Humanities Seminars Program - Where the Humanities Come From---Greece in the Fifth Century BCE from the bacchae Watch Video
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Description: This course will cover the rich and seminal history and literature of fifth-century Greece; the most creative and productive period in all human history. Our course will particularly focus on Athens, the world's first democracy, from which most of the liberal arts trace their origins.n nThese amazing developments began with the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, the clash between democratic Athens and the vast invading Persian Empire. From there we will trace how the victorious Athenians built up th
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