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Course Criteria
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Reading the major epics of antiquity in translation (Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid) and the European Middle Ages (Beowulf, Song of Roland, Dante's Inferno), emphasizing the changing definition and concept of the hero. Instructor: Gonzalez, Janan, or staff
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Reading in translation selected tragedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca) and comedies (Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence) with emphasis on political, social, and cultural developments, contemporary theatrical practice, and influence on later European drama. Instructor: Burian or staff
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Close study of one or more Greek personalities who captured contemporary and lasting fame (e.g., Socrates, Pericles, Alexander the Great). Explores primary sources of information for him/her, and the creation of history and biography. Instructor: Sosin or Staff
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Close study of one or more Roman personalities who captured contemporary and lasting fame (e.g., Julius Caesar, Agrippina the Younger, Constantine the Great), the course explores the primary sources of information for him/her, and the creation of history and biography. Instructor: Boatwright or Staff
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Topics in Greek and Roman religion from the Bronze Age through the rise of Christianity, based on literary, documentary, and archaeological sources. Coverage within the chronological boundaries via survey, case-studies, or a combination of both. Topics might include the relationship of myth and ritual, hero cult, mysteries, festivals, interface between philosophy and religion, "public" and "private" religion, religious "imports" and exoticism, architecture and landscape of religion. Instructor: Staff
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Survey of principal topics in Aristotelian philosophy. Areas of study include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy. Instructor: Ferejohn
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Daily life in Greek and Roman antiquity through written sources and material culture. Topics may include gender, sexuality, and family; slavery, class and order in Greek and Roman society; diet and dining; population and popular culture; discourse on the emotions and private letters. Instructor: Staff
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Dante's Commedia and the texts that place it in a context: the history of thirteenth-century Florence and Dante's life; his other major works (the Vita Nuova and De Monarchia); the pagan poets whom Dante incorporated into his Commedia (Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius) and the Christian theory of biblical criticism that gave St. Augustine his perspective on pagan poets. Instructor: Clay
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The culture of the ancient Greeks from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great: art, literature, history, philosophy, and religion. Not open to students who have had, or are taking, Classical Studies 53/153. Instructor: Staff
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Introduction to the many disciplines of archaeology, using a survey of cultures and civilizations to explain archaeological techniques, methods, theory, results, and ethics. Instructor: Antonaccio
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