17036

CLAS 122

The Roman World: An Introduction

Lauren Curtis

T Th 1:30pm-2:50pm

OLIN 201

HIST

Cross-listed: Historical Studies This course will explore the social, cultural, and political history of Rome from its earliest beginnings as a small city-state in the western Mediterranean to the dominant imperial power that still influences the language we speak, the art we make, and the laws we follow. We will read a wide range of literary, visual, and material primary sources: inscriptions, coins, wall paintings, archaeological data, and texts such as Virgil’s Aeneid, Livy’s history of Rome, and Pliny’s Letters; we will thereby uncover a history of Rome from the top down and bottom up, asking how the experience of emperors, merchants, artists, women, and slaves shaped and was shaped by their Roman world. 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

17038

CLAS / LIT 275

Poetry and Athletics

William Mullen

M W 11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN 201

FLLC

Cross-listed: Literature The meanings to be seen in athletics have stirred the meditations and praises of poets in many different cultures and genres. Poetry itself, particularly when joined with music and dance by competing choruses, has established itself as its own kind of competitive event. This course will study the strange intersections of the physical, the social and the sacred we still recognize in sports. We will allot equal time to three different sets of readings: 1) case studies of the wedding of poetry to athletics in still thriving Oceanic cultures, from the Hawaiians to the Maori; 2) victory odes for the ancient Greek games, principally those of Pindar, praising victors in boxing, wrestling, running, pentathlon, pancratium (a.k.a Ultimate Fighting), chariot, and dithyramb; 3) sports poetry in Europe and the Americas, ranging from bullfighting and capoeira to ball games both in Classic Mesoamerica (Mayan and Aztec) and baseball poems in the 100 years. In all three parts we will not only study the poems themselves but also some scholarship by sports historians on the particular athletic events they reflect, and will view some video clips of the sports and poetry in action. All readings will be in English. Class size: 22

17039

CLAS 322

The Invention of Difference

Robert Cioffi

T 4:40pm-7:00pm

OLIN 301

D+J

FLLC

DIFF

Cross-listed: Literature From the Persian Empire, to Egypt and Ethiopia, to India, the literatures of the classical world were concerned with the representation of other peoples, places, and cultures. How did ancient writers think about difference? How do the ever-shifting boundaries of self and other shape the meaning of literature in antiquity? What is the relationship between structures of power and the literature of difference? In what ways can writing the world become a process of writing the self? This seminar will explore the invention of difference in antiquity in texts such as the Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Persians and Suppliant Women, Euripides’ Helen and Iphigenia among the Taurians, Herodotus’ Histories, Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius, and Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story. We will consider difference from several points of view: ethnicity, class, education, language, sexuality, and religious belief. We will also reflect on how our reading of ancient texts is informed by and can contribute to discussions of difference in other literatures and cultures, including our own. All readings will be in English translation. Class size: 16

17052

GRE 107

Advanced Beginning Greek

Lauren Curtis

T Th 3:10pm-4:30pm

HEG 201

FLLC

4 credits This is the continuation of Greek 106, Intensive Beginning Greek. Focus will be on consolidating knowledge of forms and syntax, and exposure to a variety of different classical authors. Class size: 15

17040

GRE 202

Intermediate Greek II: Plato’s Symposium

William Mullen

T Th 3:10pm-4:30pm

OLINLC 206

FLLC

We will read in Greek most of Plato’s great dialogue on Eros, and all of it in English. For comparison, we will also read the whole of Xenophon’s Symposium in English. Plato’s Greek text we will study in a recent edition (Louise Pratt, Eros at the Banquet Table, 2011) designed for students with only two or three semesters of Greek, and we will supplement it with the same author’s The Essentials of Greek Grammar: A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek, which includes many examples from Plato’s Symposium. Class discussion will range from correct translation and analysis of grammatical points to analysis of the dialogue both as philosophy and as literature. Class size: 22

17601

GRE 302

ADVANCED GREEK: HOMER’S ILIAD

Lauren Curtis

TBA

FLLC

In this advanced reading class, we will read large selections of the Homeric Iliad in Ancient Greek. At the same time, we will delve into both longstanding and more recent questions surrounding the poem’s composition, language, content, and form. Meeting time to be arranged with the instructor.

Class size: 5

17009

LAT 106

Basic Intensive Latin

Rana Liebert

James Romm

M W 10:10am-12:30pm

T Th 10:10am-11:40am

OLIN 306

FLLC

8 credits This course is designed for students with no experience with Latin, to read authors such as Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, and Augustine in the original language after one semester's intensive work (the equivalent of two semesters of college Latin). Daily drills and frequent quizzes will be combined from the beginning with an emphasis on reading: students will begin reading short selections from classical authors after only a few weeks and longer passages by midterm. Those wishing to enroll in this course should consult with Prof. Curtis or Prof. Romm, or attend the informational meeting in early December. Class size: 16

17041

LAT 202

Intermediate Latin II: Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations

Robert Cioffi

T Th 11:50am-1:10pm

OLIN 301

FLLC

This course will involve a sustained close reading of the first of Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations. Faced with a conspiracy to overthrow the government in 63 BCE, Cicero responded with a blisteringly brilliant series of speeches that would mark the height of his political and rhetorical fortunes. He unveiled the plots hatched by Lucius Sergius Catilina; he drove him and his co-conspirators into exile; and he demanded their execution. The course will develop students’ fluency in Latin and skills of literary and rhetorical analysis by paying particular attention to Cicero’s style, language, structure, rhetorical devices, and rhythm. Through readings in English translation, we will also locate this moment in Cicero’s career, in the history of Latin literature, and in its political and historical context at the end of the Roman Republic. Class size: 22

17607

LAT 302

ADVANCED LATIN II: CICERO’S CATILINARIAN ORATIONS

Robert Cioffi

TBA

FLLC

This course will involve a sustained close reading of Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations. Faced with a conspiracy to overthrow the government in 63 BCE, Cicero responded with a blisteringly brilliant series of speeches that would mark the height of his political and rhetorical fortunes. He unveiled the plots hatched by Lucius Sergius Catilina; he drove him and his co-conspirators into exile; and he demanded their execution. The course will develop students’ fluency in Latin and skills of literary and rhetorical analysis by paying particular attention to Cicero’s style, language, structure, rhetorical devices, and rhythm. Through readings in English translation, we will also locate this moment in Cicero’s career, in the history of Latin literature, and in its political and historical context at the end of the Roman Republic. Note: The topic for Latin 202 and 302 is the same, but students at the 300-level will read more of Cicero’s Latin and be asked to write a longer final essay.

17249

ARTH 128

Art of the Ancient Near East

Julia Rosenbaum

M W 11:50am-1:10pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Cross-listed: Classical Studies Class size: 22

17252

ARTH 312

Roma in Situ

Diana DePardo-Minsky

M 3:10pm-5:30pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Cross-listed: Classical Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Italian Studies Class size: 15

17037

LIT 204

Comp Lit: Ancient Literature

Thomas Bartscherer

M W 1:30pm-2:50pm

OLIN 201

ELIT

Cross-listed: Classical Studies Class size: 22

17512

REL 242

Hinduism in the Epics

Richard Davis

M W 3:10pm-4:30pm

OLIN 204

MBV

FLLC

DIFF

Cross-listed: Asian Studies; Classical Studies Class size: 22