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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | CSTSB232001 |
Course Title | Relating (to) the gods |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Studies |
Instructor | Romano,Carman |
Times and Days | TTh 02:25pm-03:45pm
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Room Location | OL110 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2250 How did ancient Greeks and Romans imagine their gods? How did they communicate with them? And what, exactly, happened when the gods talked back? In this course, we will grapple with questions of why and how ancient people interacted with what anthropologists call “Invisible Others”: those not always perceptible beings with whom human beings nonetheless engage. To do so, we will be guided by a broad range of Greek and Latin material in translation, including but not limited to magical texts, prayers, hymns, philosophical discourse, and mythic narratives that depict and/or invite the often disastrous, sometimes miraculous, and always fascinating interaction between mortal and deity. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC); |
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