printer friendly pageHISTORY 12: Medicine and Disease in the Ancient World
(Same as
HISTORY 112. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 112.) This course explores medicine and disease through case studies from civilizations of the ancient world such as Egypt, Greece, and Peru. We will discuss how these cultures conceptualized disease, and in turn, how they contended with illnesses. Lectures will address different forms of illness through medical texts, art, and human remains. Weekly discussion will incorporate evidence from these sources to explore both their potential and their limitations.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
HISTORY 12N: The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction
Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus'
Annals, Suetonius'
Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves'
I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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