Description
•Core Seminar V: Ancient
This course covers a number of important primary sources, all of them written by key authors whose work was done mainly during the Ancient world in both Western and non-Western cultures in a variety of humanistic and scientific fields. Representative authors may include such figures as Aristophanes, Aristotle, St. Augustine, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible (Genesis), the Buddha, Julius Caesar, Confucius, Euclid, Lao-Tzu, Ovid, Plato, Sappho, and Sophocles, though assignments may vary slightly from year to year. The goal of the course is to empower students to grapple directly with accessible presentations by leading historical figures.