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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
Introduction to ancient Greek language and philosophy in the context of Greek culture. Pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle in relation to Homer, dramatists, emergence of a democratic Athens, and etymological and grammatical structures of the Greek language. Investigation of Greek concepts and language extends into modern philosophy, revealing how they both influence and are transformed by such thinkers such as Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. (With the second block of Classics 101, meets the college language requirement). (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of ancient history as an arena of cultural contact between different ethnic, religious and cultural communities. Emphasis on the Persian Empire as "other" to Greeks and Jews, on Alexandria as a "melting pot" or "salad bowl," and on the Greco-Roman society of later antiquity as locus of changing identities. Mixed and dialogical cultural forms such as History, New Comedy, Pastoral, Apocalypse, Romance, Acts, and Gospel. Reading selected from Herodotus, the Bible, Plautus, Theocritus, Polybius, Vergil, Caesar Augustus, Philo and Petronius. (Also listed as History 209.) 1 unit - Cramer.
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5.00 Credits
Starting with exercises for students with little or no experience in Sanskrit, a sequence of courses in basic reading and pronunciation skills (emphasizing Sanskrit's unique euphonic system), increasingly complex grammatical forms and structures, strong focus on in-class oral recitation from memory, vocabulary building, grammar and translation, culminating in independent translations of selected primary source material. (Also listed as Asian Studies 121.) .5 unit - Summer.
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3.00 Credits
Starting with exercises for students with little or no experience in Sanskrit, a sequence of courses in basic reading and pronunciation skills (emphasizing Sanskrit's unique euphonic system), increasingly complex grammatical forms and structures, strong focus on in-class oral recitation from memory, vocabulary building, grammar and translation, culminating in independent translations of selected primary source material. Prerequisite: Classics 141. (Also listed as Asian Studies 122.) .5 unit - Summer.
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5.00 Credits
Starting with exercises for students with little or no experience in Sanskrit, a sequence of courses in basic reading and pronunciation skills (emphasizing Sanskrit's unique euphonic system), increasingly complex grammatical forms and structures, strong focus on in-class oral recitation from memory, vocabulary building, grammar and translation, culminating in independent translations of selected primary source material. (Also listed as Asian Studies 123.) .5 unit - Summer.
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3.00 Credits
Starting with exercises for students with little or no experience in Sanskrit, a sequence of courses in basic reading and pronunciation skills (emphasizing Sanskrit's unique euphonic system), increasingly complex grammatical forms and structures, strong focus on in-class oral recitation from memory, vocabulary building, grammar and translation, culminating in independent translations of selected primary source material. Prerequisite: Classics 143. (Not offered 2008-09.) .5 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Greek literature, including Homer and dramatic, philosophical or historical writing. Prerequisite: Classics 101 or consent of instructor. .5 unit - Cramer, Dobson.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Greek literature, including Homer and dramatic, philosophical or historical writing. Prerequisite: Classics 101 or consent of instructor. .5 unit - Cramer, Dobson.
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3.00 Credits
Continuity and change from Roman antiquity to the Christian Middle Ages in the art and architecture of Mediterranean lands (200-600 A. D.). The "decline" of Rome and the development of Christian imagery will be studied through art, archaeological sites, and texts-writings from the time as well as later historians. Prerequisite: Art History 111, 112 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Major writers and schools from the thousand year history of Greek philosophical research in the areas of nature, the gods, the mind, and ways of life: Ionian and Italian Pre-Socratics, Plato and the Academy, Aristotle, Pyrrho, the Cynics, the Stoa, Epicurus and Lucretius, and the revival in Late Antiquity of Pyrronian Scepticism and Platonism. Emphasis on close reading of the texts (including certain Greek terms) and on critical and comparative writing. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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