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Along with Herodotus - hailed here as "a marker set down against the oblivion with which time threatens all human deeds" - and Thucydides, the earliest exponent of realpolitik, Burrow devotes the first third of his book to a long line of Greco-Roman historians. He goes on to discuss "the radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account...
...architecture, Aboriginal art is its own wildly independent spirit. In this way, the founder of Sotheby's Aboriginal art department in Australia, Tim Klingender, likens its appeal to that of world music. "I don't think it is part of the continuing tradition of Western art which begins in Greco-Roman times and goes through the Renaissance and ultimately terminates in Postmodernism," says Klingender. "It has cross-cultural appeal. It has an aesthetic which relates to Modernism at times, yet it is infused with a language from a most ancient and diverse culture...
...than others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive material—and many want such an exposure. According to the CUE Guide, of the 143 students who enrolled in History 10a last year, 93 of them...
TIME's comment that Maimonides was a "philosopher who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western" ignores Maimonides' own description of himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my true love, the wife of my youth. The other cultures are but women to serve me and cast grace on my wife . . . Regrettably, they distract me from my only life-mate, the Torah." By his own declaration, Maimonides was purely Jewish...
History 20a, Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity. I know what you’re thinking; I didn’t expect ancient philosophy had any bearing on contemporary history before I took the course either. But the ideas of Plato and Aristotle still loom large in the Western intellectual tradition. You can’t really understand anything from the categorical imperative to the Council of Trent without knowing Plato and Aristotle. Besides, this class is great for cocktail parties, as long as you don’t mind being that guy who quotes both Epicurus and Zeno...