An interdisciplinary course that follows changes in the Western worldview over the centuries and how that worldview influenced developments in art, literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, science, and even mathematics, from ancient Greece all the way down to today. Students will read authors like Aristotle, Seneca, Augustine, Descartes, etc., paying particular attention to the circumstances in which those authors lived, the problems they sought to solve, and the contributions of those solutions as they reverberated through the centuries. Readings will be selected and provided by the instructor.