CLA331

This course explores the various ways the Greeks and Romans speculated about and defined human difference. In this course we explore a variety of theories from antiquity that constitute what we today call race/ethnicity and how these ideas about identity manifested in ancient writings and images. The course includes readings from ancient poetry, drama, medical texts, geography, ethnography, philosophy, etc. We explore these ancient theories from Homer to Late Antiquity as well as how these theories were received in later times, with a special emphasis on the reception of ancient environmental theories of identity in the modern United States. WRITL, Offered occasionally.

Writing & Info Literacy (WRITL)

All Years