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Emily Albu
Associate Professor, Classics
Email: emalbu@ucdavis.edu |
Emily Albu, associate professor of Classics, teaches CLA 102 Film and the Classical World. Her article on the 2000 blockbuster, Gladiator ("Gladiator at the Millennium") will appear in Celluloid Classics, a special issue of the journal Arethusa.
CLA 102 (which we hope to offer in 2008-09): Film and the Classical World (4)
Lecture - 3 hours; film viewing - 2.5 hours.
Prerequisite: any Classics course except 30 or 31. The Classical World as portrayed in films. Viewings and
discussions of modern versions of ancient dramas, modern dramas set in the Ancient Mediterranean world, and films
imbued with classical themes and allusions. Supplementary readings in ancient literature and mythology.
GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.