MODERN GREEK LITERATURE & CULTURE AFTER INDEPENDENCE
A general survey of the development of Greek literature and culture from the early 19th century, as they related to contemporary Greek consciousness. Further practice and study of modern Greek.
Empires and colonialism in the Modern Mediterranean
This course introduces students to modern Mediterranean history through the colonial expansion of Britain, France and Italy from the late eighteenth nineteenth until the middle of the twentieth century. The end of the colonial era in the Mediterranean came when nationalist uprisings and movements gave rise to independent, post-colonial states in North Africa and the Middle East. The course will introduce students to the debates on the beginnings of modernization in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East and to debates on de-colonization and the unity of the Mediterranean.
The course will build on the students' knowledge of modern European history and expand on the history of main European countries as colonial powers in the Mediterranean. The course will compare different forms of rule and colonial practices introduced by the colonial powers and will offer students the opportunity to specialize in the history of French, British or Italian colonization in the Mediterranean.
The course highlights major events in world history: from Napoleon's campaign in Egypt to the colonization of Mediterranean islands and North Africa, the First and Second World Wars, de- colonization and the Suez Crisis, and the emergence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Overall, the course introduces students to such concepts as 'orientalism', 'power', 'resistance', 'collaboration' and 'post-colonialism' in the Mediterranean historical context; it is expected that students will also want to discuss recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
GREECE, A MODERN HISTORY
Learn about major developments in European and world history by focusing on the history of Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course includes visits to historical sites, museums, research centres in Athens and two trips to Nafplio in the Peloponnese and Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros. Every topic and on-site teaching is related to major world history events; industrialization, nation-state building, WWI and WWII, urban growth, migration and refugee settlement, political change and heritage as well as the recent political and economic events in the European Union. Prepare for a special experiential education trip that students last summer called it an experience of a lifetime.
Greeks in the World. A history of Greek migration and diaspora in the 20th Century
This course examines the history of migration from Greece to North America, Australia and Europe from the end of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century using case studies, concepts and theories of migration. Students will discuss in the online forum and in their essays: the causes and conditions of migration and the migration experience, the shifts in the study of migration history from socio-economic factors to the history of individuals; the economic conditions and state policies in Greece and the various destination countries; the creation of immigrant communities, the role of the Church, politics and relations with other immigrant groups. The course will draw comparisons with immigrant groups whose experience resembles the Greek one. Specific topics include: gendered migration and ‘picture brides’, repatriation and relations with Greece as homeland, racism and assimilation, anti-Greek riots and their consequences.
MODERN GREECE
This course examines the main political, economic and social events that shaped the history of Modern Greece. The journey into Modern Greek History begins in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and explores the integration of disparate regions under Ottoman and Venetian rule into an independent, prosperous and regionally strong nation-state. Topics to be examined include: the Ottoman and Venetian forms of rule, the Greek Enlightenment, the war of independence, economic and social change in the nineteenth century; urbanization, political patronage and the gradual incorporation of Greek economy and society to the European one; the expansion of Greek territory and the struggle with Turkey; migration, war and occupation; the Civil War (1946-1949) and the post-civil war state; industrialization, emigration and the Greek Diaspora; the 1967-1974 dictatorship and finally the inclusion of Greece to the ongoing project of European integration, are among the main themes examined in the course. The course will introduce you to the history as well as the historiography of Modern Greece.
SPORT & SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE
This course studies the place of athletic competition in ancient Greek society, with a particular focus on the Archaic and Classical periods and on the Panhellenic games, of which the Olympic Games were the most important.
MYTH IN ANCIENT GREECE: TEXTS AND THEORIES
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.
GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION
This course explores literary and archeological evidence for practices associated with honouring the gods in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. We will be attentive to variations in practice and belief from one locale to another and from one level of society to another.
GREEK DRAMA AND CULTURE
A survey of ancient Greek drama in translation. The plays will be looked at mainly in terms of structure, of religious thought, and of political expression.
LATER GREEK PROSE
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP GK 4030
PREREQUISITE: AP/GK 2000 6.00 or permission of director of classical studies.