Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. Hellenistic and Roman Egypt are studied through English translations of documents related to government, economics, society, and religion in the six centuries following Alexander the Great. Not open to first-year students. Acquaints students with the fundamental concepts of Roman private law, their legal origin in the society and government of the High Roman Empire, and their all-important influence on the development of Western European legal theory and tradition. The phenomena of literary decadence are isolated and examined in representative works including Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Petronius, Juvenal, and Augustine.
Reference is made to parallel periods of decadence in other literatures.
101 or 102, and permission of instructor. May be repeated for a total of six credits. This is a team-taught seminar designed to give concentrators in Class. The emphasis is on the methods that different specialists use to study these problems, in particular on the interpretation of the various types of information based on detailed analysis and overall synthesis. The Classical Tradition.