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FALL (current):
• Greek
• Latin
SPRING (current):
• Classical
• Greek
• Latin
COURSES SPRING 2010
GRADUATE COURSES
All graduate courses meet in Classics Seminar Room, East Pyne 161, Seminar Room unless otherwise noted.
| CLA514 - Problems in Greek Literature: Hellenistic Poetry |
| In recent years, the study of Hellenistic poetry has flourished and the way we think about important aspects of the history of Greek literature has been transformed. The aim of the course is to offer a survey of these developments by studying a wide range of authors. Most of our attention will focus on Callimachus, Apollonius, Rhodius and Theocritus, but we will also look at other poets ranging in time from Philetas to Parthenius and grapple with some of the problems involved in working with highly fragmentary texts. The course will also permit us to look at certain aspects of the reception of Hellenistic poetry. |
| Professor Damien P. Nelis |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm W |
| CLA515 – Problems in Greek Literature: Heroic Lives and Legends in the Second Sophistic |
| This course explores the reanimation of the Greek heroic tradition in the Imperial era from three intertwined perspectives: literary, ritual and social. We will read selections from Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Plutarch, Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, the spirit of arch and learned play for which the Second Sophistic is famous, and with an eye to investigating how the heroic legacy was tailored to the needs of Graeco-Roman culture in the spheres of athletics, performance oratory, civic deportment and spiritual experience. We will explore the growing body of scholarship on Imperial-era literature in its cultural context. |
| Professor Janet D. Downie |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm Th |
| CLA522 - Problems in Greek History: Elite and Demos in the Ancient Greek City |
| A survey on the social, political and economic relationships between the elite and the demos in the Greek poleis from the archaic age to the Hellenistic period. Particular attention will be paid to the struggle for political power and the redistribution of wealth in classical Athens. We will study the sources of conflict, the way both groups tried to overcome the tensions, and the open confrontations that resulted when such efforts failed. |
| Professor Marc Domingo Gygax |
| Seminar: 7:00 - 9:50 pm T |
| CLA542 – Problems in Latin Literature: Greek and Latin Textual Criticism |
| This seminar will focus on the art and craft of textual criticism, the means by which editions of Greek and Latin texts are made (despite the title of the course, it will not be concerned only with Latin Literature). After sessions on the history and theory of textual editing, we will review a variety of forms that textual transmission can take and do practical exercises solving the sorts of textual problem that arise. |
| Professor Robert A. Kaster |
| Seminar: 9:00-11:50 am M |
| CLA564 - Problems in Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction to the State of the Art |
| This seminar provides a rigorous introduction to Proto-Indo-European language and culture, with an emphasis on how Greek and Latin inform the reconstruction and, in reverse, how a knowledge of historical roots and comparative material can enhance our understanding of the classical languages and texts. The direction the class takes will depend to some extent on the interests of the participants, but the main goals will be to get as good an understanding as time allows of Proto-Indo-European phonology, morphology, syntax, and stylistics and to fruitfully apply linguistic techniques to familiar, and perhaps also unfamiliar, works. |
| Professor Joshua T. Katz |
| Seminar: 1:30-4:20 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 Christian Wildberg |
| Seminar: Time TBA |
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October 21, 2009 5:44 pm by Stephanie