91913 |
CLAS 115
The Greek World: an Introduction |
Robert Cioffi
|
M
W 11:50
am-1:10 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
HA |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Historical
Studies This course will explore the social, cultural, and
political history of the Greek world from its earliest beginnings in the Bronze
Age to the renaissance of Greek literature and culture under the Roman empire. We will examine the creation of political forms
(from democracy to tyranny), contacts and conflicts between Greece and the
East, the rise and fall of world empires, and the invention of literary genres
from lyric poetry to the Greek novel. Ancient sources such as vase paintings,
inscriptions, and texts like Aeschylus Persians
and Aristophanes comedies will allow us to view the Greek world both from the
top down and from the bottom up, asking how the experience of statesmen and
literary authors as well as soldiers, merchants, women, and slaves shaped and
was shaped by the world of Greece. Intended as an introductory course for both
majors and non-majors, this course assumes no prior knowledge about the ancient
world. All readings will be in English. Class size: 22
91914 |
CLAS 142
Vergil for Beginners |
William Mullen
|
T
Th 11:50
am-1:10 pm |
OLIN
204 |
FL |
FLLC |
What is the greatest long poem in the Western
tradition? Far more voices, over far more centuries, have spoken for Vergils Aeneid than for Homers Iliad or Dantes Commedia or Miltons Paradise
Lost. We will read the Aeneid twice
in this course (which will admit only
First Year students). The first time round we will read it in three weeks,
in Robert Fitzgeralds extraordinarily noble 1983 translation, the last work of
perhaps the finest 20th century translator of ancient Greek and
Latin poetry. After a six-week break we will reread the Aeneid in the just-published translation of perhaps the finest 21st
century translator of Latin poetry, David Ferry, who, at 94, has accepted Bards
invitation to come read his translation in its month of publication, October
2017. In the six weeks between our reading and rereading of the Aeneid we will study intensely the
historical background of the poems compositiona century of devastating civil
war, which ended with the fateful conversion of Romes republican government to
a system of one-man rule that would last for centuries. And we will also read,
in this six-week break, Vergils earlier works, the Eclogues and the Georgics, plus
Greek poems which were the models he adopted and transformed: Theocritus Idylls, Hesiods Works and Days, and key books of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Class size: 22
91706 |
CLAS 242
Classical Mythology |
William Mullen
|
M
W 3:10
pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN
201 |
FL |
FLLC |
What is the meaning of our mythologies? How do we
understand and interpret traditional stories about the past? What is the
relationship between mythology and history? This course will seek to answer
some of these universal questions by examining selected myths of ancient
GREEK
91915 |
GRE 101
Basic Greek I |
Robert Cioffi
James Romm |
M
T W
Th 10:10 am-11:10 am |
OLIN
307 |
FL |
FLLC |
In this two-part course, Greek grammar
and fundamental vocabulary are introduced, with attention given to
pronunciation and recitation of poetry and prose. Reading includes significant
passages from Homer and important classical Greek authors, in Greek. No prior
knowledge of Greek is required. Class
size: 18
91705 |
GRE 201
Intermediate Greek: sophocles |
William Mullen
|
T
Th 3:10
pm-4:30 pm |
RKC
200 |
FL |
FLLC |
We will read in translation each of
Sophocles seven extant plays and a selection of his surviving fragments. After
discussing each play as a whole in translation, we will read some of its
greatest passages in Greek. Attention will be paid to the way meter
heightens meaning, including in the choruses, masterpieces of Greek choral
meter. Class size: 15
91916 |
GRE 301
Advanced Greek |
Rana Liebert
|
T 10:10 am -11:10am Th
10:10 am -11:30 am |
HEG 300 |
FL |
FLLC |
Topic to be arranged with professor and
qualified students.
Class size: 10
LATIN
91917 |
LAT 101
Beginning Latin I |
Robert Cioffi
James Romm |
M
T W
Th 9:00 am-10:00 am |
OLINLC
118 |
FL |
FLLC |
This
two-semester sequence is designed to equip students who have no prior knowledge
of Latin with the proficiency to read Latin poetry and prose in the original.
An emphasis on grammatical exercises and drills will be gradually combined with
reading short selections from a wide range of Latin literature. Class size: 16
91918 |
LAT 201
intermediate latin: Livy |
Robert Cioffi
|
M T
Th 4:40
pm 5:40 pm |
OLINLC
210 |
FL |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies This course is the continuation of Latin 106, and also serves
as a transition course for students with some background in high-school Latin
who wish to continue their studies at Bard. Emphasis will be on building and
consolidating knowledge of Latin grammar, syntax, and morphology, and on
developing reading fluency and an appreciation for Latin style. After reviewing
and completing the material in the textbook, we will undertake a sustained
close reading of selections from Book 1 of Livys History of Rome, focusing on Romulus and Remus, Romes early
expansion, and on Lucretia and the populist expulsion of the tyrant Tarquinius
Superbus. We will consider this text both as an example of Livys famously rich
Latin prose, and through the lens of its Roman context as an ideologically
charged foundation myth. Class size: 15
91919 |
LAT 301
Advanced Latin: Vergil |
Rana Liebert |
T
Th 11:50
am-1:10 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
FL |
FLLC |
In this course we will read the works that launched Vergils
poetic career: the Eclogues and the Georgics. The Eclogues, a collection of ten short poems that inspired the
European tradition of pastoral poetry, conjure an intriguing fictional world in
the Italian countryside that the author uses to interrogate his own volatile
political situation. The Georgics, a
didactic poem on agriculture that mixes myth and manual, also uses a rustic
backdrop to explore political and philosophical themes. We will study Vergils
innovative reworking of Greek poetic traditions in these poems as well as their
political and social commentary. Class size: 14
91819 |
ARTH
201 Greek
Art and Architecture |
Diana DePardo-Minsky
|
T
Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN
102 |
AA |
AART |
Cross-listed: Classical
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22
91918 |
LAT
201 Intermediate
Latin |
Robert Cioffi
|
T
Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
FL |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Classical
Studies Class size: 15
92105 |
PHIL
343 Plato's
Republic |
Jay Elliott
|
T
1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
ASP
302 |
MBV |
HUM |
Cross-listed: Classical
Studies Class size: 15
92127 |
REL
140 Sanskrit |
Richard Davis
|
T
W Th
8:50 am-9:50 am |
OLINLC
208 |
FL |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies;
Classical Studies Class
size: 20