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Harvard - Ancient Medicine

Theories and practices of health and healing in the ancient Greco-Roman world, with special emphasis on the relationship of learned medicine to philosophy and other healing traditions.
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Harvard - Classical Comedy from Aristophanes to Broadway

From Athenian political comedy to Terentian 'comedy of manners' and modern comedy. The course will explore the history and development of the genre of comedy and its modern reception, through the analysis of plays (read in translation) by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Broadway shows based on classical models. Comedies by other authors such as Dryden, Moliere, Von Keist, Giraudoux, Ionesco as well as theoretical essays on comedy by Bergson, Freud, Frye and others will also be analyzed.
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Harvard - Euripides' Bakkhai and the Modern Reception of Dionysos from 1872

An intercultural and interdisciplinary study of Dionysos in Greek and Roman antiquity, and of his modern reception beginning with Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, with emphasis on the pivotal role of this most Dionysiac of extant tragedies and its influence on the perception of Dionysos in literature, art and scholarship. Topics include divine and human identities; the wine and its beneficiaries; ritual ecstasy; the theater and the mask; gender roles and sexuality; suffering and sacrament; divine self-manifestation and epiphanic presence; polarities and otherness.
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Harvard - Greek Culture and Civilization

This course offers a survey of Greek history and culture from its earliest manifestations until Roman expansion incorporated a vast portion of the Greek world within imperial borders. It also teaches students how to reconstruct Greek history by examining primary texts and material culture in ways that prioritize Greek social relationships and cultural norms as much as political developments.
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Harvard - Mythology

The myths of the Greeks and Romans: creation myths, the Greek gods, Greek heroes and Roman myths, through the analysis of primary sources (read in translation), art (literature, painting, sculpture etc.), and modern theories on mythology.
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Harvard - Roman Culture and Civilization

Study of Ancient Roman culture and civilization.
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Harvard - Syria and Syrians under Greek Colonialism

This graduate course introduces students from varying disciplines to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. It examines the regional variations of Hellenism that the region produced.
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Harvard - The Rhetoric of Empire in Greek, Roman, and Christian Authors

This course is an introduction to Greek, Roman, and Christian oratory for students both familiar and unfamiliar with the fields of classics and ancient history. It aims to develop skills in approaching ancient speeches as staged public performances, literary and historical documents, and tools by which public speakers and audiences collaborated to frame collective identities by excluding "others."
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Harvard - The Secret History of Classical Texts

What is a Classic? Why is it valuable? Who decides? Perspectives from Homer's early readers, Roman Senators, medieval monastics, Renaissance humanists, and modern cultural critics, among others; the interplay of the ever-changing classical canon and individual patronage, imperial politics, cultural upheaval and technological change in the West. Recommended: previous acquaintance with the literature of Greece and Rome (the epics of Homer and Virgil, at a minimum). Recommended: previous acquaintance with the literature of Greece and Rome (the epics of Homer and Virgil, at a minimum).
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