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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
COURSES - FALL 2006
GRADUATE COURSES
All graduate courses meet in Classics, East Pyne 161 - Seminar Room unless otherwise noted.
| CLA501 - Latin Prose Composition |
| Intensive study of Latin prose syntax and style. Weekly exercises in translating from English to Latin. Survey of the history and development of literary Latin prose through syntactic and stylistic analysis of selections from major authors. |
| Professor Janet M. Martin |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50am - M |
| CLA502 - Survey of Selected Greek Literature |
| A survey of major literary forms and works from the Archaic to the Greco Roman period. |
| Professor Froma Zeitlin |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm - T |
| CLA504 - Homer: The Homer's Iliad: Language, Style, Text |
| Philology, it has been said (notably by Nietzsche and Jakobson), is the art of reading slowly. We will read the Iliad in its entirety as slowly as time permits (24 books in 12 weeks). Particular attention will be paid to the interaction of dialect, formula, and meter, and we will learn how to read and evaluate an apparatus criticus. We hope to show that careful attention to details contributes substantially to an understanding of not only the poem but many larger issues as well, notably how Homer came to be and, then, came to be understood. |
| Professor
Andrew L. Ford Professor Joshua T. Katz |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm W |
| CLA521 - Problems in Greek History: Theory and Methods |
| Historians studying the ancient Greek past are confronted with the same basic problems faced by their colleagues working in other fields of history: To what degree can objectivity be achieved in the analysis of history? Is there any thing such as 'historical truth'? What 'literary' constraints are imposed upon historiographic writings? Can narration on its own provide a real understanding of the past? In this seminar we will study how the main historical schools of the 20th century (structuralism, postmodernism, etc) have approached these questions, and read texts dealing with Greek History written by representative scholars of these schools. |
| Professor Marc Domingo Gygax |
| Seminar: 7:00-9:50pm W |
| CLA540 - Latin Historiography |
| A close reading of Livy I-5 combined with an overview of recent approaches to his historical works. |
| Professor Denis C. Feeney |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 T |
| CLA547/PAW501 - Problems in Ancient History: Belief and Faith in Ancient Religions |
| This seminar will investigate the roles of "belief" and "faith" in a variety of religious traditions in antiquity, while at the same time exploring the differences between faith and belief, and the relationship of each of them to ritual. Were the concepts of "belief" and "faith foreign to the religious mentality of Greek and Roman polytheism? Are these concepts more likely to be found in Judaism and Christianity? And, more generally, can there be ritual without believ in any system that we would recognize as a "religion"? How can methods and models from different disciplines (e.g. psychology, cultural anthropology) help us to answer these and related questions? In January (8-14) the class will travel to Oxford University for joint seminar reports. |
| Professor Michael A. Flower |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 am Th |
| CLA599 - Dissertation Writers' Seminar |
| A practical and theoretical introduction to scholarly writing at the dissertation level and beyond. This seminar is normally required of all post-generals students and will provide information and guidance on the proposal and dissertation writing process; the seminar will meet every two or three weeks throughout the year, providing a forum for dissertators to circulate work in progress for feedback, and to discuss issues that arise in their work. |
| Professor Brent D. Shaw |
| Seminar: Time TBA |
Updated
May 25, 2006 5:11 pm by Stephanie