It will illuminate the development of the urban space in the context of cultural, social and political life. The history of sport in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Caesars, with emphasis on its relationship to religion, education, literature, and community life. This course will study the functions of Greek myths in the non-Greek cultures which adopted them and so transmitted them to the later general culture of the West. The period to be explored extends from Augustan Rome through the European Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance in Italy. The historical and formal roots of fiction in the classical prose romances.
Special attention is paid to the influence of myth, religion, historiography and ethical biography.
Among texts studied are Daphnis and Chloe, Satyricon , and Aithiopika . This course is intended to complement courses in specified studies in classics. It engages the student in research and in critical writing, and permits the examination, in depth, of a topic of importance to the discipline and of interest to the student. A seminar course complementing courses of specific study in classics. It seeks to define the nature of the discipline, its values and its procedures.