GRK 295
Spring 2027
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Is legal punishment a sublimation of revenge? Should violent revenge ever be endorsed or morally justified? Are there (equal) rights to revenge or to protection from it? What might create empathy with acts and actors of unprecedented violence? In this course we will address these questions by moving across genres in the Classical period, from philosophy (prose) to tragedy (poetry): Plato's Crito has Socrates argue about civil (dis)obedience, even in cases of wrongful or unjust conviction; Euripides' Hecuba dramatizes institutional failures and post-war corruption that result in unparalleled dehumanizing cruelty. They both test assumptions and ideas about the power of democracies to cultivate lawfulness and collective welfare.
The course is suitable for students at the intermediate and advanced level of Greek. |
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Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CLST |
| Course Format: Language | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
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