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TEXTS<br />
9 & CONTEXTS<br />
CLASSICS<br />
Divine Trilogies: the Qur’an and the<br />
Aeneid<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
Hellenistic Philosophy<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Philosophy)<br />
Interfaith Dialogues: Justin’s<br />
Dialogue with Trypho and Halevi’s<br />
Book <strong>of</strong> the Khazars<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
The Talmud<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
The Twelve Caesars<br />
(listed under Humanities/Texts &<br />
Contexts/History)<br />
HISTORY<br />
Colette—The Invention <strong>of</strong> the Modern<br />
Woman<br />
(listed under Humanities/Texts &<br />
Contexts/Literature)<br />
Empires and the Art <strong>of</strong> the Ancient<br />
Silk Roads<br />
(listed under Humanities/World in<br />
Focus/Oriental Institute)<br />
Freedom Charters<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Political Science)<br />
Hellenistic Philosophy<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Philosophy)<br />
Islamic Art & Architecture<br />
(listed under Humanities/Arts/Art<br />
& Art History)<br />
Letters from Prison<br />
(listed under Humanities/Texts &<br />
Contexts/Literature)<br />
Matters <strong>of</strong> Life, Death, and Afterlife:<br />
Burial Customs and Beliefs in the<br />
Ancient Middle East<br />
(listed under Humanities/World in<br />
Focus/Oriental Institute)<br />
Modern India: Religion, Culture,<br />
Politics<br />
(listed under Humanities/World in<br />
Focus/Global <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
Monuments <strong>of</strong> Egypt: The Pyramids<br />
(listed under Humanities/World in<br />
Focus/Oriental Institute)<br />
Renaissance Philosophy: Discovering<br />
Antiquity, Foreshadowing<br />
Modernity<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Philosophy)<br />
The Problems <strong>of</strong> Secularism<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
Women in Ancient Egypt<br />
(listed under Humanities/World in<br />
Focus/Oriental Institute)<br />
What Jane Austen Read—“House<br />
Beautiful”: The Great Country Manor<br />
in British Literature<br />
(listed under Humanities/Texts &<br />
Contexts/Literature)<br />
The Twelve Caesars<br />
In this class, we will take a look<br />
at the beginnings <strong>of</strong> the Roman<br />
Empire as told by the historian<br />
Suetonius. In his book The Twelve<br />
Caesars, Suetonius examines the<br />
lives and times <strong>of</strong> these amazing and<br />
sometimes bizarre rulers, beginning<br />
with Julius Caesar and ending with<br />
Domitian. We will explore the idea<br />
<strong>of</strong> the empire, examine the emperors<br />
as types and as people, and discuss<br />
questions such as: Can one be a bad<br />
person but a good ruler? How about<br />
the other way around? What is the<br />
best form <strong>of</strong> government? Is it worth<br />
losing freedom to gain security?<br />
Zoë Eisenman<br />
See bio under Hellenistic Philosophy.<br />
Course Code BPUTTC<br />
Section 12U1<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Gleacher Center<br />
$250 Early registration ends June 13<br />
$280 Regular registration<br />
Thursdays<br />
June 21–July 26<br />
10 am–1:15 pm<br />
Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 18<br />
Humanities<br />
LITERATURE<br />
Basic Program Spring Weekend<br />
Study Retreat: Anna Karenina<br />
(listed under Basic Program)<br />
Divine Trilogies: the Qur’an and the<br />
Aeneid<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
First Friday Lecture Series<br />
(listed under Basic Program)<br />
Interfaith Dialogues: Justin’s<br />
Dialogue with Trypho and Halevi’s<br />
Book <strong>of</strong> the Khazars<br />
(listed under Humanities/Ideas &<br />
Beliefs/Religious <strong>Studies</strong>)<br />
The Twelve Caesars<br />
(listed under Humanities/Texts &<br />
Contexts/History)<br />
Works <strong>of</strong> the Mind Lecture Series<br />
(listed under Basic Program)<br />
Spring 2012<br />
Balzac<br />
Famous as a chronicler <strong>of</strong> human<br />
society, folly and vice, Balzac<br />
delights readers and has inspired<br />
novelists from Dickens and<br />
Dostoyevsky to Flaubert and<br />
Faulkner. This course provides an<br />
introduction to his vast Human<br />
Comedy cycle, starting with The<br />
Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin).<br />
The novel follows Raphael de<br />
Valentin, who finds a magic skin<br />
that can grant its owner his every<br />
wish. Balzac’s fable about the gods<br />
<strong>of</strong> excess and greed is a powerful<br />
indictment <strong>of</strong> money, desire, and<br />
consumption and can be read as<br />
a fitting allegory for present-day<br />
accounts <strong>of</strong> excess, corruption and<br />
unbridled power.<br />
Irina Ruvinsky<br />
Ms. Ruvinsky received her PhD in<br />
philosophy from the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Chicago. She studied philosophy and<br />
French literature at the Sorbonne<br />
and the Ecole Normale Supérieure<br />
in Paris. She currently teaches at<br />
the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> the Art Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Chicago.<br />
Texts & Contexts<br />
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