AP/GK 3030 3.0 GREEK EPIC POETRY

AP/GK 3030 3.00

GREEK EPIC POETRY

CROSSLISTED COUSE: AP GK 4030

Readings from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
PREREQUISITE: AP/GK 2000 6.00 or permission of director of classical studies.

AP/HUMA 2830 9.0 FOUNDERS OF CHRISTIANITY

AP/HUMA 2830 9.00

FOUNDERS OF CHRISTIANITY

An introduction to the literature and history of the early Christian communities in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome. The varieties of early Christian thought and practice are examined in terms of their religious, cultural and political contexts.
Note: This course has been approved in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies for general education credit.
Course credit exclusions: None.
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 2830 9.00.

AP/HUMA 2110 9.0 EGYPT IN THE GREEK & ROMAN MEDITERRANEAN

AP/HUMA 2110 9.00

EGYPT IN THE GREEK & ROMAN MEDITERRANEAN

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
An examination of Egypt and Egyptians in the imagination and history of the cultures of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. The place of Egypt in the imagination of the cultures of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean was an important and pervasive fact of both ancient myth and history. Athenians from the Golden Age, Jews from Judea, Alexander the son of Philip, Roman warriors like Caesar and Antonius became directly involved in the life of Egypt of their own day and fascinated by the monumental and exotic features of Egyptian culture.

What they heard and saw made its way into the cultural narratives and even the reconstructed histories of the visitors. Many visitors stayed and provided in turn a fertile home for many important cultural and ritual events of the ancient Mediterranean. The Judean sections of Alexandria, Macedonian monarchs like Cleopatra Philopator, native and imported poets, scientists and scholars contributed to the rich mixture of Egyptian cultures and, in turn, informed the Greek and Roman culture of the rest of the Mediterranean

This course seeks to examine carefully the details of the imaginative and complicated portraits of Egypt and Egyptians fashioned in a variety of cultures around the Greek and Roman Mediterranean and to compare these to the rich remains and narratives created by Egyptians themselves over three millennia of monuments, artifacts and written records. Students are required to become familiar both with the Egyptians of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean and with the Egyptians who stood behind these artistic and cultural events.

AP/HIST 2110 6.0 ANCIENT NEAR EAST

AP/HIST 2110 6.00

ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Civilization began in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and then Egypt. Shortly thereafter, civilizations developed all over the Near East (modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran). This course surveys major developments in the political, social, and cultural history of the peoples and states of this region. In broad terms, the area covered by this course extends from the eastern Mediterranean to the Iranian plateau, and the time span ranges from about 3000 B.C. to the invasion of Alexander, some 2700 years later.
Major peoples and states studied include Sumer, Akkad, Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, the Hittites, Israel, and Persia, but not all these groups and not all their history will receive equal emphasis. History 2110 also investigates how we determine historical facts, especially the facts of ancient history. In this connection, we discuss problems and possibilities in the fields of archaeology, text interpretation, and historical geography, to name but three.

AP/HIST 2100 6.0 ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

AP/HIST 2100 6.00

ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

This course offers a general introduction to the history of ancient Greece and Rome. It surveys the ancient world from the Greek Bronze Age in the second millennium B.C. until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. Specific periods are studied with emphasis on the social, economic, and political history of each. Extensive use is made of primary sources (in translation), with special attention devoted to the evaluation of literary, archaeological, and documentary evidence.
Among the areas covered are Homeric society, the development of the polis in archaic and classical Greece, Athenian society in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the rise of Rome, politics and society in late Republican Rome, and the society, economy, and political structure of the Roman Empire. Texts, read in translation, typically include a selection of the following: Homer, Odyssey; the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides; selected Greek plays, law-court orations, and documentary inscriptions; Plutarch's lives of eminent Romans; speeches of Cicero; the historical works of Sallust and Tacitus; Petronius, Satyricon and letters of Pliny.

AP/PHIL 2015 3.0 PLATO AND ARISTOTLE

AP/PHIL 2015 3.00

PLATO AND ARISTOTLE (WINTER)

Plato and Aristotle are two of the pillars of philosophy. This course will introduce students to some of their most influential theses and works with a special emphasis on Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Students will also be introduced to the question of how and why their two opposite approaches to philosophy, rationalism and empiricism, still divide philosophers today.

AP/PHIL 2010 3.0 ORIGINS OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

AP/PHIL 2010 3.00

ORIGINS OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

An examination of the origin and early development of western philosophy. The works of the first philosophers, the Pre-Socratic, will be introduced and contextualized, providing an indispensable background to Plato and Aristotle, and the continuing development of philosophy.

AP/GKM 2000 6.0 INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK

AP/GKM 2000 6.00

INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK

This course is designed to improve the student's oral and written command of the modern Greek language. Short texts relevant to modern Greek culture will be read and analyzed.
This course is designed to improve the students' oral and written command of Modern Greek. Short texts relevant to Modern Greek culture will be analyzed for their content and style.
PREREQUISITE: AS/GKM1000 6.0 or AP/GKM1000 6.0; University Preparation Level 4 High School or OAC in Modern Greek or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

AP/GK 2000 6.0 INTERMEDIATE CLASSICAL AND BIBLICAL GREEK

AP/GK 2000 6.00

INTERMEDIATE CLASSICAL AND BIBLICAL GREEK

The course concentrates on building knowledge of grammar and vocabulary with the aim of reading passages in original Greek by the end of the year. The first part of the course consists of review of grammar and vocabulary presented in Greek 1000, the second part of the course completes the first-year textbook, and the third part of the course introduces continuous passages of original Greek.
PREREQUISITE: AP/GK 1000 6.0 or AP/GK 1400 6.0 or the equivalent with a grade of C+ or higher.

AP/HUMA 1710 6.0 THE ROOTS OF WESTERN CULTURE

AP/HUMA 1710 6.00

THE ROOTS OF WESTERN CULTURE

Note: Successful completion of this course fulfills General Education requirements in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
This course begins by considering the look back into such ancient times when stories were reworked and transmitted for generations through oral culture, and orienting students to the emerging cultural identities of the ancient Greek and ancient Hebrews.

For example we will study the documentary hypothesis which suggests that the Hebrew Bible is a composite work from several sources, and we will consider how our knowledge of "the Greeks" is often based on scant physical remains, fragmentary literary sources dependent on second and third hand authors, and is always interpretative. Students will be introduced to many kinds of literature which emerged in the ancient period: epic poetry, lyric poetry, fables and parables, dramatic works, philosophical and medical treatises and historical prose. We will want to engage in close readings of primary texts with a view to understanding key themes and ideas, historical, political, and social contexts, and religious beliefs and practices.Thus, along the way, we might consider parallels to, and influences from, even more ancient civilizations; highlight certain Greek gods and goddess and their festivals; and, consider the social status of women, or cultural differences between the Spartans and Athenians. We will always want to engage with the texts critically which will involve examining the perspectives of ancient authors, the use of art and literature for ideological ends, as well as our own assumptions about the past.

In addition to excerpts from the Old and New Testament, we will engage with a number of Greek and Roman authors which will include many of the following: Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Aesop, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Pythagoras, Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Livy, Virgil, Lucretius, Epicurus, Epictetus, Apuleius and Ovid. It was in the climate of the Roman world that the two major stands of Western thought, the Greco-Roman and Judeo–Christian, came together. After having spent some time on Archaic and Classical Greek writers, we will examine the adoption of Greek culture by the Romans who gave it their own personality. We will end the course with a look at the early Christian authors as they attempted to distinguish themselves both from the Law of the Jews and Greco-Roman polytheism