| CLA212/HUM212
- Classical Mythology |
| An
introduction to the classical myths in their cultural context
and in their wider application to human concerns (such as creation,
sex and gender, identity, transformation, and death). The course
will offer a who's who of the ancient imaginative world, study
the main ancient sources and introduce methods of modern myth
analysis. Myths in ancient and modern art are presented through
slide presentations. |
| Professor
Andrew Feldherr |
Lecture:
11:00-11:50am TTh
Frist 302
Precept 01: 1:30-2:20pm Wednesday EPyne
239
Precept 02: 2:30-3:20pm Wednesday EPyne
239
Precept 03: 10:00-10:50am Thursday
Chanc 105
Precept 03A: 10:00-10:50am Thursday Chanc
103
Precept 04: 1:30-2:20pm Thursday
EPyne 023
Precept 05: 2:30-3:20pm Thursday
EPyne 023
Precept 06: 3:30-4:20pm Thursday
EPyne 023 |
|
| CLA215
- The Literature of the Romans |
| An
introduction to the literature of the Romans, covering major
genres of particular importance for the later European literary
tradition -- historiography, epic, comedy, love poetry, and tragedy.
The course will equip students with a basic idea of the main
lines of Roman literary history, while enabling them to begin
setting their reading of later European literature against an
informed background of understanding. |
| Professor
Denis Feeney |
Lecture
L01 : 2:30-3:20 pm MW
McCosh 60
Precept P01 : TBA
Precept P02: 10:00-10:50am Monday Chanc
103
Precept P93: 11:00-11:50am Monday Chanc
103
Precept P04: 3:30-4:20pm Wednesday McCosh
30 |
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| CLA216/HIS216
- Archaic and Classical Greece |
| The
social, political, and cultural history of ancient Greece from
ca.750 B.C. through the time of the Peloponnesian War (404
B.C.). Special attention is paid to the emergence of the distinctively
Greek form of political organization, the city state, and to
democracy, imperialism, social practices, and cultural developments.
Emphasis is placed on study of the ancient sources, methods
of source analysis, and historical reasoning. |
| Professor
Michael Flower |
Lecture:
11:00-11:50am MW
McCosh 28
Precept 01: 1:30-2:20pm Wednesday Chanc
105
Precept 02: 2:30-3:20pm Wednesday Chanc
105
Precept 03: 3:30-4:20pm Wednesday Chanc
105
Precept 03A: 3:30-4:20pm W(Sophs Only)EPyne 023
Precept 04: 1:30-2:20pm Thursday
EPyne 027
Precept 05: 2:30-3:20pm Thursday
EPyne 027 |
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| CLA325/HIS329
- Roman Law |
| Objectives
are to understand the basic principles of a major system of civil
law, to trace the beginnings of these principles in
the society that produced them, and to make some comparison
between Roman and modern Common Law. |
| Professor
Edward Champlin |
Lecture:
2:30-3:20 MW
McCosh 28
Precept: TBA |
|
| CLA475
- Introduction to Sanskrit |
| This
class teaches the fundamentals of Sanskrit grammar, with all
reading and writing done in the original devanagari script. It
prepares students to begin reading classics of Sanskrit literature
in the follow-up course in the spring, CLA 476. |
| Professor
H. Tull |
| Class:
10:00-10:50am MTWTh
MarxH 101 |
|
| PHI
205/CLA205 -
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy |
| This
course discusses the ideas and arguments of major ancient Greek
philosophers and thereby introduces students to the history and
continued relevance of the first centuries of western philosophy.
Topics include the rise of cosmological speculation, the beginnings
of philosophical ethics, Plato's moral theory and epistemology,
Aristotle's philosophy of nature, metaphysics and ethics. The
course ends with a survey of philosophical activity in the Hellenistic
period. |
| Professor
Hendrick Lorenz |
Lecture
L01 : 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm M W McCosh
10
Precept P01 : TBA |
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