Classics & Ancient World
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Biblical Narrative: The Stories of the Patriarchs (Genesis 12-36)
Course Introduction: Rome's Greatness and First Crises
Israel in Egypt: Moses and the Beginning of Yahwism (Genesis 37-Exodus 4)
Clovis and the Franks
Literary Prophecy: Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum and Habakkuk
Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander
Unintended Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (c. 1475-80)
The Reign of Justinian
The Disordered Soul: Themis and PTSD
Survival in the East
The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Charlemagne
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Crisis of the Carolingians
The Restoration: 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah
Benjamin West's Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
"To Paint the Way the Spartans Spoke": Gavin Hamilton's The Death of Lucretia
Censorship
The Christian Roman Empire
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Crucial Seventh Century
Literary Prophecy: Perspectives on the Exile (Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Second Isaiah)
Vikings and the European Prospect, 1000
Literary Prophecy: Amos
Charlemagne in Glass
The West Facade of Chartres