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Finding God: Augustine and Apuleius
LATIN 139

Jointly Offered with: Harvard Divinity School as HDS 1510

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Description

This course on imperial and late antique prose authors will examine the religious conversion narratives of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Augustine’s Confessions. In Apuleius (Met. 11), Lucius converts to Isis, while Augustine narrates his conversion to Christianity (Conf. 6–8). Both are stories of deep religious experience made compelling by their daring literary, rhetorical, and philosophical qualities. We will complement our Latin texts by reading modern and contemporary scholarship on religious experience and the phenomenon of conversion.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Department Classics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Latin
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Arts and Humanities
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students