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Books
Assigned : Writing
Assigned : Help
for Writing :
Help for Reading
[you may click on the above for information & help]
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Unit I
[click for syllabus]
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Defining
Culture: Some Greek & Roman Models
What do we
mean by Culture?
For assigned modules from Sappho, Catullus, Homer,
Virgil & Herodotus, click
here. For a first, brief TIME CHART ,
click here.
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Unit II
[click for syllabus]
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Culture in Action: Rise & Fall of Empire
[Athens fifth
century (500-400) BCE]
Cultural
Conflict in Myth (drama: tragedy): Antigone, click
here, & Prometheus Bound,
click here.
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Cultural Conflict in Action (war: history) (oligarchy vs democracy; human nature vs
law):
for Thucydides readings click
here.
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Unit III
[click for syllabus]
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Critique of Athens & Proposed Alternative
Cultural Models (utopian visions) Failing Democratic Culture: Lysistrata (satiric critique: comic vision)
click here , & Socrates' Apology (philosophical-satiric
critique: tragic vision)) , click
here.
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Plan
to Cure Democracy's Ills. Plato's New Model Culture, theRepublic, for a guide, click here.
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Unit IV [click for syllabus]
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Root Models: Powers & Flaws of Heroism
Old
Model (heroic values & plots): Homer,
click here.[under development]
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Unit V [click for syllabus]
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Rome
Remodels Culture
Rome
Revises Homeric Roots (new empire demands new terms of fame
& heroism): for Virgil, click
here .
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Aroma of Peace (further novelty in values
& plot): for Petronius, click
here.
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