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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Although many of us feel that we can recognize tragic stories, films, and even individuals, we would probably be hard-pressed to come up with a definition of tragedy itself. In this course, we will be exploring the definitions and uses of Greco-Roman tragedy within western literary and intellectual history. In particular, we will focus on the subject of the individual in tragedy: representations of the rational and irrational mind and the relationship between violence and the tragic body. We will see how the ancient texts formulate these notions and examine the place of tragedy in later theories of the self and civilization. In addition to a number of "classic" tragedies by authors such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, we will be reading works by later (philosopher-) thinkers such as Aristotle, E. R. Dodds, Antonin Artaud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Rosen. What do the ancient Greek comedian Aristophanes, the Roman satirist Juvenal, Howard Stern and Snoop Doggy Dogg have in common Many things, in fact; but they are all fundamentally united by an authorial stance that constantly threatens to offend prevailing social norms, whether it be through obscenity, violence or bigotry. This course will examine our conceptions of art (including literary, visual and musical media) that are deemed by certain communities to transgress the boundaries of taste and convention. It juxtaposes modern notions of artistic transgression, and the criteria used to evaluate such material, with the production of and discourse about transgressive art in classical antiquity. Students will consider, among other things, why communities feel compelled to repudiate some forms of art, while others into "classics".
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3.00 Credits
Staff. We will take into account the development of the city of Athens from the Mycenaean period to Late Antiquity but will concentrate on the era when the city was at its height, from the sixth to fourth centuries B.C. We will examine the great public places--notably, the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis and the political and commercial core of the Agora-and will explore as well the neighborhoods with their private houses, small shrines, fountain houses and craft workshops. We will also turn to the port of Peiraeus, which was so essential to Athens' trade and naval power and which in its layout and in the character of its population contrasted sharply with Athens itself.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Romano. The art, archaeology and history of athletics in ancient Greece. Among the topics to be included are: famous Greek athletetes, female athletes, the ancient Olympic Games and other athletic festivals, ancient athletic facilities and equipment, the excavation of ancient athletic sites and practical athletics.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This advanced seminar will examine the classical backgrounds to English poetry, in particular the Biblical and Greco- Roman antecedents to Renaissance lyric verse and verse drama (such as, preeminently, Shakespeare). Different versions of this course will have different emphases on Biblical or Hellenist backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
O'Donnell. Senior Seminar. This seminar will examine the workings and interplay of spoken and written language in Roman and late antiquity (roughly B.C. 100 to 600 A.D.). Attention will be given to the way language was used by powerful elites to maintain and expand their position in society, but also to the ways the oral and written word were used by marginalized communities to defend and enhance their social existence. Each week's seminar will concentrate on one or two specific ancient artifacts, interpreted with the help of a wide range of recommended background reading. A particular feature of the course will be attention to the concrete ways in which the written word evolved: inscriptions and manuscripts, texts for public display and consumption and texts for private delectation and rumination. Each student will write a single substantial paper in two drafts. Background in classics, languages, or Cultural Studies will be helpful but not necessary.
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3.00 Credits
Murnaghan. As an epic account of wandering, survival, and homecoming, Homer's Odyssey has been a constant source of themes and images with which to define and redefine the nature of heroism, the sources of identity, and the challenge of finding a place in the world. This course will begin with a close reading of the Odyssey in translation, with particular attention to Odysseus as a post-Trojan War hero; to the roles of women, especially Odysseus' faithful and brilliant wife Penelope; and to the uses of poetry and story-telling in creating individual and cultural identities. We will then consider how later authors have drawn on these perspectives to construct their own visions, reading works, or parts of works, by such authors as Virgil, Dante, Tennyson, Joyce, Derek Walcott, and Louise Gluck.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is an introduction to the use of computers in the humanities. The focus will be upon consideration of issues and techniques involved in developing quality resources for use in the student's field of study. A major project will be the creation of a web site related to the student's major. The class will utilize a combination of lectures, discussion, presentations and practical lab experience. Techniques will include the basics of HTML (for the development humanities web pages), graphics, and a brief introduction to simple programming concepts. The course will also consider methodological issues such as the movement from text to multimedia, ethical/legal problems, and the phenomenon of "cyberculture."
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3.00 Credits
Mulhern. What actually was it that the Greeks were thinking of when they used the word politeia-- an expression that we often translate by "constitution" What do their thoughts suggest about prospects for constitutionmaking today This course builds on contemporary scholarship to reconstruct what we may call the constitutional tradition as it develops in the main ancient texts, which are read in English translations. The ancient texts are taken from Herodotus, Xenophon, the Pseudo-Xenophon, Thucydides, Plato, the author of the Aristotelian Athenian Constitution, Aristotle himself, Polybius, Cicero, Augustine, and the codifiers of Roman law. The course traces this tradition through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the great thinkers of the Seventeenth Century, following linguistic and other clues that carry one up to Madison and put the product of the U.S. Constitutional Convention in a somewhat new light; and it continues through Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century constitutionmaking into today's consitutionmaking efforts in Eastern Europe. The course is conducted interactively as a group tutorial. The professor offers a prelecture to the class each week on the text that they will read next to help them understand its historical, literary, and political context. In the next class, the students read short papers on the text, and these papers are discussed by other students and by the professor. The professor then provides a summary lecture on the text just completed and a prelecture on the reading set for the next class. At the end, the students have reconstructed the constitutional tradition for themselves from the sources.
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