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About the course: In this course, the culture of the ancient Greeks — art, literature, history, philosophy, and religion — is studied critically through the lens of various narratives that see the Greeks as the originators of western culture, such as the invention of the alphabet, the beginnings of (western) ideas of the writing of history, the (so-called) perfection of classical architecture and sculpture, the origins of (western) drama, the origins of (western) philosophy.
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About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017).
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The archaic funerary statue pictured above is the Phrasikleia Kore, marble with traces of color, created by the artist Aristion of Paros. At left the statue is pictured as found; on right, with the original colors restored. Attic, 550-530 BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Athens, cat. nr. 4889.