The recovery of Ancient Greek and Latin texts from the 1300s onwards initiated a broad cultural revival in the arts, literature, sciences, and philosophy. While the period when these texts were most actively recovered and published is known as the Renaissance, classicism would remain the dominant cultural style in Europe for centuries to come. This course explores "the Classical Age" from the late sixteenth to the late nineteenth century, and looks at the different, sometimes contradictory ways that European writers read and redeployed the classical past.
3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
The recovery of Ancient Greek and Latin texts from the 1300s onwards initiated a broad cultural revival in the arts, literature, sciences, and philosophy. While the period when these texts were most actively recovered and published is known as the Renaissance, classicism would remain the dominant cultural style in Europe for centuries to come. This course explores "the Classical Age" from the late sixteenth to the late nineteenth century, and looks at the different, sometimes contradictory ways that European writers read and redeployed the classical past.
Offered in Spring 2027 at Stanford University.