PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
| FRS 131 | Freshman Seminar: The Mediterranean and Its Travelers | Constanze Magdalene Güthenke |
| FRS 161 | Merchants of Venice: Understanding Business in the Premodern World | Molly Greene |
| HLS 101/MOG 101 | Elementary Modern Greek |
Dimitri H. Gondicas |
| HLS 105/MOG 105 | Intermediate Modern Greek |
Efthymia Rentzou |
| ART 204/HLS 204 | Pagans and Christians: Urbanism, Architecture and Art of Late Antiquity | Slobodan |
| FRE 401/HLS 401 | Seminar in French Literature and Culture: Greek Antiquity in French Avant-Garde Literature, Arts, and Cinema | Efthymia Rentzou |
| ART 430/HLS 430 | Seminar: Medieval Art | Slobodan |
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Freshman Seminar: The Mediterranean and Its Travelers
FRS 131
We will look at travelers from different periods and to different areas of the Mediterranean. Writers include the ancient historian Herodotus, early pilgrims to the Holy Land, the German 18th-century poet Goethe (who saw his life transformed in Italy), artists and poets who trawled the Mediterranean for artifacts and inspiration, adventurous women travelers to Egypt and the Levant in the 18th and 19th century, Mark Twain (who raises the question: Is a traveler the same as a tourist?), Henry Miller, and contemporary travel writers such as Patrick Leigh Fermor or Patricia Storace on Greece or Amitav Ghosh on Egypt.
Constanze Magdalene Güthenke Seminar: 1:30 pm - 4:20 pm Th
Merchants of Venice: Understanding Business in the Premodern World
FRS 161
Corporate America, the Fortune 500, Wall Street -- these terms and many others like them are household terms. Their ubiquity speaks to the looming presence of business in the modern world. Indeed, a successful business sector is generally viewed as one of the essential components of a modern society. But business did not begin with modernity. It is a universal human activity that has been with us throughout history. In this course we will develop an historical understanding of business by considering the place of markets, manufacturing, exchange, and merchants in pre-modern societies.
Molly Greene Seminar: 1:30-4:20 p.m. W
Elementary Modern Greek
HLS 101/MOG 101
Intermediate Modern Greek
HLS 105/MOG 105
Pagans and Christians: Urbanism, Architecture and Art of Late Antiquity
ART 204/HLS 204
Urbanism, Architecture and Art of the Mediterranean world, ca. 200-600 A.D. This course will focus on the urban forms, architecture and art in the Late Roman Empire. It will explore the transformations brought about by the spread and triumph of Christianity, pagan resistance, 'barbarian' incursions and other forces. The course will culminate with the analysis of the formation of a new, Byzantine architectural and artistic tradition, associated with the fully Christianized Eastern Roman Empire.
Slobodan
Lecture: 9:00-9:50 a.m. MW
Seminar in French Literature and Culture:
Greek Antiquity in French Avant-Garde Literature, Arts, and Cinema
FRE 401/HLS 401
The French avant-garde exhibited a striking contradiction, in which the desire for absolute novelty was enacted by recycling the most traditional icons and topics of Greek antiquity. We will examine this phenomenon in literature, art, theatre, and cinema. Analysis of these aesthetic tactics will lead our discussions towards a consideration of the broader strategies and scope of the avant-garde. Materials will include some non-French texts, as well as films, theater and installations, visual arts, and magazines.
Efthymia Rentzou Seminar: 1:30-4:20 M
Seminar: Medieval Art
ART 430/HLS 430
Death and Salvation: Their expression in architecture and the arts of the
Byzantine world from ca. 800 to ca. 1500. The seminar will explore the religious
practice, theological teachings and artistic responses to one of the central
concerns of the Byzantine Society in the later centuries of the empire.
Slobodan
Seminar: 7:30 p.m. - 10:20 Th
The Art of the Iron Age: The Near East and Early Greece
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Greek and Roman Architecture
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Greek Art |
Archaic Greek Sculpture and Painting
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Classical Mythology |
Archaic and Classic Greece
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Survey of Selected Greek Literature
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Ancient Literary Criticism
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Problems in Ancient History: Priest and Power in the Ancient World
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Beginner’s Greek: Greek Grammar
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Socrates
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Tragic Drama CLG 213 Seminar: 3:00-4:20 pm MW Froma I Zeitlin |
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Greek Literature: Selected Authors: Greek Love Poetry
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Word and Image
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Cultural Systems: Sight and Seeing in
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Cultural Systems: A Critical Genealogy of Ressentiment: Europe & the Colonial Experience
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Europe in the 20th Century
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Seminar in European Cultural and Intellectual History: The 20th Century
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From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Literature and the Arts
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From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: History, Philosophy, and Religion
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Topics in Medieval Music
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Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
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The Near East and the Eastern Question since 1815
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Introduction to Ottoman Turkish
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Introduction to Syriac
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Syriac Prose Writings
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Introduction to Classical Armenian
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Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
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Plato and His Precessors
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Topics in Recent and Contemporary Philosophy: History and Theory of Friendship
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| Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: The Person, the Community, and the Polity PHI 515 Seminar: 12:15-3:05 pm T John M. Cooper
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Ancient and Medieval Political Theory POL 301 Lecture: 2:30-3:20 pm TTh Paul Sigmund |
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| Politics and Religion POL 309 Lecture: 12:30-1:20 pm MW Maurizio Viroli
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The Early Christian Movement REL 252 Lecture: 1:30-2:20 pm MW Elaine H. Pagels
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| Religion and Literature of the Old Testament: Through the Babylonian Exile REL 230 Lecture: 10:00-10:50 am MW Martha Himmelfarb
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Jew, Gentiles, and Christians in the Ancient World REL 343 Class: 11:00-12:20 pm MW John G. Gager
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| Studies in Grece-Roman Religions: Genres of Rabbinic Literature REL 501/JDS 504 Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm T Peter Schaefer |