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ASE Summer Schools in Bath
June 7 - July 13, 2025
Limited places are available on each course to preserve the small, interactive class experience, and places will be allocated to suitably qualified applicants on a first-come-first-served basis.
The deadline for initial applications is February 15, 2025.
The Romans in Britain
This course investigates both the impact of the Roman invasion upon Britain and also the role and function of Britain within the wider Roman empire.
Gods, Heroes, and Monsters in Western Mythologies
Mythology, with its various interactions among gods, mortals, and monsters, often expresses a culture’s most fundamental beliefs about the world and what it means to be human. This course examines several different mythological systems and asks how the cultures that developed these systems constructed the world, particularly as they wrestled with man’s place in it, resting as it does, uncomfortably, somewhere between the realms of the immortal and the bestial or monstrous. Students will undertake close readings (in English) and participate in discussions of extensive selections from the following epics:
Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian), the Iliad and Odyssey (Greek), the Táin (Irish), Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon), and the Poetic Edda (Norse).