Politics 211 - Ancient/Medieval Polit Thought

'Through the works of the ancient tragedians and comedians, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Augustine, Aquinas, and Pizan, this course explores themes in ancient and medieval political thought. In alternating years, the course will be taught as either a survey of a wide array of authors or as a more thematically focused study of just a few writers. In either format, we will pay particular attention to the ways these writers characterized the relationship between the individual and community; the roles knowledge, reason, emotion, and rhetoric play in political life; the link between gender and citizenship; and the various forms political community can take.'

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors