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3.00 Credits
W. Stull An introduction to the literature and culture of the Augustan Age, that period of Roman history in which the empire was established and many of its best-known artists flourished. Readings include selections from and works by the poets Lucretius, Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, and Lucan, by the historians Livy and Tacitus, and by the "novelist" Petronius.
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3.00 Credits
N. Rood This course explores the significations of one culture's changing fantasies of monsters - those from archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greece - by looking at them in conjunction with some modern monsters. The course aims at comprehending the ancient Greek nexus of monster and artist - both figures with a marked physical or personality flaw, outsiders to heroic society. Readings include selections from Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, and Theocritus. These classical texts are complemented by readings from contemporary poets, as well as viewings of several classic horror film
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman This course introduces students to the myths of both the Greek and the Roman world. Students not only acquire a thorough knowledge of the major myths surrounding both gods and heroes but also gain an appreciation of the variety of approaches to understanding and interpreting them. Readings are drawn from ancient texts and from modern critical works.
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman, R. Garland This course covers the period from the Bronze Age to and including the Hellenistic era. The following topics are considered: the phenomenon of anthropomorphism; the connection between mythology and ritual; the status of the dead; the function of the sanctuary; the role of the priest and the seer; hero-worship; evidence for human sacrifice; ecstasy, madness, and possession; the place of religion within the Greek city-state; prayers, curses, and inherited guilt; festivals and spectacles; pollution-belief; Orphism; the rise of mystery religions; and the relationship between Olympian and chthonian religion.
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman This course considers concepts of sexuality and gender in the Graeco-Roman world. It explores the portrayal of gender in classical mythology and examines the legal, economic, social, and religious position of women and men as reflected in historical documents and the archaeological record. Special attention is given to comparing the mythological images with the realities of people's lives in Greek and Roman society.
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman This course surveys the pre-Hellenic, archaic, classical, and Hellenistic art and architecture of Greece with a special emphasis on the political, social, and religious contexts in which art was produced and how it reflects the ideas and concerns of the ancient Greeks, both individually and collectively.
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman This course is an introduction to Minoan, Mycenaean, and Greek civilizations and includes a survey of major sites and monuments. Attention is given to the ways arguments are developed from the archaeological record.
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3.00 Credits
R. Ammerman This course is an introduction to the archaeology of the Italian peninsula from earliest prehistoric to late imperial times. It surveys the major sites and monuments of native Italic cultures, Greek and Phoenician colonization, Etruscan civilization, Rome, and Pompeii. Attention is given to the ways in which arguments are developed from the archaeological record.
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3.00 Credits
R. Garland The history of ancient Greece from the Dark Ages to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Through readings of Herodotus and Thucydides, emphasis is placed on political and social developments at Athens and Sparta, the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and the events that led to the rise of Alexander's empire.
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3.00 Credits
R. Garland The history of ancient Rome from its foundation through to the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Emphasis is placed on political, constitutional, and social developments.
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