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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
COURSES - FALL 2008
GRADUATE COURSES
All graduate courses meet in Classics, East Pyne 161 - Seminar Room unless otherwise noted.
| CLA502 - Survey of Selected Greek Literature: Survey of Greek Literature |
| A survey of major literary forms and works from the Archaic to the Greco-Roman period with attention to literary methodology. |
| Professor Brooke A. Holmes |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm - W |
| CLA526 - Problems in Greek and Roman Philosophy: What is Platonism? |
| This seminar explores the broad subject of Platonism in antiquity, its intellectual roots, first articulation, and subsequent evolution into the dominating philosophical system in antiquity that continued to enjoy major influence in the middle ages and early modern times. We shall read salient parts of Plato's dialogues, examine the case that has been made for the importance of Plato's 'unwritten doctrines', discuss the Platonism of Aristotle, and canvass the fragmentary evidence surviving from the so-called Old and Middle Academies. The seminar concludes with an introduction to Neoplatonism. |
| Professor Christian Wildberg |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50am - F |
| CLA542 - Problems in Latin Literature: Roman Epistolography |
| This seminar will focus on ancient Roman letter-writing as a generic and social practice. How did the genre of letter-writing develop in ancient Rome? How did the Romans themselves think of it, to what uses did they put it, what advantages did they think it offered? We will read a selection of ancient Roman letters, documentary and fictional, in prose and poetry, in order to begin to answer some of these questions. We will begin with theory, ancient and modern. We will then consider a number of topics, including: letter as a social tool, letter as absence, embedded letters, arrangement of letter collections. |
| Professor
Yelena Baraz |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm M |
| CLA545 - Problems in Roman History: Historiography of the Roman Republic |
| This course will offer the opportunity to study the fragments of the Roman historical writers from Q. Fabius Pictor (late century BC) to the time of Sallust (mid-first century BC), who is our earliest extant Roman Historian. These texts illustrate the origins of historical writing in Rome and its development before Livy's monumental history of the city. We will look at how these fragmentary authors have been studied by modern scholars since H. Peter's first edition (1870), at what they can tell us about how Romans represented and debated their city's history, and at the later authors who cite these historians. |
| Professor Harriet I. Flower |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50am W |
| CLA547/PAW501/HLS501 - Problems in Ancient History: Sparta and the Peloponnese |
| This seminar will investigate Spartan culture, as well as Sparta's relations with other communities in the Peloponnese, from an interdisciplinary perspective. We will investigate questions relating to ethos and identity, political and social structures, religious festivals and practices, art and architecture, and the political, social, and ideological relationships between Spartans and other Greeks. A special feature of the course is two trips abroad: we will travel to Greece during the fall break, and in January (12-18) to Oxford University for joint sessions with a seminar that will be taught there on the same topic. |
| Professor
Michael A. Flower Professor Nino Luraghi |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 T |
| CLA564 - Problems in Indo-European Linguistics: Linear B and the Mycenaean World |
| This seminar provides an introduction to the earliest attested form of the Greek Language, Mycenaean, and to the world that the Linear B tablets open up to us. Going carefully through the major inscriptions in the course of the semester, we will concentrate on linguistic issues while also paying attention to matters of concern to literary and historical classicists. Topics include the decipherment of Linear B and its connections to other scripts; the place of Mycenaean among Greek dialects and its relationship to the Homeric Kunstsprache; and the Trojan War from the perspective of both Mycenaean and Hittite documents. |
| Professor
Joshua T. Katz |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20pm T |
| 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 20, 2008 @ 4:55 pm by Stephanie