BASC61212 - Alumni Sequence: The Romans II
Course Description
The Year Two Winter Seminar will explore Roman poetry, with themes of love and nature intertwining with ideas of aesthetics, passion, morality, and violence. The Tutorial takes a look at some ancient texts on science that strongly influenced later approaches, and concludes with Francis Bacon who marks a major transition between ancient and modern science.
Course Outline
Winter Quarter Reading List
Catullus, The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition, University of California Press , ISBN 978-0520253865
Virgil, The Eclogues, The Georgics , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199554096
Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199555277
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Harcourt Brace, ISBN 978-0156001267
Various, Hippocratic Writings, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0140444513
Vitruvius , On Architecture, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0141441689
Pliny the Elder , Natural History: A Selection, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0140444131
Galen , On The Natural Faculties , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 978-1533439895
Bacon, The Great Instauration and Novum Organum , Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 978-1162565026
Notes
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