| Title: | Ancient and American Lessons |
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| Course Section Number: | CLA-111-02 |
| Department: | Classics |
| Description: | CLA-111-02 = PSC-230-03 Leading Effectively: Ancient and American Lessons. Pericles, Alexander the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar - these names have lived on as powerful reminders of the debt western civilization owes to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Despite shifts in historical approach, we continue to be fascinated by the "great man" and his impact on the events that have been crucial to the development of our own culture. Even popular media appreciate the attraction, with movies like Spartacus, Alexander, and multiple episodes of the History Channel. One of our chief sources of knowledge about important men of antiquity is Plutarch, a Greek writer living in the Roman Empire (A.D. 46-120). He composed a series of biographies known as the Parallel Lives, in which he pairs a Greek and Roman leader who he thinks are in some way connected. As Plutarch himself says at the beginning of his life of Alexander, his main concern is not so much historical as ethical. He wants to present to readers models of great-hearted men for imitation in their own lives, and for this reason Plutarch's biographies have had a great influence on the personal formation of the educated classes in European and American history. Ralph Waldo Emerson called Plutarch's Lives "a bible for heroes", and before him they were read by the American Founding Fathers, who discovered in these texts many ethical concepts that were to inform their ideas about the creation of a free republic. With a work of secondary scholarship, The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment by C.J. Richard, we will examine this topic in detail. 0.5 credits (half-semester; choose to take it first half or second half of semester) |
| Credits: | 0.50 |
| Start Date: | March 11, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
03/12/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Detchon, Room 109
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| Faculty: | Kubiak, David |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 15 |
| Calculated Course Status: | CLOSED |
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