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College Catalog 2014-2015 
    
College Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CLAS 135 - India and Rome

Cross-Listed as RELI 135 
This course is taught jointly between the department of Religious Studies and the department of Classics, by a specialist in the Roman East and a specialist in classical India. We will start on either side of this world, with Alexander the Great and Ashoka, exploring the relationship between empire and religion from Rome to India in the world’s crossroads for the thousand years between Alexander and the rise of Islam. Alternate years. (4 Credits)