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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | ARCHB222001 |
| Course Title | Alexander the Great |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Classical Studies |
| Instructor | Tasopoulou,Evrydiki |
| Times and Days | TTh 12:55pm-02:15pm
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| Room Location | CARP25 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1883 This course examines the life, personality, career, and military achievements of Alexander the Great, as well as the extraordinary reception of his legacy in antiquity and through modern times. It uses historical, archaeological and art-historical evidence to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of Alexander’s cultural background and examines the real and imaginary features of his life and afterlife as they developed in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and succeeding periods in both Europe and Asia. Special attention is also placed on the appeal that Alexander’s life and achievements have generated and continue to retain in modern popular visual culture as evidenced from documentary films and motion pictures. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Attentive; Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 22; 5 spaces reserved for Freshmen. If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors), Permission from instructor |
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