This course explores the religions of ancient Greece and Rome from their earliest beginnings to the end of paganism and emergence of Christianity. We study evidence of ancient sacrifices and prayers, temples, and ritual personnel in order to understand the religious practices and preferences of Greeks and Romans in their own terms and in the wider contemporary social and cultural context. While the course follows a broadly chronological outline, individual lectures concentrate on specific themes, such as magic and divination, conversion, or attitudes to new cults.
This course provides the religious context in which Christianity arose in the Roman Empire.
This course provides the wider religious and cultural context of the early Christian movement.
The course includes readings from the Bible as well as other religious texts from antiquity.
The course increases the awareness and understanding of the diversity of religious beliefs and practices as they compare and contrast to Christianity.
This course is focused on the cultural and historical context of the Roman world.
The course takes into consideration different ethnic and religious groups in the Roman Empire and their respective beliefs and practices
The course focuses on the diversity of religions in antiquity and build analogues to our present reality of many religious beliefs and practices.
The course considers different religious experiences and practices in antiquity as they compare to today.
