CLCV 160

Spring 2007 All Classes

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Ancient Greek & Roman Religion

Credit: 3 hours.

Study of Greek and Roman Paganism and the rise of Christianity within that context. Readings are confined to ancient sources in English translation.

Same as RLST 160.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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CLCV 160 class schedule data for spring 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46368	Lecture	A	11:00AM -12:15PM	MW	G9 Foreign Languages Building	Parca, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Ancient Greek and Roman Religion, 3 hours. First Year Discovery Program Course. Registration restricted to freshmen. Students should enroll in only one Discovery course. This course will focus on the spread of Greco-Roman pagan religion throughout the ancient world, and the ways in which local, traditional cultures embraced, reacted against, or otherwise accommodated the religious practices and beliefs of an external, dominant (Hellenistic, then Roman) political/economic empire. The coming of Christianity similarly is studied as a kind of sweeping, global change in religious beliefs and practices that, in the wake of much hostility and overtly expressed anxiety, underwent a change from an external, anti-imperial threat to something continuous with empire and at the heart of ones being considered a good Roman. At the heart of this course are issues of race, ethnicity, and the threat put to traditional religious societies by larger political and economic forces. These themes are highlighted in ways that are apt to cause reflection on similar issues in the contemporary world.