| Course ID: | CLAS 4380/6380. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Death: Antiquity and Its Legacy |
Course
Description: | An examination of funerals, disposal, and the commemoration of
the dead in ancient Greece and Italy and the legacy of ancient
death in the modern era from Medieval to contemporary practices.
Emphasis is placed on death in the urban and suburban landscape
and the changing periphery of the dead. |
| Oasis Title: | Death Antiquity and Its Legacy |
| Prerequisite: | CLAS 1000 or CLAS 1000E or CLAS 1000H or CLAS 1010 or CLAS 1010E or CLAS 1010H or CLAS 1020 or CLAS 1020E or CLAS 1020H or CLAS 3000 or CLAS 3010 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015E or CLAS 3030 or CLAS 3040 or CLAS3050 or permission of department |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To understand the cultural contexts of death in ancient Greece
and Italy from funerary rituals, burials/cremations, and
commemoration and their legacy on modern multicultural funerary
and commemorative rituals and practices. |
| Topical Outline: | Students will begin with an examination of funerary ritual in
the Bronze Age and trace developments of ritual, burial, and
commemoration through various periods in Greek and Roman history
(Republic to Empire) to the early Christian period. Topics on
the legacy of ancient death will focus on the survival of
ancient monuments and cemeteries, Neoclassicism, modern
cremation movement and contemporary multicultural disposal and
commemorative rituals and practices. |