"From Love-Gifts to Beasts: Animals in Antiquity" - Freshman Seminar

Instructors

• Claudia Zatta - 847/467-6976 - Kresge Hall 1-400

Meeting Info

• University Library 3322 - MoWe 3:30PM - 4:50PM

• Overview of class

  Protagonists of myths, endearing pets and love tokens, objects of the hunt, and bridges to the unknown future and the remote gods: animals have played the most versatile and diverse roles in Antiquity. Animals are symbols of heroism for Homer, vehicles of economic capital in Hesiod, creatures of a mythical time for Plato, and political beings akin to humans in Aristotle. This course explores the rich literature about animals in the Greek and Roman world, focusing on the relationship between men and animals and how it developed over time. This course not only addresses how the ancients conceived of the life, identity and function of animals, but it also shows how their notion of the animal ultimately reflected their conception of the human.

• Teaching Method

  discussion, students' presentations, occasional short lectures and visual material (images, videos, films)

• Evaluation Method

  Class discussion based on readings; presentations; short papers; final presentation; final paper

• Class Materials (Required)

  READING LIST
  
  Homer, Iliad, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140275363
  Homer, Odyssey, Penguin Classics, ISBN 010268863
  Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 019953831X
  Aesop, The Complete Fables, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140446494
  Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140443339
  Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140441123
  Aristophanes, Birds and Other Plays, Oxford World's Classics, ISBN 0199555672
  Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Oxford University Press, 0199540551
  Ovid, Metamorphoses, WW Norton & Company, ISBN 039332642X
  Aristotle, History of Animals, University of Toronto Libraries, ASIN B00459D0QK
  Xenophon and Arrian on Hunting, Aris and Phillips, ISBN 0856687065
  
  
  Additional readings will be provided by instructor.

• Class Attributes

  No P/N option for this section
  
  

• Enrollment Requirements

  Enrollment Requirements: Reserved for Freshmen and Sophomores

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