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Ancient Studies Institute The plan of these courses is to present some subjects in their original non-English language. The student provides some expertise in the discipline, and the teacher a knowledge of the language. DEPARTMENTAL COURSES IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGES Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine --Hippocrates. Oath, etc. --Galen (2nd c. A.D.). On the Natural Faculties. --Celsus. De medicina (published sometime during Tiberius's reign (A.D. 14-37). --Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica . Architecture --Vitruvius. De architectura. Botany/Agriculture --Theophrastus (372/369-288/285 B.C.). Inquiry into Plants. --Columella. De re rustica and De arboribus. --Pliny. Naturalis historia (c. A.D. 77). --Linnaeus (1707-1778). Species plantarum. Geography --Strabo (c. 63 B.C.-c. A.D. 21). Geography. --Pliny. Naturalis historia (c. A.D. 77). Grammar --Dionysius Thrax . Art of Grammar; c. 100 B.C., an epitome of grammar. --Apollonius Dyscolus (2nd c. A.D.). Syntax (parts of speech). --Priscian (6th c. A.D). Institutiones grammaticae. On parts of speech and syntax. History --Herodotus. Selections from his Histories. --Thucydides. Selections from History of the Peloponnesian War. Born around 460 B.C., the author greatly advanced historical writing. --Xenophon. Anabasis (Journey Up-Country), bk. 1. Xenophon (born around 430 B.C.) recounts his retreat through Asia Minor with Greek mercenaries. --Plutarch. Lives. --Latin Biography: Nepos's Atticus; Suetonius's Caligula. --Augustus. Res Gestae. Accomplishments of Emperor Augustus (died A.D. 14) as he sought to present them. --Livy. Ab urbe condita. --Nepos. De viris inlustribus. --Sallust. Catalina and Jugurtha. --Caesar. De bello Gallico and De bello civili --Tacitus. Agricola, Annales, Germania, Historiae. --Suetonius. De vita caesarum.; De viris illustribus. --Scriptores Historiae Augustae. --Cassius Dio. Romaika (History of Rome). --Lactantius. De mortibus persecutorum. --Ammianus Marcellinus. Rerum gestarum libri xxxi. --Augustine. Confessiones Mathematics --Euclid. Elements. --Archimedes. Measurement of the Circle, etc. --Diophantus (fl. c. A.D. 250). Arithmetica--13 bks, 6 extant. Diophantus is said to have invented algebra. Philosophy --Plato. Apology. --Plato. Selected passages from his dialogs: Protagoras, Phaedo, Gorgias. --Aristotle. Metaphysics, etc. --Diogenes Laertius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers --Seneca (died A.D. 65). Epistulae morales, etc. --Otium, Labor, Fama. Selections from Martial, Pliny, and Cicero on leisure versus work and duty. --Cicero. De Officiis: Selections. This course focuses on the influence of Cicero on the U.S. Declaration of Independence. --Cicero. Selections from Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), tracing a soul's path into an afterlife. --Lucretius. Selections from his poem De rerum natura (on the nature of things), a presentation of the atomic theory and a universe based on natural law. -- Suarez. Disputationes metaphysicae. --Descartes. Meditationes de prima philosophia, Discourse de la Methode. Physics --Copernicus. De revolutionibus. --Newton. Principia. Religion --Bhagavad-Gita (Sung by the Lord). Seminal work in the Indian tradition. --Upanishads. --Bible. --Hesiod. Theogony; Works and Days. --The Homeric Hymns. --Kore Kosmou (a Hermetic text, from between A.D. 100-300, describing creation, etc.). --Ovid. Metamorphoses. --Witches. Selections on witchcraft from Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius. --Passages from Latin authors on Roman Religion. --Pelagius. "Epistula ad Demitriadem," "Libellus Fidei ad Innocentium Papam." --Augustine. De civitate dei. --Aquinas. Summa contra gentiles, etc. |