Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SOCRATES: THE MAN AND HIS PHILOSOPHY ***** Socrates, the first moral philosopher, was convicted of impiety and executed by his fellow citizens. His influence on Western thought has been immense, though he left no writings. Readings from Plato's dialogues, with emphasis on the Apology and Gorgias. In addition to papers, each participant will make one presentation and lead one. ***** Enrollment is limited to 15. ***** Also offered as FSEM 101. ***** Course not offered 2005-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Yunis.

Long Title: GREEK CIVILIZATION AND ITS LEGACY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements of classical Greek civilization from Homer through the golden age of classical Athens to the spread of Greek culture in the Hellenistic world. The influence of ancient Greece on Western culture will be a focus. Case studies in the later reception of classical Greek literature (e.g., tragedy), philosophy (e.g., Socrates), history (e.g., democracy), and art (e.g., Parthenon) will be examined.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF PHILOSPHY I ***** Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. ***** Also offered as PHIL 201 and MDST 201. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Morrison

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK CIVILIZATION: FROM HOMER TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT ***** Overview of the literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements of classical Greek civilization from Homer and the Bronze Age through the golden age of classical Athens to the spread of Greek culture in the Hellenistic world. Includes historical background and readings in primary sources. All readings in English. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Also offered as HUMA 109 and HIST 207. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Yunis

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ROMAN CIVILIZATION ***** A survey of Ancient Rome culture from the foundation of the city (8th century BCE) to the fall of the empire in the west (5th century CE). Although the course proceeds chronologically, the focus is not so much on the detailed sequence of historical events as on Roman society and culture (e.g. literature, art. religion, law). ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA ***** Greek: A reading and dramatic analysis of Aeschylus's "Oresteia" (three plays), Sophocles's "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus", "Electra and Antigone"; The "Medea" "Orestes", and "Electra" of Euripides. Latin: A reading and analysis of the "Menaechmi" and the "Miles Gloriosus" of Plautus, the "Phormio" of Terencen and the "Medea" of Seneca. ***** Also offered as ENGL 209. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Mitchell

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE NOVEL IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY ***** Shipwrecks, romance, travel, warfare, feasting, and a man metamorphosed into a donkey. All appear in ancient Greek and Roman prose fiction, examples of which we will read in translation. Topics will include the form's origins, whether the term "novel" adequately defines the texts, and the works' ancient readership. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PERSPECTIVES ON GREEK TRAGEDY ***** Introduction to Greek tragedy, with emphasis on the performance culture of democratic Athens, contemporary philosophical issues and the Greek traditions of poetry and myth. All plays in English translation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Yunis

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME ***** Survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and art. Includes a study of the lives of Greek and Roman women as evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials. ***** Also offered as WGST 225. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY ***** Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C through the 14th century. ***** Also offered as PHIL 301 ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Morrison

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES ***** Examines forms and norms of authorship and ownership from antiquity to the present. What is an author? Is a text public or private property? What are the licit/illicit forms of rewriting and appropriating a text, and how are those forms defined? This class investigates historically these and other issues. ***** Also offered as ANTH 321. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** A chronological survey of sculpture, painting, and architecture of Greece, and the Aegean Islands, and Western Asia Minor from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period (3300-31 BC). Analysis of style, content, and purpose within the cultural and historical contexts. ***** Also offered as HART 312. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quenemoen

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE ***** A chronological survey of Roman sculpture, painting, and architecture from its Etruscan beginnings to the late Empire. Art and architecture of Rome and the provinces considered within their larger social, political, and urban contexts. Particular attention given to patronage, the relation between Roman and Greek art, and Rome's position as an artistic center. ***** Also offered as HART 315 and AMC 315. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quenemoen

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DEMOCRACY & POLITICAL THEORY IN ANCIENT GREECE ***** This course will consider how democracy arose and developed in classical Greece. The course will consider how Athenian direct democracy functioned and what are the differences between ancient and modern democracy. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Yunis

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE INVENTION OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE **** This interdisciplinary course examines the development of the concept of "paganism" during the Roman empire, during the first through seventh centuries AD. We will examine the mutually tolerant character of the many religions of the Roman world and see how the category of paganism was invented and applied by Christians to all the polytheists of the empire and beyond. ***** Also offered as HIST 316 and RELI 316. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): McGill, Maas.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS ***** After defeating Antony and Cleopatra the emperor Augustus restored stability to Rome, oversaw the expansion of empire, and made Rome a capital city. Study of art and literature of this 'Golden Age' will address Augustus' construction of identity, imperial and non-imperial patronage, and the formation of Augustan ideology in Rome and the provinces. ***** Also offered as HART 320. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): McGill; Quenemoen

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY ***** Introduction to the Greek myths, their form and function in ancient society, and their afterlife in modern European literature. Includes discussion of a variety of theoretical approaches to myth. All works read in English translation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Mackie Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ORIGIN OF THE LANGUAGES OF EUROPE ***** Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language". This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? What can we learn about its speakers on the basis of the words that have survived in the various daughter languages? ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EPIC AND NOVEL ***** Why did novelists of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth centuries allude to classical epic, and how did they transform the genre? We will address these questions, reading the Homeric and other ancient epics alongside such novels as Fielding's Tom Jones, Eliot's Middlemarch, and Joyce's Ulysses. ***** Also offered as ENGL 335. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Mackie Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MYTHS OF OTHERWORLD JOURNEY ***** Analysis and comparison of myths of "otherworld journey" in ancient, medical, and modern texts. Who are the typical tellers of and audiences for such tales, and how do they function both in their immediate and in their broader cultural contexts? All works read in English translation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Mackie

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EPIC AND SAGA ***** A comparison of ancient and medieval epics. All works read in translation. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Mackie

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS ***** Independent work. Open to qualified juniors and seniors. ***** Course offered Fall 2004. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS ***** Independent work for qualified juniors and seniors. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SENIOR THESIS ***** Open to classics majors in the final semester of study. Thesis, to be written on a topic of the student's choice in consultation with a member of the faculty. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff