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University to Offer New Roman Courses

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Two new courses will be offered by the University next term on the Roman Empire. Both will deal with its political and cultural history in the East from 300 to 600 A.D.

One course will be held as a seminar by the Classics department for graduates, while the History department will supervise the undergraduate counterpart. The departments decided to include these courses in their programs when Granville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature, now at the University's Dunbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center disclosed that he was free to teach here.

Lectures on the cultural and intellectual life of the Eastern Empire up to Justinian, supplemented by literary texts in English will be featured in the undergraduate program. Studies of archeological sites and art are to be included. The seminar group will do work on the sources of this culture and graduates planning to take the spring course must have a reading knowledge of Greek.

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