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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

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

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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