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Grade 12 Classical Civilization (LVV4U)

The Ontario Grade 12 course Classical Civilization, code LVV4U, has five strands: Critical Thinking and Literacy Skills, Mythology and Literature, History and Geography, Philosophy and Religion, and Material Culture. The museum maps parts of strands A, C, D and E only, through the Arabic reception of Greek learning.

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Strand A: Critical Thinking and Literacy Skills

Research, interpretation, communication and connections; the museum maps one lesson (A1.3, A2.2), on weighing what a source says.

  1. Whose account is it? How to weigh what a source says when two accounts of one book differ and a well-known story rests on one author (A1.3, A2.2). ObjectStoryScholar

Strand C: History and Geography

The history and geography of the classical world and what followed from them; the museum maps two lessons (C1.1, C4.1).

  1. When does the era begin? How a dating system named for Alexander was traced to its start, and where that start falls among the parts of the Greek world after him (C1.1). Story
  2. Rome's reach into Arabia What al-Mubarakpuri says the Roman power, the Byzantine empire, did to the trade and the rulers of the Arab lands, as one case of Rome shaping other societies (C4.1). Story

Strand D: Philosophy and Religion

Classical philosophy, scientific inquiry and religion, and their reach; the museum maps three lessons (D1.1, D1.2, D4.1, D4.2).

  1. From Socrates to Aristotle The line of teachers and pupils that an Arabic bibliographer draws from Socrates through Plato to Aristotle (D1.1). Scholar × 3
  2. Geometry, the sphere and the heavens Euclid, Archimedes and Ptolemy as Arabic sources describe them and their books (D1.2). Scholar × 3
  3. Greek books in Arabic hands How Greek learning reached Arabic readers, the house that gathered it in Baghdad, and how some of them read Aristotle (D4.1, D4.2). PlaceScholar × 2

Strand E: Material Culture

Archaeology, material remains and what they show; the museum maps one lesson (E4.1), on a Greek coin type in Arabia.

  1. A Greek coin in Arabia How an Arabian kingdom struck its coins on a Greek model, and what the coin carried with it (E4.1). Object

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