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Classical Civilization (CCIV) 1 Classical Civilization (CCIV) 1 autocracy. Drawing on a range of sources in translation (historical, legal, poetic), we will explore the emergence and evolution of political systems, from the CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION rise of democracy in Greece to its lapse into oligarchy, and from the Roman Republic to its subversion by charismatic leaders and the advent of empire. Along (CCIV) the way, we will discuss the rise of a celebrity culture and the impact of the CCIV112F Three Great Myths: Prometheus, Persephone, and Dionysus (FYS) increasing importance of public spectacles and entertainments as a vehicle for This course is a detailed analysis of three important myths from classical the demoralization of citizens and the slide into autocracy. Where did they go antiquity: the stories of Prometheus, Persephone, and Dionysus. Students will wrong? examine literary and visual representations from antiquity and also consider how Offering: Host these myths live on in the Western tradition. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS Credits: 1.00 Prereq: None Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS CCIV129F Ancient Monuments: Landscape, History, and Memory (FYS) Prereq: None In this course, we will examine some of the most renowned sites from Greek CCIV115F Crafting (Un)Ideal States: Utopias and Games of the Mind, Past and and Roman antiquity, such as the Parthenon and the other monuments on and Present (FYS) near the Athenian Acropolis, the Colosseum and Forum in Rome, and Pompeii. Utopias are imaginary places that promise freedom, equality, and happiness. The aim is to get a broad understanding of their significance, and so the sources In this course, we will look at different visions of utopian living: What kinds of will include ancient texts, modern scholarship and travel narrative, and visual hope, longing, and impulses do these utopias fulfill? What kind of social critique representations such as drawings and photographs. We will pay particular do they imply? How can they offer freedom and happiness while built on strict attention to the ways in which the ancient sites interact with their surroundings. programs of biological, psychological, and social engineering? When does one's Offering: Host utopia become another's dystopia? Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 We will start with ancient Greek poetry and philosophy--Homer, tragedy, Gen Ed Area: HA-ENVS Aristophanic comedy, and Plato--to trace the beginnings of utopian thinking and Prereq: None the promises that it makes. In the last part of the semester, we will look at how CCIV130F Looking Back, Moving Forward: Identities, Politics, and Truth-Making these early seeds of utopia are recast and developed in later and contemporary in Classical Antiquity (FYS) literature, theory, and television shows, including Thomas More's "Utopia" and The world of classical antiquity has been both celebrated and reviled for its Emily St. John Mandel's "Station Eleven"; selections from T. Adorno, E. Bloch, and role in shaping historical notions of who and what matters, and whose truths F. Jameson; and select episodes from "Black Mirror." are passed into posterity. From politics and media to social identities and the Offering: Host creation of canon, this course will explore constructions of authority, power, and Grading: OPT truth-making in the classical world and their echoes in modern life. How does Credits: 1.00 democracy enfranchise some and marginalize others? Who has the "authority" Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS to decide what is natural law, scientific truth, divine right? Is there a difference Prereq: None between truth-telling and truth-making in the stories we tell, the information we CCIV118 The Fall of Rome and Other Stories share, the art that we make? The fifth-century fall of Rome to barbarian invaders is an idea that slowly crystallized over time. This course will examine the birth and development of This course will turn to a variety of materials from the ancient Greek and Roman this "fall"--one of the most persistent stories in history--using the very texts world--including myth, literature, medicine, law, drama, archaeological sites, in which it was first articulated. We will work with selections from a range of and monuments--to address these questions. Class, status, race, ethnicity, authors--Suetonius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Ammianus Marcellinus, Augustine of the marginalized "other," religion, civic identity, and the writing of history and Hippo, Jordanes, Procopius of Caesarea and many others--to connect the fall of science will emerge as central to ancient thinking and offer critical perspectives Rome with other attempts to explain catastrophe and change. The course will for reconsidering intersectional identities today. By looking systematically conclude by surveying the persistence of the fall of Rome as an idea, through the at different facets of the ancient world, we may come to a more nuanced medieval, early modern, and modern periods, right into contemporary discourse. understanding of injustices, inequities, and constructions of modernity