{"id":1379,"date":"2015-06-15T08:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southasia.washington.edu\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2016-05-26T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:26:43","slug":"autumn-class-literature-and-culture-of-ancient-india-love-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/autumn-class-literature-and-culture-of-ancient-india-love-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Class: Literature and Culture of Ancient India: Love and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nLiterature and Culture of Ancient India: Love and War<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3680 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/ravi_varma_ShakuntalaMenaka-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Love and War\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/ravi_varma_ShakuntalaMenaka-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/ravi_varma_ShakuntalaMenaka-375x553.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/ravi_varma_ShakuntalaMenaka.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nASIAN 203<br \/>\nAutumn Quarter 2015<br \/>\nMW 12:30-2:20pm<br \/>\nCDH \u00a0105<\/p>\n<p>The topic of this course is the literature and culture of ancient and classical India (South Asia). \u00a0It covers the period from the middle of the second millennium BCE. through the end of the first millennium CE. \u00a0 During the course some of the most influential works of Indian tradition and world civilization will be read and discussed in their cultural context, with an eye especially to how these texts are interpreted and used in contemporary religion and politics. These include the Rigveda, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita, poetic and dramatic works by Kalidasa, the Pa\u00f1catantra, and early South Indian lyric poetry. \u00a0Although the works covered in the course were originally composed in Sanskrit or Tamil, they will be read in English translation. 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