Classical Greek literature

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Classical Greek literature (Q720): The study of literature originally written in Classical Greek. Includes the use of techniques of literary analysis and interpretation.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATLANTIS: PLATO'S IDEAL STATE	The text book for the course is Kershaw, S.P., A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State, London: Robinson, 2016. It can be...	Plato, Plato's 'Critias', Plato's 'Kritias', Plato's 'Timaeus', Plato's 'Timaios', Ancient Greek, Ancient history, Greek culture, Atlantis, Kershaw	view
ATLANTIS AND THE NATIONS	"The Athens and Atlantis of ancient lore represent the two faces of Plato’s own Athens. The former, the old primordial Athens, is what Plato would...	Atlantis, Plato, Plato's 'Kritias', Plato's 'Timaeus', Plato's 'Timaios', Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience	view
ERYTHEIA: THE 'RED LAND'	Erytheia, the sea-circled mythical ‘Red Land’ located out in the far west beyond the mighty earth-encircling river Oceanus, occassionally excites...	Atlantis, Erytheia, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience	view
HELIKE (HELICE), 373 BCE	Helice, a city on the Corinthian Gulf, was destroyed by a tsunami in 373 BC. This could have inspired Plato’s thinking regarding his Atlantis...	Helice, Helike, Plato, Atlantis, Earthquakes, Tsunami	view
HELIKE PROJECT	Helice, a city on the Corinthian Gulf, was destroyed by a tsunami in 373 BC. This could have inspired Plato’s thinking regarding his Atlantis...	Helike, Helice, Atlantis, Plato, Strabo, Earthquakes, Tsunami	view
HERODOTUS ON BABYLON	Herodotus' History includes a memorable description of the city of Babylon, which may have had a considerable influence on Plato's...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Timaeus, Critias, Babylon, Ancient Greek	view
HERODOTUS ON ECBATANA	One major city in the Persian Empire that Herodotus describes, and which might have had a bearing on Plato’s description of Atlantis-ville, was...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Ecbatana, Ancient Greek, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient history	view
HERODOTUS ON EGYPT	The Greek historian Herodotus, produced a wonderfully engaging account of his historia (= ‘inquiry’) into the origins and events of...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Egypt, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient Greek, Ancient history	view
HOMER, CALYPSO, OGYGIA AND ATLANTIS	Homer’s Odyssey takes us through the fabulous world of Odysseus’ travels, and the first time we encounter him at first hand he is on...	Atlantis, Ogygia, Homer, Odyssey, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Plato	view
HYPERBOREA, HYPERBOREANS AND ATLANTIS	Up in the Greek mythological north we find Hyperborea, ‘the Land Beyond the North Wind’, inhabited by the Hyperboreans - a blessed race who spent...	Atlantis, Hyperborea, Hyperboreans, myth, Archaeology, Mythical lands, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Greek Myth, Plato	view

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