This course examines slavery in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the history of slavery and the literature and laws that shape its practice and emerge from it. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Clsics majors.

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Practice in writing and in oral communication skills. Assignments drawn from different areas of classical scholarship: language and literature, art and archaeology, or history and civilization. For classics majors, satisfies Junior Year Writing requirement.

This course examines the emergence and material culture of the Etruscan people from their roots in the Italic Iron Age (circa 1000 BCE) through its absorption into the Roman sphere.

Ritual, theology, and myth in ancient Greece, from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Interactions and rivalries among various religions. Emphasis on types of worship: public state religions, private mystery cults, hero cults.

When an inhabitant of a town or city in the Roman Empire looked around, what did they see? This course centers on the material world - things that were built, crafted, and created - to investigate how objects, social structures, and built spaces influenced and were informed by people's lived experiences. We will focus on evidence from the Roman provinces, including Britain, Egypt and Dura-Europos on the Euphrates River (modern Syria).

Archaeology of the Roman world during the Republic and Empire period. Methods, progress, and ethics of archaeological research. Emphasis on remains displaying the architectural and urbanistic development of Roman cities and colonies in Italy, North Africa, and Britain, and on their contribution to western civilization. (Gen.Ed. AT)

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