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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the cultural attitude towards sexuality and gender in the Greek and Roman world through the study of ancient philosophical, historical and literary sources. Topics will include definitions of masculinity and its opposite, social gender expectations, and representations of women in texts by and for men. Equal emphasis will be placed on close readings of primary sources and discussion of modern methodologies for the analysis of ancient societies.
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This course examines the links between constructions of Europe and the place of national cultures within the modern period. We will pay special attention to the peculiar relationship of Greece (ancient and modern) to Europe, since Greece exists on the edge of Europe as we think we know it. We will look at historical case studies, scholarly debates, and literary texts to get a handle on the question of how the tension between East and West plays out when located on that border.
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In this class, students learn the fundamentals of Sanskrit grammar and phonology. Devanagari script is used throughout. The class prepares students for higher grammar studies and beginning readings in the classics of Sanskrit literature (offered in the follow-up course in the spring, CLA 476).
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A survey of major literary forms and works from the Archaic to the Greco-Roman period.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course we shall read and discuss in detail some extant Greek philosophical letters, read against the general background of the tradition of letter writing in antiquity. One problem that will concern us in particular is the phenomenon of the spurious letter. What is a spurious letter? On what grounds have scholars distinguished spurious from supposedly genuine letters? What may have been the purpose of 'forging' and publishing a letter of, e.g., a famous philosopher? The main focus of the course will be on the extant letters attributed to Aristotle, as well as some of the letters attributed to Plato and Epicurus.
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Greek inscriptions provide especially valuable information on the political life, institutions and social structures of Greek society. The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the use of epigraphic documents in historical research. The sessions will be devoted to the analysis of particular aspects of Greek society (e. g. relationships between city and country, king and city, Greeks and non-Greeks) on the basis of inscriptions from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
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A seminar that introduces graduate students to current methods and debates in Roman history and historiography. Provides a chronological overview of the history of Rome and her expanding empire from early times (8th century BC) to the end of the Severan era (AD 235), accompanied by the study of a wide variety of ancient sources, including texts, inscriptions, coins, material culture, art, and archaeology, and the methods commonly used by modern historians to analyze them. Students acquire the basic tools needed to do research in Roman history.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar explores the role of animals in the development of ancient biology, medicine, and natural history. Among the central issues explored are the role of personal observation, animal experimentation, systematic dissection and vivisection of animals, and the relation between 'folk biology' and the development of a 'scientific' biology. The relation between animal sacrifice and a rule-based medical techne that regulates human consumption of animal products is also examined. The seminar also takes up different traditions of classifying animals and the diverse literary forms used to 'write the animal'.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Object of the course will be the epigram of Martial in the context of the Roman tradition of Satire. Topics of discussion will include Martial's compositional strategies, dialogue with contemporary writers in neighboring genres, and patterns of allusion to poetic models.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The seminar will address the literary, philosophical, and political dimensions of Seneca's "Moral Epistles", which were written near the end of his life after his withdrawal from Nero's court.
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