First-Year Courses in Classical Civilization This page was created at 6:49 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Classical Civilization (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for CLCIV Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Classical Civilization. CLCIV 102. Classical Civilization II: The Ancient Roman World (in English). Section 001. Instructor(s): Joseph D Reed (josephdr@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. What did it mean to be Roman in the Ancient World? Was it all about togas, orgies, and world conquest? Or anxiety, violence, and a propensity for self-destruction? This course will approach the issue of Roman identity from a variety of social, political, and philosophical angles. Using selected Roman historians (Livy, Tacitus) and poets (Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, and Lucan) as our guides, we will explore who the Romans thought they were, what position they felt their society occupied in the Mediterranean world and in the universe, and how their self-definition changed over time. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the Romans constructed their past in order to understand who they were in the present. Grade will be based on exams, papers, and participation in discussion sections. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 CLCIV 120. First-year Seminar in Classical Civilization (Humanities). Section 001 – The "Smell of Litigation" in Classical Athens. Instructor(s): Arthur Verhoogt (verhoogt@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~verhoogt/cc120.html Classical Athens was a litigious city. Every citizen could litigate another citizen and argue his case before a court of fellow citizens. A number of speeches arguing for or against a case have survived. Most of them were written by ancient speech writers who could be hired to argue a case for you. As a rule, these speeches give only one side of the proceedings; the actual litigation (against which the surviving speech argues) or defense (replying to the surviving speech) have been lost in the course of the centuries. During this course, students will be introduced to the litigation procedures in the Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. With the help of texts in translation students will be asked to read and analyze actual speeches. What are the particulars of the case that is being argued? What sort of arguments are used? What rhetorical techniques are applied? Should we "believe" the arguments given by the speaker? The class will also discuss the other side of these speeches that has not survived. Is it possible to reconstruct the arguments given by the litigant or defendant? What are possible modern arguments that can be adduced to argue these 2400 year old cases? Each week students will discuss a case, read the ancient text, think about the other side, and finally give an argued "verdict". Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 1 Waitlist Code: 4 CLCIV 120. First-year Seminar in Classical Civilization (Humanities). Section 002 – The Spartan Mirage. Instructor(s): Sara Forsdyke (forsdyke@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). First-Year Seminar Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The unique social and political system of ancient Sparta has fascinated outsiders from Herodotus to Hitler. Yet from the earliest period to the present, the image of Sparta has been an eclectic mix of fact and fiction. Do you know which of the following unusual features of our image of ancient Sparta are fact and which are fiction? The Spartan state gave every citizen an equal allotment of land, and made the men eat a simple food (black broth) in common messes or eating groups. All luxury was banned (hence a modestly furnished dwelling is now said to be "Spartan"). The Spartans did not use money or writing, and were famously hostile to debate and discussion (hence the modern expression for a quiet person as "laconic", after the ancient name for Spartans, Lacedaimonians). Spartan women underwent athletic training (in the nude) similar to men. Young men were required to sleep in dorms with other men, and had to visit their wives secretly at night. Men could share their wives with other men Children were removed from their parents at age seven, and brought up by the state with strict military discipline. Weak children were hurled off a mountain at birth. The aim of this course will be to determine what we can know about what ancient Sparta was actually like and to explore the ways that the image of Sparta has been distorted over time. More generally, the case of Sparta will be used to discuss the ways that individuals and communities use and abuse the past to effect social and political goals in their own times. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 4 This page was created at 6:49 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. 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