through Offering: Crosslisting their ancient origins, and look critically at our current practices and perspectives. Grading: OPT Offering: Host Credits: 1.00 Grading: OPT Gen Ed Area: HA-COL Credits: 1.00 Identical With: COL247, HIST247 Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS Prereq: None Prereq: None CCIV120F From Democracy to Autocracy: Demagogues, Tyrants, and Popular CCIV153F Single Combat in the Ancient World (FYS) Media in Ancient Greece and Rome (FYS) This course celebrates the clash of warriors in warfare, sport, and spectacle in Although different, the political systems of Greece and Rome, many of which the classical world. Using primary sources and archaeological evidence, the class serve as a model for our own government, were carefully designed to balance will survey traditions of combat in ancient art, literature, and society, beginning military, social, and political participation and empowerment, and to defend with Greek and Near Eastern epic; the modes of warfare in Greek society; against the consolidation of power by any single citizen or group. Eventually, ancient Olympic combat sports; and, finally, Roman gladiator spectacle. We will both Greek democracy and the Roman Republic failed. Why? This course examine the role of violent sport in Greek and Roman society, the reception of examines in depth the political and legal structures of two ancient societies the competitors, and the use of these events for political or nationalistic ends. which began with participatory or representative governments and slid toward Throughout the course we will explore the flexibility of concepts such as military 2 Classical Civilization (CCIV) ethics, "western" warfare, violence, honor, and excellence, both in the classical Grading: A-F world and in our modern lives. Credits: 1.00 Offering: Host Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS Grading: OPT Prereq: None Credits: 1.00 CCIV201 Art and Archaeology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS This course is an introduction to the history, art, and archaeology of the Bronze Identical With: ARCP153F Age Mediterranean. Throughout the semester we will explore the development Prereq: None of civilization and high society in the Aegean world (mainland Greece, the CCIV170 Rome and the Caesars islands, Cyprus, and Crete), the rise of Minoan and Mycenaean palace power, The Roman world changed irrevocably with the establishment of the Augustan the origin of the biblical Philistines, and, of course, the historical evidence for principate (i.e., when Augustus became first emperor, 27BCE--14CE). But it the Trojan War. We also look at the contemporary Near Eastern cultures with was only after Augustus' death that the consequences of his reforms became which these societies interacted, exploring the reciprocal exchange between the apparent. Rome suffered a turbulent century under a succession of emperors, Aegean world and Egypt, Syria, and the Hittite kingdoms. For each period we will variously represented as mad, bad, and dangerous to know. In this course we survey the major archaeological sites (civic and cultic), examine archaeological will study the period through contemporary or near-contemporary texts in an questions, and study the development of sculpture, painting, ceramics, and attempt to analyze the demoralization of the traditional Roman ruling classes architectural trends in light of political and social changes. and the slide into autocracy. We will examine the characters and policies of Offering: Host emperors from the period and will discuss the rise of a celebrity culture and the Grading: A-F increased importance of public spectacles and entertainments. We will also look Credits: 1.00 at modern portrayals of the period in visual media (e.g., art, TV, movies). Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS Offering: Host Identical With: ARHA202, ARCP201 Grading: A-F Prereq: None Credits: 1.00 CCIV202 Greek Drama: Theater and Social Justice, Ancient and Modern Gen Ed Area: HA-CLAS This course introduces students to Greek drama as produced in its original Prereq: None setting in ancient Athens and then adapted in modern times. The majority of our CCIV175F Hold My Wine: Drinking Culture in Ancient Greece (FYS) readings will be drawn from classical material: tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Wine. Politics. Poetry. The potential for destructive behavior. All of these went and Euripides, comedies by Aristophanes, and selections from Aristotle's Poetics hand-in-hand with the ancient Greek "symposium," or drinking party. In this and Plato's Republic. We will look at production practices, acting and audience course we will study this custom and the roles it played in Ancient Greek society experience, and the role of theater in shaping cultural values. Questions will and art, as an institution that regulated membership in elite society, a source include: How does theater as art reflect the personal, social, and political of political and social unrest, a religious practice, an arena for the contestation life of the Athenians? What is the connection between the development of of philosophical ideas, and a venue for the performance of music and poetry.
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