CLA 343 Recreating Ancient Athens
Students will study, perform, and re-enact central features of everyday life in Classical Athens, including athletic competition, comic and tragic theatre, dinner parties, philosophical debates, and funeral ceremonies. Primary sources will include Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes’ Frogs, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and excerpts from Thucydides, Aristotle, and Lucretius. We will travel to Nashville to visit art collections and the Parthenon.
Cross Listed Courses
HIS 383.