The course focuses on the ancient Greek experience of health and healing from the Archaic through the Hellenistic era, as presented in a number of key texts and in the material or archaeological record. A central project will be discovering and understanding the contemporaneous emergence and continued success of both Hippocratic medicine and Asclepian religion/cult, […]
Roman rule came as a shock to Greece, but Greek culture was resilient, and Greek literature continued to thrive. Greek authors diagnosed how Rome won, while they continued to claim intellectual leadership, and eventually and increasingly came to view themselves as co-regents of empire. Although neglected in comparison with classical literature, the Greek literature of […]
Rediscovering Roman Greece: The phrase “Greco-Roman civilization” implies that these two empires make up one whole. Did the Romans indeed just copy the Greeks, giving new names to old gods? Did they conquer and assimilate? Did the emperors convince the Greeks they were gods themselves? Using archaeological sites in Athens (such as the Roman Agora, […]
Using the framework of “planetary boundaries” and tipping points of potentially irreversible damage presented in the first documentary film entitled Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet, this course presents climate science as well as climate solutions both from a global environmental or planetary perspective as well as from an individual and societal public and […]
In the last quarter-century, the discipline of archaeology has undergone a dramatic transformation. While traditional practices such as excavating ancient sites and documenting and analyzing ancient art and architecture remain integral to the field, modern archaeology has drastically expanded its scope. Today archaeology encompasses a wide range of topics, from decenterization of academic discourse to […]
