 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||
FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING 2006
Greek
| CLG102 Beginner's Greek: Attic Prose |
| Designed to enable the student to read classical Attic Greek with facility; at the end of the year a selection of short Attic prose will be read. Equal emphasis on acquiring a vocabulary and an understanding of the structure of the language. |
| Professor: Michael Flower |
| Class: 12:30-1:20 pm MTWTh |
| CLG103 Ancient Greek: An Intensive Introduction |
| This is an intensive introduction to Greek grammar and literature. It covers in one semester material usually done in the standard two-semester introductory sequence (CLG 101/102). Students who complete this course and then take CLG 105 in the fall will be able to complete the usual three semesters' sequence in two and can fulfill the language requirement by taking only one additional course, typically CLG 108. This course aims at providing a reading knowledge of Classical Greek, quickly. |
| Professor: Mark Buchan |
| Class:
10:00-10:50 am - MTWThF |
| CLG108 Homer |
| To learn to read Homer with pleasure. Introduction to Homeric dialect, oral poetry, and meter; discussion of literary technique, historical background to the epics, and Homer's role in the development of Greek thought. |
| Professor: Christian Wildberg |
|
Class 1: 9:00-9:50 am MTWTh Class 2: 12:30-1:20 pm MTWTh |
| CLG214 Seminar: Readings in Greek Historiography |
| This course is an introduction to Greek Historiography. By reading selections from the Greek historians, we will try to answer the following questions: Was the ancient Greek conception of writing history essentially different from ours? How did history relate to rhetoric and other literary genres? What were the main methods of writing history? The emphasis will be on reading passages in the original, followed by discussion of issues. |
| Professor: Marc Domingo-Gygax |
| Seminar: 3:00-4:20 pm MW |
| CLG302 Greek Tragedy |
| Close reading of two or three tragedies in the original Greek, with attention to their literary, dramatic, and cultural significance. The primary aim of the course is to enhance students' knowledge and appreciation of Greek tragic poetry and of the genre of tragedy as a literary, cultural, and political institution of 5th- century Athens, with attention to later dramatic traditions. Some secondary readings will be assigned. The focus this term is on Sophocles and his Oedipus plays. |
|
Professor: Froma I. Zeitlin |
| Seminar: 1:30-2:50 pm MW |
Updated
October 27, 2005 by Jill