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Course description:
    Four thousand years of human history – from 2000 B.C. to Brexit – in twenty-eight lectures. From Babylon to Baghdad this course surveys the values and identities of European civilization. Who did these peoples think they were? Who did they think they were not? What was the relationship between humanity, God (or the gods), and Nature? What were the ideals of male and female virtue? We will explore these ideas and more through religion and philosophy, literature, and art from the different ages and societies spanning three millennia.

Requirements:

 

1. Short papers
          I. Week 2 (Aeschylus, Oresteia, 2pp.)
          II. Week 5 (Beowulf - discussion only)
          III. Week 14 (Christa Wolf, Cassandra, 2pp.)

40%
  2. Midterm (Thursday, March 5)

20%

  3. Final Exam 30%
  4. Discussions, attendance 10%

Books

  1. Aeschylus, Oresteia [458 b.c.], trans. R. Fagles (Penguin)
  2. Beowulf, [ca. A.D. 1000], trans. S. Heaney (Norton)
  3. Christa Wolf, Cassandra [a.d. 1984], trans. J. van Heurck (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

    recommended - either #4 or #5
  4. Anthony Grafton & David Bell, The West (Norton, 2018 – isbn 978-0-393-62332-1)
  5. Lynn Hunt, T. Martin, B. Rosenwein & B. Smith, The Making of the West, combined volume, 6th edition (Macmillan, 2019 – isbn 978-1-319-10344-6)

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