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11604 |
HIST 201 Alexander
the Great |
James Romm |
. T . Th . |
1:30 -2:50pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies Alexander the Great changed the
world more completely than any other human being, but did he change it for the
better? How should Alexander be understood -- as a tyrant of Hitlerian proportions, or as a philosopher-king seeking to
save the Greek world from self-destruction, or as an utterly deluded
madman? Such questions remain very much unresolvedamong
modern historians. In this course we will attempt to find our own answers
(or lack of them) after reading the ancient sources concerning Alexander and
examining as much primary evidence as can be gathered. Students will
attain insight not only into a cataclysmic period of history but into the moral
and ideological complexities that surround the assessment of historical
personality, whether in antiquity or in the modern world. No
prerequisite, but students will be greatly helped by some familiarity with
Greek history or civilization. Class
size: 25
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11555 |
CLAS 231 The Age of Augustus:
Poetry, Politics and Power |
Lauren Curtis |
. T . Th . |
8:30 -9:50am |
OLIN 201 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed:
Literature; Historical Studies The reign of Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE)
redefined the political and social landscape of Rome and laid claim to a
flourishing of the arts that would profoundly influence Western civilization. This course investigates the phenomenon of
Augustan Rome from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining how the
intersection of literature, art, politics and propaganda came to define an era
and an emperor. Readings (all in English translation) will include the poetry
of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Propertius, and prose authors such as Livy,
Suetonius and the emperor himself, alongside case-studies in architecture,
sculpture, coinage and wall painting. Class size: 22
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12020 |
CLAS 242 Classical Mythology |
Robert Cioffi |
M . W . . |
11:50 - 1:10pm |
OLIN 309 |
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 Greece and Rome and applying to them
theoretical approaches to understanding and interpreting myth. We will proceed
through close analysis of ancient texts in a variety of genres (epic, hymns,
lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, and prose summaries) as well as works of art.
Topics will include: origin myths, Greek gods and heroes, war, the human-divine
relationship (prayer, sacrifice, communication),
madness, divine love and lust, death and the afterlife, and Greco-Roman
mythology in its wider Mediterranean context. All readings will be in English
translation. Class size: 18
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11725 |
HIST 2191 Gender and Sexuality
in the Ancient World |
Carolyn Dewald |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Gender and Sexuality
Studies The course explores the
gendered relations of men and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world. We concentrate on literary and historical
sources, in order to understand both the social history of ancient sexuality
and the literary documents that show its most complex manifestations. Topics
include: early Greek sources; women's lives in classical Athens; Greek
homoerotic relationships; sexuality as part of Greek drama, religion and
mythology; women in Roman myth, literature, and history; differences in Greek
and Roman sexual/social bonds. Class size: 22
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11495 |
LIT 204 Comparative
Literature: Ancient Quarrels—Literature and Critique in Classical
Antiquity |
Thomas Bartscherer |
M . W . . |
1:30 -2:50pm |
OLIN 204 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed: Classical
Studies In a celebrated passage
from Plato’s Republic, Socrates claims that there is “an ancient
quarrel between philosophy and poetry.” In this course, we will consider
this and other ways in which ancient authors (or their characters) configured
the relationship between poetic production and theoretical inquiry, and
therewith gave birth to the practice of literary criticism in the West. We will
begin with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, focusing particularly on the
understanding of poetry manifest within the world of these poems. Readings from
Greek literature will also include lyric poetry (focusing on Sappho and
Pindar), and Attic drama (e.g., Aristophane’s Frogs, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Euripides’ Bacchae). Readings from the Latin
corpus will include the epic (Vergil) drama (Seneca),
and lyric (Catullus, Horace). Concurrently, we will be examining the ongoing
critique of literature from the fragments of early Greek philosophers (e.g.
Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus), through Plato and Aristotle, to Cicero and
Horace. Our twofold aim will be to develop an understanding of these texts in
their original context and to consider how they set the stage for subsequent
developments in western literature and criticism. Class size: 22
|
11434 |
ARTH 210 Roman Art
and Architecture |
Diana DePardo-Minsky |
. T . Th . |
4:40 -6:00pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
|
11782 |
LIT 2209 Plato's
Writing: Dialogue and Dialectic |
Thomas Bartscherer |
M . W . . |
6:20 -7:40pm |
OLIN 203 |
HUM |
|
11551 |
LIT 2198 Ancient
Fiction: The Greek and Roman Novel |
Robert Cioffi |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30pm |
OLIN 310 |
FLLC |
|
11924 |
REL 226 Intermediate
Sanskrit II |
Richard Davis |
M . W . . |
3:10 -4:30pm |
OLIN 304 |
FLLC |
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11559 |
GRE 202 Intermediate
Greek: Herodotus |
Carolyn
Dewald |
. T . Th . |
3:10 -4:30 pm |
OLIN 107 |
FLLC |
We will be reading selections from the beginning of
Herodotus' Histories of the Persian Wars;
Herodotus (c.480-425 BCE) is popularly known as 'the father of History' since
he is, as far as we know, the first historian.
His text is famous among later Greek thinkers for its marvelous stories
and its lucid and flowing narrative style, and we will use the semester to firm
up your integration of Greek grammar and basic vocabulary; to consider what
historiography meant at the very beginning of the genre; and, finally, to think
about how Greek prose is constructed and what constitutes a good Greek prose
style. Some analytical consideration will be given to other classical authors
contemporary to Herodotus as well; we will consider the extent to which he is a
full-fledged member of the 'Greek Enlightenment' (aka 'the first sophistic'). Class size: 12
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11553 |
LAT 102 Beginning
Latin II |
Lauren
Curtis |
M T W Th . |
10:30 - 11:30 am |
OLIN 307 |
FLLC |
This is the second semester of a two-semester sequence 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, during this second semester, be increasingly
combined with reading selections from a wide range of Latin literature. Class size: 18
|
11550 |
LAT 202 Intermediate
Latin II |
Robert
Cioffi |
M T . Th . |
10:30 - 11:30 am |
OLIN 304 |
FLLC |
This course aims to solidify students’ knowledge of Latin vocabulary,
morphology, and syntax, and to help them build interpretative tools for reading
and engaging with Latin literature on their own terms. The course will focus on
intensive reading of Latin. Class size: 15
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11572 |
LAT 302 Roman Medea |
James
Romm |
M . W . . |
11:50 -1:10 pm |
OLIN 302 |
FLLC |
An examination of how the mythic figure of Medea was reimagined and
reinterpreted by the Romans, in particular Ovid and Seneca. We will read works of both authors in Latin, together
with their Greek sources, Euripides and Apollonius of Rhodes, in English. Class
size: 12