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1.00 Credits
Caught between the East and West, the culture of Byzantium inherited the ancient worlds of Greece, Rome, and Jerusalem, nurturing many a modern ideology, conflict, and identity. Byzantium is explored through its history, texts, and art. We examine the foundation and history of Constantinople, Iconoclasm, the Crusades, medieval Christianity and Islam, Byzantine court life, concepts of gender, self, and sexuality.
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This course will analyze women in classical Greek and Roman society and literature. Using gender as a critical tool, we will examine Greek and Roman women in various sources, from Homeric epics and public inscriptions to scathing Roman satire. These sources show how the Greeks and Romans defined normative gender categories and how they used these categories as a vehicle for social and political criticism. We will cover both social history and gender discourse, focusing especially on the body and sexuality as a site for power. The limitations imposed by the source materials, both literary and non-literary, will be a topic of discussion throughout, as well as the relation of these ideas to contemporary constructions of gender.
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Explores the ancient Greco-Roman utopian tradition in its two branches: literary depictions of mythological or fantastic utopian visions, including representations of societies remote in time ("Golden Age") or place (Homer's Phaeacia); and literature that criticizes contemporary society or describes an idealized "possible" society (Plato's Republic; Aristophanes' Ekklesiazusae). Also considers the postclassical utopian (and dystopian) traditions. DVPS LILE WRIT
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1.00 Credits
The historical development of the main themes of ancient Indian religious and philosophical thought. Part I: The rise of monism in tension with polytheism, the efficacy of Vedic words and Vedic rites, and early Brahminic cosmology and psychology. Part II: The rise of the non-Brahminic traditions (Jainas, Ajivikas, and Buddhists) challenging Vedic revelation and everything based upon it (mainly the rites and authority of brahmins). Part III: The ensuing 'conversations' among the completing traditions, conversations that developed new world-views and new methods for effecting human well-being in the cosmos.
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This course focuses on a single historical figure, Alexander the Great, using him as a point of departure for exploring a wide range of problems and approaches that typify the field of Classical Studies. How knowledge of Alexander has been used and abused provides a fascinating case study in the formation and continuous reinterpretation of the western Classical tradition.
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to Indian epic literature with reading and analysis of one or more of India's grand and powerful epics, such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the Cilappadikaram, and others.
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1.00 Credits
This course will introduce, in English translations, the belles lettres of India, primarily of ancient and 'medieval' India, primarily of works originally in Sanskrit. We will read selections of the best poetry, drama, and narrative literature of Indian civilization--K¿lidasa's play ¿akuntal¿, his epic poem The Birth of the Divine Prince, or his poem The Cloud Messenger; and, or, the plays of Bh¿sa, the prose of Dandin's Adventures of the Ten Princes or B¿na's classic novel K¿dambari; or selections from the Great Story (Brhatkath¿) or The Ocean of the Streams of Story (Kath¿sarits¿gara), etc., etc., etc. We may also sample some classical Tamil poetry (see A. K. Ramanujan's The Interior Landscape) or contemporary "classics" Such as Banerjee's Bengali novel Panther Panchali.
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to the classical traditions of philosophy in India. After presenting a general overview of this discourse and its basic Brahminic, Buddhist, and Jain branches, the course will examine selected traditions and themes from both the several schools concerned entirely with gaining ultimate beatitude (the Highest Good) (the schools known as Samkhya, Yoga, Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Jainism, and Vedanta) and the schools that concentrate on issues of logic, metaphysics, and language and hermeneutics (Nyaya, Vai¿e¿ika, and Purva Mimamsa, respectively).
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Reviews major myths along with some lesser known variations, in order to understand how ancient Greeks imagined their relation to the divine world, to nature, and to other human beings. Considers connections between myth and cult or ritual, and also to the psychological, social, historical, and aesthetic aspects of classical myths. Examines adaptations of classical myths in later societies and comparative materials from other cultures.
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1.00 Credits
Examination of the great Indian epic Mahabharata and related mythology to introduce the context for the most ancient speculations of the Rgveda and the subtle teacher-student dialogues about the self contained in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads. We will also examine the more systematic Indian philosophical texts and note their resonance in ancient and modern European conceptions of self.
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