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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
COURSES - FALL 2009
CLASSICAL - COURSES NOT REQUIRING THE USE OF GREEK OR LATIN
| 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 Brooke Holmes |
| Lecture: 11:00-11:50am TTh Precept 01: 10-10:50am M (Schmidt) Precept 02: 11-11:50am M (Schmidt) Precept 03: 10-10:50am T (Andujar) Precept 04: 2:30-3:20pm T (Zuckerberg) Precept 05: 10-10:50am W (Holmes) Precept 06: 11-11:50am W (Zuckerberg) Precept 07: 12:30-1:20pm Th (Andujar) Precept 08: 1:30-2:20pm Th (Andujar) Precept 08A: 1:30-2:20pm Th (Schmidt) |
| CLA219/HIS219 The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337 |
| To study the Roman Empire at its height; to trace the transformation of government from a republican oligarchy to despotism; to study the changes wrought by multiculturalism on the old unitary society; to trace the rise of Christianity from persecution to dominance; and to assess Rome's contributions to western civilization. |
| Professor Edward J. Champlin |
| Lecture: 2:30-3:20pm MW Precept 01: 3:30-4:20pm M (Maclean) Precept 02: 9-9:50am T (Maclean) Precept 03: 10-10:50am T (Maclean) Precept 04: 1:30-2:20pm T (Young) Precept 05: 2:30-3:20pm T (Young) Precept 06: 3:30-4:20pm T (Young) Precept 07: 10-10:50am W (DiLuzio) Precept 08: 11-11:50am W (DiLuzio) Precept 09: 1:30-2:20pm W (Bomba) Precept 10: 2:30-3:20pm Th (Bomba) Precept 11: 3:30-4:20pm Th (Bomba) |
| CLA326/HIS326/HLS325 Topics in Ancient History and Religion: Athenian Democracy and Its Critics |
| This course will examine the origins, evolution and organization of the democratic system in Athens, and address some of the most controversial questions about the topic: To what extent was Athens democratic? What were the links between Athenian democracy and its aggressive imperialism? What are the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ideas of democracy? |
| Professor Marc Domingo-Gygax |
| Seminar: 1:30-2:50pm MW |
| CLA334/COM334/HLS334 Modern Transformations of Classical Themes: The Tragic Heroine |
| A distinctive contribution of classical culture to the Western literary tradition is the figure of the tragic heroine: girls, wives, and mothers like Antigone, Medea, Phaedra, Hecuba, and Helen. This course will trace the development of these types from their origins in the Greek tragic theater, through Roman adaptations, to their reincarnations in French neoclassical theater, the 19th-century novel and opera, and 20th-century fiction and film. How do tragic presentations of the feminine reflect male and female anxieties about authority, representation, and power? Why does the tragic heroine continue to engage present-day audiences? |
| Professor Janet Martin |
| Seminar: 1:30-2:50pm TTh |
| CLA335/HLS335 Studies in the Classical Tradition: Homer After Homer |
| This course looks at how Homer has been approached across the centuries, from his reception in Athens, in Rome, and in late antiquity, until new attention to Greek brought back old questions in new ways in the modern period. These include Homer the person (one or many, he or she), the writer (written vs. oral), and the historian. Other themes are archaeology, afterlife in visual arts; translating Homer; Homer for the late twentieth century, and the current state of Homer in American (from Troy to the claim that Homer, in the universities, has been killed). |
| Professor Constanze Güthenke |
| Seminar: 3:00-4:20pm MW |
| CLA475/LIN475 Introduction to Sanskrit |
| This class teaches the fundamentals of Sanskrit grammar and phonology. Devanagri script is used throughout. The class prepares students for higher grammar studies and beginning readings in the classics of Sanskrit literature (offered in the follow-up course in the spring, CLA476). |
| Lecturer Herman Tull |
| Class: 10:00-10:50am MTWTh |
| ART432/CLA432/HLS432 Island of Cultures: Sicily from the Greeks to the Normans |
| The seminar will investigate the culture of ancient and medieval Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, strategically situated in its center. Sicily has always been a crossroads-meeting place of different peoples, religions and cultures. Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, successively inhabited it from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The seminar will explore cultural developments in Sicily during the time span from ca. 600 BCE to 1200 CE, focusing on artistic, architectural, and general cultural trends observable in the broader Mediterranean context, while emphasizing idiosyncratic aspects of the island. |
| Professor N. Luraghi & Professor S. Curcic |
| Seminar: 7:30-10:20pm W |
Updated: May 29, 2009 by Jill