| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Classics (X) |
A study in translation of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and other ancient epics, and of the place of these epics in Greek and Roman society.
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A discussion section led by the instructor, provided for students in the honors program. Students receive one unit for the honors seminar (36H) in addition to four units for Classics 36.
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Reading and lecture survey of principal Greek writers, such as Homer, Pindar, and Thucydides.
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A discussion section led by the instructor, provided for students in the honors program. Students receive one unit for the honors seminar (37H) in addition to four units for Classics 37.
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Reading and lecture survey of principal Roman writers.
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Discussion section led by the instructor, provided for students in the honors program. Students receive one unit for the honors seminar (38H) in addition to four units for Classics 38.
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Study of the protrayal of women in selected Greek and Latin authors from the seventh century B.C. to the second century A.D. and this portrayal's relationship to the literary, historical, and social backgrounds of the works concerned.
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Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in whichthese myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.
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A discussion section led by the professor is available to students in the honors program. Students will receive one unit for the honors seminar (40H)in addition to four units for Classics 40.
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Examines the techniques and methods of classical archaeology as revealed through an examination of the major monuments and artifacts of the Greco-Roman world from prehistory to the Late Empire.
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Introduction to the various aspects of Greek civilization such as art, education, daily life, festivals, law, religion, science, and sports.
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Introduction to the various aspects of Roman civilization such as art, education, daily life, festivals, law, religion, science, and sports. Readings in primary sources in translation.
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Directed study, oriented toward research, to be arranged with individual faculty members. Course offers exceptional students an opportunity to participate in a research project or group.
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A survey of th major Greek beliefs about such concepts as the nature of man--body, soul, afterlife, gods and men, man in the cosmos--from Homer to Plato. Readings (in translation) of poetic, philosophical, and medical texts.
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Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in English translation. Various aspects of Greek tragedy discussed: origins, historical development, costumes, staging, performance. Primary emphasis placed on the plays as literature plot, characters, language, etc. Role of tragedy in Greek culture.
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Taught in Greece as part of the summer curriculum offered by the Classics Department. Selections from Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Greek lyric are read as poetry related to the Greek land as well as to religion, politics, and temperament. The readings are in translation.
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The old and the new in classical Greek modes of thought; primitive religious and magical beliefs and scientific medical teachings. A study in the intellectual revolution of Greece. Readings in primary literary sources in translation and secondary literature.
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A study of public and private religion in the Roman Republic, including deities, priesthoods, rituals and ceremonies, as well as the relationship of religion to politics and history. Readings emphasize ancient sources in translation.
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Study of representations of "barbarians" in Greek literature, with special interest in their cultural and historical contexts, and in theconstruction of Athenian ideology. Readings from Homer, Herodotus, tragedy and comedy, with essays by Said, Bernal, Hall, and others.
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The romance, from Homer's Odyssey to the contemporary romance novel, creates images of masculinity and feminity. This course considers these gender representations and questions whether they vary among ancient novels, and between the romances of antiquity and those of today.
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Examines marriage customs and rituals in archaic and classical Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, and in the Roman Republic and Imperial periods within the context of social history, literary, historical, and epigraphic sources.
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Development, forms, and interpretation of ancient lyric poetry; such authors as Sappho, Pindar, Catullus, and Propertius in english translation.
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Development of history as a genre; such authors as Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy and Tacitus in English translation.
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The comic playwrights, such as Aristophane and Plautus, and satirists, suchas Lucian and Juvenal, in English translation.
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The tumultuous end of the Roman Republic, from Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the Rubicon (49 BC), had profound importance for the history of the West and produced a fascinating literature of crisis in the writings of Sallust, Cicero, Catullus, and Caesar.
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