Category Archives: HONS 1101: Colloquium on the Ancient World

Course Description

The world we live in has been decisively shaped by ideas, images, and modes of thought that developed in several parts of the world in the millennium before the beginning of the Common Era. The heritage of Moses, Homer, Confucius, Laozi, Isaiah, the Hindu sages, Gautama Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Vergil, Jesus, John, Paul, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Plotinus continue to shape our world; for they were key figures in civilizations that subsequent generations have regarded as “classical” — Continue Reading…