LATN 20202 - Race and Ethnicity in the Roman Empire

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

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RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE This course investigates race and ethnicity in the Roman literature and its later reception. What we mean by race today does not easily map onto ancient Rome. Yet modern ideas of race have profoundly influenced the reception of Roman texts. How did Romans understand human difference? How do their understandings compare to our own? How have later scholars, political groups, and contemporary audiences approached race in the Roman world? And what have been the consequences of these approaches? This course examines such questions through close readings of Latin texts and the study of the role of race in their reception. [AH, D]