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Preference to freshmen. Spartacus and his army of slaves resisted the power of the Roman legions for two years and became the stuff of legend. Introduction to Roman history. Slavery in ancient Rome in its psychological, social, and economic dimensions. Causes of Spartacus' rebellion; how the traumatic end of the rebellion gave rise to a legend popularized in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film.

Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.

How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change.

Greek history from the rise of the city state through Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia. Economics, society, culture, and technology. Competition and cooperation within and between states; the emergence of strong forms of citizenship along with chattel slavery and gender inequality; the origins and practices of democracy; and relations with non-Greek peoples. Focus is on ancient sources and archaeological remains.

Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.

Focus is on the nature and mechanics of justice in Ancient Greece. Topics include the mythological origins of justice (Hesiod's Theogony, Aeschylus' Eumenides), the development of rhetoric and argumentation (Gorgias' Encomium of Helen, Isocrates' Helen, Aristotle's Rhetoric), court speeches (Lysias' Orations), aesthetic criticism (Aristophanes' Frogs), and figurations of afterlife judgment (the Orphic Gold Tablets, Plato's Republic and Gorgias). Readings in English for undergraduates, and ancient Greek for graduate students.

How ancient Greece become central to the definition of modernity; how ancient Greek ideas and ideals shaped modern life over the last 250 years; how modern perspectives changed perception of the ancients. Sources include ancient and modern historians, travel and antiquarian writings, French and American revolutionary debates, archaeological images, and modern visual imagery. May be repeated for credit.

When Alexander the Great swept through and conquered the Persian empire at the end of the 4th century B.C., it touched off massive changes in the political and socioeconomic structure of the Mediterranean world. Focus is on the major developments in the history, culture, and economy of the Mediterranean world from these conquests of Alexander to the annexation of Egypt by Augustus in 30 B.C.E.

Seminar on Greco-Roman warfare, looking at why and how wars were fought, their causes and consequences, and the experience and expense of fighting. Emphasis on comparative approaches, juxtaposing ancient Mediterranean war with warfare in other parts of the world, wars in earlier and later periods, and conflict among other species.