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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students will travel to Italy at the end of the spring term (May 13-25) to examine the sites and museum collections of ancient Rome, including Pompeii, Herculaneum, Rome and Tarquinia. See web page for more details.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course begins its study of Greek civilization with the astonishing cultures of Bronze Age Greece and continues with an examination of the defining moments of classics Greek and Hellenistic civilization. We examine major historical periods, authors, genres, and artistic works to understand their impacts on Greek civilization and their continuing legacy in the modern world. Offered every other year in rotation. Prerequisites: None.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students will travel to Greece at the end of the spring term to examine the sites and museum collections of ancient and Byzantine Greece. See web page for more details.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Western art and literature have their roots in Greek and Roman stories about heroes and monsters, gods and titans, awe- inspiring deeds and magical transformations. Today we all to blithely refer to these stories as "myths." But what exactly is myth? Where does myth come from? What is the relationship between myth and history? Myth and religion? Myth and philosophy? What purposes does myth serve in a society, and how does it serve those purposes? These will be the core questions we will ask as we study Classical myth in its cultural contexts. We will consider how myth shapes the works of Classical poets, artists, dramatists, philosophers, and historians, and how those works, in turn, shaped Classical myth. Cross-listed with RLST 3000-01 and SOAN 4750-04. Prerequisites: None.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
What does it mean to hold a tragic worldview? Students read the main surviving works of three great tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and close with two critical works, Aristotle's Poetics and Aristophanes? ?comedy about tragedy, The Frogs. Performances of Greek tragedy and an examina- tion of ritual drama in contemporary Japan, China, India, and Bali broaden our perspective of what drama can achieve for its authors and its audience. Offered in rotation.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The class begins with the oldest surviving epic, the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh, then compares and contrasts the three great classical epics, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. Additional epic literature from India, Africa, and China helps focus the definition of the all-encompassing genre. Offered in rotation.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on the changing vision of the world and human experience in ancient Greek and Roman art and the forms and techniques that artists created to represent that vision. We examine such shifts in perspective as classical to Hellenistic, small city-state societies to cosmo- politan civilizations, and idealism to realism. We include a field trip to the Museum of Classical Archaeology at the University of Mississippi. Offered in rotation.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course examines what we can learn of the ambiguous status and complex roles particular to women from ancient art and literature situated within their relevant historical contexts. Offered in rotation.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of the impact of classical philosophy upon the development of a largely Christian European culture. (This course is the same as Philosophy 3010.) Offered in rotation.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of the political and cultural developments from the origins of urban life to the dissolution of the Roman Empire. (This course is the same as History 3510.) Offered in rotation.
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