Course Catalog - 2009-2010

     

CLAS 415 - ART AND EMPIRE: ATHENS & ROME

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: ATHENS & ROME
Department: Classical Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Seminar that examines the art and architecture of two of antiquity's greatest empires: Athens and Rome. Issues to be addressed include the formation of these cities as imperial capitals, the representation of the conquered, and the roles of Pericles and Augustus in forming imperial ideology. Cross-list: HART 415.