There we will hear lectures by curators and study the installations. We will also attend an auction at Sotheby s or Christies in New York. For archaic Greek society, like many traditional societies that operate on ancestral principles, myths are the ultimate way of encoding truth values. In this course we will not only read some of the greatest works of Western literature, but we will begin to understand how the storytelling traditions of Greece establish social order and define what it means to be truly civilized. Lectures will be enhanced with slides, and movies.
Course concludes with oral poetry recitations by students.
This course examines issues of sex, sexuality, and gender in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science. Students will write several short essays throughout the term, make a scrapbook, and create a final research project of their own design, in consultation with the professor. An on-line course designed by Dartmouth Prof. Jeremy Rutter will be integrated into the course through assigments. Cross-listed with Art 307. The growth and development of of the Greek polis 'city-state' and religious sanctuaries including Athens, Olympia, Delphi, Eleusis, and Aegina will be examined with a view to understanding the society that produced such art and architecture.