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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | CSTSB226001 |
Course Title | Ecology of the Roman World |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Studies |
Instructor | Devereaux,Jennifer |
Times and Days | MTh 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | OL110 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1539 In this course, we will study Roman attitudes toward the natural world, reconstructing the environment in which Roman urban centers flourished. While investigating the attitudes towards the environment that the Romans expressed through their myths, poetry, philosophy, and material culture, students will gain exposure to perspectives and methods from a variety of disciplines including literary studies, archaeology and art history, anthropology, social psychology, and 4E cognition. Through readings by authors such as Cato, Varro, Columella, Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Pliny and Seneca, we will discuss agriculture and pre-industrial economies, social (re)evolution, disease and famine, resource exploitation, and human interaction with the landscape through engineering. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of how the Romans interacted with and explained the world around them (and how they used that world to explain themselves), students will a) become familiar with the major periods and events of Roman history and be able to contextualize attitudes towards nature and the environment within those periods; b) become familiar with the styles of literature and material arts during major periods of Roman history, and c) develop skills necessary for reading primary texts (literary, philosophical, and historical) as documents representing the intellectual history of the Roman world. No previous knowledge of the ancient world is required. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); Enrollment Cap: 40 |
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