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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Introduction to the literature, art, and social and political institutions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, and early Greece from 3000 to 500 B.C.E. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(II.) Bulman
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Introduction to the literature, art and thought and the political and social institutions and values of Greece and its eastern Mediterranean neighbors—the Persians, Egyptians, and Judeans. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. (II.) Traill
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the history, literature, material culture, political and social institutions and values of Roman Civilization, with an emphasis on the development of the Roman Empire and the interactions of Roman culture with other Mediterranean cultures. GE credit: ArtHum.—III. (III.) Stem
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Lecture—3 hours. Examination of major myths of Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Near East; their place in the religion, literature and art of the societies that produced them; their subsequent development, influence and interpretation. GE credit: ArtHum.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Rundin, Stem, Traill
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Lives and roles of women in ancient Greece and Rome. Readings from history, philosophy, medical and legal documents, literature and myth. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Roman life in an urban community at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius. Slide presentations of the archeological evidence will be supplemented by selected readings from Petronius’ Satyricon and other ancient authors. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—Traill
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Lecture—3 hours. Knowledge of Latin and Greek not required. Elements of Greek and Latin vocabulary for increased understanding of English word formation and improved ability to understand and retain unfamiliar words. Emphasis on Greek and Latin elements but other languages not neglected.—III. (III.) Albu, Bulman
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Lecture—3 hours. Knowledge of Greek and Latin not required. Elements of Greek and Latin vocabulary to increase understanding of English word formation in medical, scientific and technical terminology and improve ability to understand and retain unfamiliar terms.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Mathematics 16A or the equivalent. Study of the emergence of scientific rationality in ancient Greece and its political and social context; concentration on four areas: mathematics, medicine, cosmology, and psychology. Reading from the Presocratics, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophers. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture—3 hours; film viewing—2.5 hours. Prerequisite: any Classics course except 30 or 31. The Classical World as portrayed in films. Viewings and discussions of modern versions of ancient dramas, modern dramas set in the Ancient Mediterranean world, and films imbued with classical themes and allusions. Supplementary readings in ancient literature and mythology. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(II.) Albu
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: one course in ancient history or consent of instructor. Issues in the development of rhetoric from its origins in ancient Greece to A.D. 430. Special attention to works of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Role of grammar and rhetoric in schools of Roman Empire. The Christian rhetoric of Saint Augustine. Not open for credit to students who have completed Rhetoric and Communication 110 or Communication 110. (Former course Rhetoric and Communication 110.) GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 4A or 10 or Comparative Literature 1. Reading of Iliad, dyssey, and Aeneid in English. Discussion of Homer’s and Vergil’s techniques of composition, the beliefs and values of their respective societies and the influence of Homer on Vergil. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(II.) Bulman, Schein
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Lecture—3 hours; conference—1 hour. Readings in Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence; lectures on the development of ancient comedy. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—Bulman
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Examination of the ancient Greek romances and their development into the grotesque realism of Petronius’ Satyricon, and the religious mysticism of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—Schein
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 4A or 10. Reading in English of selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Lectures on the development and influence of Athenian tragedy. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(II.) Traill
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 4A. Study of the major sources of our knowledge of Socrates to assess his role in the politics and culture of ancient Athens; his method of teaching and its place in Western thought. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: one of course 1, 2, 10, 15, Art History 1A, or Anthropology 3 recommended. Archaeological monuments of the ancient Near East, including Egypt and Mesopotamia, and of Greece and Crete during the Bronze Age. Special emphasis on the problems of state formation and on the co-existence and collapse of Bronze Age societies. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Examination of the origin and development of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture from the eighth century to the mid-fifth century B.C. Not open for credit to students who have completed Art History 154A. (Same course as Art History 172A.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Study of the art and architecture of later Classical and Hellenistic Greece, from the mid-fifth century to the first century B.C. Not open for credit to students who have completed Art History 154B. (Same course as Art History 172B.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(II.) Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. The art and architecture of Rome and the Roman Empire, from the founding of Rome through the fourth century C.E. Not open for credit to students who have completed Art History 155. (Same course as Art History 173.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: a lower division Classics course, except Classics 3, 20, 30, or 31. Cults, festivals, and rituals of Greek religious practice and their relationship to Greek social and political institutions, and to Greek private life. Includes discussion of major sanctuaries at Olympia, Delphi, Athens, and others. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—Roller
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Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: a lower division course (except 30, 31); Art History 1A recommended. Architecture and urban development in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Special emphasis on the social structure of the ancient city as expressed in its architecture, and on the interaction between local traditions and the impact of Greco-Roman urbanism. (Same course as Art History 175.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.—(II.) Roller
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Seminar—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: completion of one upper division course in Latin, Greek or Hebrew or consent of instructor. Advanced interdisciplinary study of a problem in the ancient Mediterranean world using the techniques of history, archaeology, art history and philology. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—I.
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Discussion—1 hour; independent study; term paper. Prerequisite: admission to the honors program and consent of faculty member supervising honors thesis. Directed reading, research and writing culminating in the completion of a senior honors thesis under the direction of faculty adviser. (Deferred grading only, pending completion of sequence. P/NP grading only.)—I-II, II-III.
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