will cover the fall of the Mycenaean world and the subsequent development of the city-state(the polis) with its various forms of governing systems, including aristocracy, oligarchy, tyranny and democracy. Using classical texts by historians (primarily Herodotus and Thucydides), we will examine the phenomenon of colonization, the Persian Wars, the Athenian Empire, the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedon and regional federations, and finish with the life and death of Alexander the Great. As the Greek cities of Sicily were some of the richest and most successful parts of the Greek world, we will use Sicilian cities, such as Syracuse itself, to examine these themes in the cobtexts of our own surroundings. AUC Designation: Cl
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the artistic, architectural and archaeological monuments of ancient Italy and its expansive Roman Empire from c. 900 BCE to 330 CE.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Greek Art and Archaeology from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. It is taught by lectures/seminars and fieldtrips and is based on the study of the material remains of the principal periods of Greek history.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of emdical knowledge in anicent Greece and Rome. After a survey of the earliest notions of health and disease as god-sent, we move to the attempt to distinguish medicine from religion, and indeed from magic. The course covers the disucssion of the doctrines of individual figures and schools; Sicily, notably, originated some of the greatest figures in the early history of Greek medicine and the 'Sicilian' medical school (whihc was the greastest rival to the Hippocratic school of KOS) was highly influential. The course concludes with some discussions of the medical schools in Alexandria, where for a brief period anatomists had the opportunity (which did not arise again till the 15th century) to practice not only human dissection but also vivisection and contrast scientific advances with ethical considerations. AUC Designation: Ss
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3.00 Credits
This course uses close reading and analysis of selected works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to investigate the intricate ethical, religious and political questions that lie at the heart of 5th century Greek (or rather, Athenian) tragedy and, by extension, Greek society as a whole. Starting with Aeschylus' Oresteia, the sole surviving Greek trilogy, we will move chronologically trhough some of the most exemplary work of Sophocles and Euripides, examining such subjects as changing trends in staging and performance strategies, the role of women, attitudes to war and peace, perceptions of the gods, views on autocracy and democracy, and above all, problems with interpretation. AUC Designation: Cl
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4.00 Credits
As Sicily has been a central crossroads of human activity for thousands o fyears, it offers a major perspective on all the problems and challenges of accommodating humans and nature in the much trampled Mediterranean basin. Tracking these issues requires first an understanding of the basics of Mediterranean ecology. This course explores the ecology of the central Mediterranean, primarily through lectures and studies in the field, examining the ecosystems and habitat zones of eastern Sicily as representative biomes of the Mediterranean, coming to know the major flora and fauna groups of the Mediterranean region. AUC Designation: Np
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4.00 Credits
Introduces basic concepts of modern Volcanology, plate tectonics and geodynamics, and presents Italian volcanism with particular emphasis on the worldwide famous Vasuvius and Etna, which have given mush of the inspiration necessary for the birth and evolution of the young science of Volcanology. The course furthermore focuses on the global implications of geological processes - as exemplified by volcanism - such as volcanic hazards, the benefits to volcanism, and present-day methods and approaches in Volcanology.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Sicily from the end of the Byzantine Empire to the Allies landing in 1943. Classes deal in turn with each of the major cultures that have developed in or imposed themselves on Sicily, and thus provide an introduction to many of the most important civilizations of the Northern Africa, Central and Western Europe (e.g. Arabs, the Normans, The Swabians) via a single geographically defined focus. This approach enables an appreciation to be made of the fundamental similarities and differencesbetween these cultures, and the continuities and changes in methods of control and exploitation of the land and its resources that they each employed. Close reading of primary and secondary sources will be combined with historical site visits to provide a complete overview of the available evidence.
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