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201. Great Books of the Ancient World. No credit granted to those who
have completed or are enrolled in Gt. Bks. 191 or Classical Civ.
101. (4). (HU).
In this course we will trace the movement of Western literature through the themes of journey, homecoming, and exile, depicted
in the genres of epic, tragedy, and comedy, as well as in philosophical
and theological writings. We will be reading the following texts:
Homer's Odyssey; Aeschylus' Agamemnon trilogy;
Euripides' Medea; Sophocles' Oedipus the King
and Antigone; Plato's Symposium; Aristophanes' Lysistrata; sections of the Old Testament; and Vergil's Aeneid. Our objective will be to see how the quest for
home shifts through the unfolding of literary history. By examining the polemics of home and exile, external and internal movement
(action versus contemplation), and the tensions of gender, we
will explore the existential, ethical, historical, and theological
implications of what it means to be at home. (Klingerman)
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201. Great Books of the Ancient World. No credit granted to those who
have completed or are enrolled in Gt. Bks. 191 or Classical Civ.
101. (4). (HU).
Through the works of poetry, drama, history, and philosophy, this
course will explore the complicated relationship between identity
and justice. We oftern find that our sense of self is partly formed
by our concept of justice, and if something acts in opposition
to our understanding o justice out entire identity is compromised.
These works depict the ways in which we try to form and understand ourselves and how our desperate need to hold onto our identity
causes us to shape the world around us. To understand this relationship, we will read the following texts: Homer's Odyssey; Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone,
parts of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War,
Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato's Apology, and Vergil's Aeneid. It will be fun. (Miller-Purrenhage)
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