GREK 2000E S01 [CRN: 25936]
This course examines broadly the inter-related concepts of literacy, orality, and memory and more specifically considers how the keeping of records, especially inscribed texts, both reflects and aids in our construction of those very same concepts. Students will work in epigraphical corpora of different cities, of Athens and elsewhere. Topics include: the symbiotic relationship of literacy and orality; the epigraphic habit and its relationship to democracy and oligarchy in different Greek cities; the way documents and the monuments on which they are inscribed memorialize the past; the impact of writing on social institutions, the emergence and function of archives.
- Term
- Spring 2013
- Credit Hours
- 1.0
- Maximum Enrollment
- 40
- Primary Instructor
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- Meetings
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4:00 pm - 6:20 pm Thu - from Jan 23, 2013 to May 17, 2013
- Exam Group Code
- 15 (May 15, 2013 9:00am)
