Ancient world
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Fate and Virtue
In this course—one of three in the Humanities foundation series—we will read one of the greatest poems ever written (Homer’s Iliad), excerpts from two writers who can lay claim to have created the discipline of…
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Honors College History: The Ancient World
In this course, we will explore the origins of civilization from the early human societies in the Near East to the culture of Europe in the early middle ages. We will examine evolution within European…
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Scholarship: War, Conflict, and History
War has long played a central role in the human experience and the scholarship of history; indeed, it might be said that the first “scientific historian” was the Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the History…