AP/LA 3120 3.00 Roman Satire
A reading of select works of Latin satire in the ORIGINAL LATIN.
A reading of select works of Latin satire in the ORIGINAL LATIN.
This course examines Greek myths of gods and heroes in their social, religious and historical contexts through close reading of primary texts and visual representations and through analysis of modern comparative, psychoanalytical and structuralist theories.
This course examines literature, art and architecture in its social and cultural context within a specified period of Roman history. The course may focus on either the late Republic or the age of Augustus of the age of Nero or the age of Trajan.
ANCILLARY COURSE. Investigations include methodological limitations; Old Testament, archaeology and ideology; Israel's origins; the settlement of Canaan; Philistia and the Israelite state; the Davidic Revolutions; the twin kingdoms; Assyria, Babylonia and the end of the Israelite people.
A survey of legal concepts, practices, and narratives in the ancient world (Greece, Rome, and the Near East). Students will learn how the law is shaped by culture and history and how law and legal values are expressed in language, literature, rituals, and art.
A survey of legal concepts, practices, and narratives in the ancient world (Greece, Rome, and the Near East). Students will learn how the law is shaped by culture and history and how law and legal values are expressed in language, literature, rituals, and art.
The course examines the main principles of Roman rhetoric through a study in the original Latin of selected speeches of Cicero, speeches incorporated into other Roman prose texts, and passages from works of rhetorical theory.
This course surveys the literature and culture of the Roman Republic, 509 - 31 BCE. Beginning with the material and cultural record of pre-historical Rome in the 7th to 3rd centuries, this course examines the song and performance culture of Early Rome. The course then considers the fusion of Greek and Italian elements that laid […]
Crosslisted CLST 3106/HUMA 3106 6.0/RLST 3106 6.0 Why do ancient people write about the lives of others? What were ancient people doing when they wrote about themselves? This course explores biographical and autobiographical writing in the ancient Mediterranean among Greeks, Romans, and minoritized populations (including Jews and Christians) not as straightfoward and narrow descriptions of […]
This course examines Greek and Roman religious beliefs and practices from an interdisciplinary perspective. Special attention is given to four major approaches to the divine (ritual, myth, art and philosophy) and their integration with other aspects of society and culture.