Various voices of ancient Roman literature in translation, including selections from the poetry of Lucretius, elegiac and lyric poets, Vergil, Ovid, and Juvenal; from the historians Livy and Tacitus; and from the prose works of Petronius and Apuleius. Their meaning and wisdom for later generations. (Gen.Ed. AL)

Archaeology of ancient Greece in Minoan-Mycenaean, Geometric, Archaic, and Classical Periods. Methods, progress, and ethics of archaeological research. Emphasis on remains displaying the architectural and urbanistic development of major cities and sanctuaries, and on their contribution to western civilization. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Our goal is to read all of Herodotus? Histories (in English) with particular attention to themes such as historical inquiry, democracy, and ethnographic and cultural differences among peoples of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. We will spend some time on Herodotus? account of the Persian Wars and examine how his major themes inform his account. We will focus on the origins of the conflict between Western culture and that of the Near East, mainly the wars between the Persians and the Greeks. We will also pay attention to Herodotus' writing style and methodology.

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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.

Introduction to Classical Archaeology will examine the material history of the Archaic and Classical Periods of Greece and the Archaic through Imperial periods of Italy and it's empire. The course is designed to provide a foundation of knowledge related to the architecture, physical space, religious ritual, material cultural, social form and political development of these regions. (Gen.Ed. AT)

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