Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SOCRATES: THE MAN AND HIS PHILOSOPHY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This discussion-style seminar will consider how Socrates practiced philosophy, how Plato represented Socrates and Socratic philosophy in writing, and what effect Socrates had on Athens and his fellow Athenians. Readings will consist mainly of Plato's Socratic dialogues, with emphasis on the Apology and Gorgias. In addition to papers, each participant will make one presentation and lead one discussion. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 101.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period through the 15th century. Cross-list: HART 101, MDST 111.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of Western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Caernarvon Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. Cross-list: ARCH 104, HART 104, MDST 104.

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. Cross-list: HUMA 107.

Long Title: ROMAN CIVILIZATION AND ITS LEGACY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will investigate central aspects of Roman civilization: politics, religion, law, oratory, private life, public entertainment, literature, and visual art and architecture. We will also examine the place of ancient Rome in the western imagination, and the influence of ancient Rome on later politics, literature, and art. Cross-list: HUMA 111.

Long Title: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. Cross-list: MDST 201, PHIL 201.

Long Title: ROME: CITY AND EMPIRE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the history and topography of Rome from its origins to its collapse in Western Europe ca. 500 AD. Emphasis on the development of the city of Rome as the center of an evolving empire, seen through its monuments, buildings, art, and literature. Cross-list: HART 215, HIST 262.

Long Title: HOMER AND VIRGIL AND THEIR RECEPTION

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course reads Homer's ILIAD and ODYSSEY and Virgil's AENEID in translation. Topics include the nature of oral poetry, the history of the epic genre, Virgilian intertextuality, the cultural and political contexts in which the poems arose, and case studies in the poets' reception. D1 credit.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ROMAN ART

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers students with little or no background an introduction to Roman art through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private works. Subjects to be addressed include partonage, visuality, narrative, and style within the changing contexts of republic and empire. Cross-list: HART 210.

Long Title: CICERO AND THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of a vital period in Roman history through the letters, speeches, and other works of Marcus Cicero.

Long Title: WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 225.

Long Title: GREEK AND ROMAN SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF OPERA

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the relationship between classical antiquity and opera. To be discussed: Italian language history, literary criticism (Aristotle and Horace), birth of opera (ca. 1600), Ovid's influence, Greek and Roman history, pastoral poetry, recurrent efforts to 'reform' and correct 'abuses' in compositional style in music and poetry. Cross-list: MUSI 230.

Long Title: HISTORY OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Italian literature and culture in translation - from the early masters through the late Renaissance. Historically contextualized readings in Dante's COMMEDIA, Petrarch's CANZONIERE, Boccaccio's DECAMERON, 15th-century humanists (Bruni, Bracciolini, Poliziano, Pico), and 16th-century works by Bembo, Ariosto, Michelangelo, Castiglione, and Tasso.

Long Title: CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: INTERPRETATION, ORIGINS, AND INFLUENCE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We will read and analyze some of the most influential Greek myths (including their parallels and permutations in other cultures). Employing insights from a variety of theoretical approaches to myth, we will identify typical story patterns, characters, and events, and the values, anxieties, and aspirations for which they stand.

Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Cross-list: MDST 301, PHIL 301. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VESUVIUS' BURIED CITIES

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed to coincide with the MFAH exhibition, "Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption," this course examines the ancient cities buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79. It addresses the art and architecture within its social and urban contexts and considers methodological and ethical issues related to excavation and preservation of these sites. Cross-list: HART 307.

Long Title: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines forms and norms of authorship and ownership in Latin antiquity. What is a Roman author? Is a Latin 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. Cross-list: ANTH 321.

Long Title: GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 312.

Long Title: THE HELLENISTIC AGE: ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We examine the art, architecture, and cultural history of the Hellenistic Age, from Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) until the death of Cleopatra (31 BC). During this period a brilliant Greek-based culture developed from the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley, transforming Greeks, Persians, Jews, Romans and many others. Cross-list: HART 313, HIST 303.

Long Title: ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 315.

Long Title: THE INVENTION OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This interdisciplinary course examines the development of the concept of "paganism" in 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. Cross-list: HIST 316.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce you to the major monuments of Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. We will focus not only on the history and functions of these monuments in antiquity but also on how their meaning and representation has changed and evolved in the post-classical world. May 2010. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: HART 318. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE ORIGIN OF THE LANGUAGES OF EUROPE

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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?

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CLASSICS AND MUSIC - ARIANNA & ORFEO

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Advanced level directed reading and performance of musical-poetic texts in the Italian language inspired by the legends of Ariade and Orpheus. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: ATHENS & ROME

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar that examines the art and architecture of two of antiquity's greatest empires: Athens and Rome. Issues to be addressed include the formation of these cities as imperial capitals, the representation of the conquered, and the roles of Pericles and Augustus in forming imperial ideology. Cross-list: HART 415.

Long Title: THE QUEST FOR ORIGINALITY IN CLASSIC ART

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines how modern interests in originality and related desires for original artworks have shaped classical art history. Course considers differences between ancient and modern notions of originality; the degenerative view of Roman art based on the copying of Greek originals; how the modern quest to reconstruct lost originals has impacted the way we see antiquity today. Cross-list: HART 416.

Long Title: BURIED CITIES: THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF AKROTIRI, POMPEII, AND HERCULANEUM

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of classical antiquity's best preserved cities thanks to volcanic eruptions: the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri and the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Art and architecture will be examined within their larger social and urban contexts. Methodological and ethical issues surrounding the excavation and preservation of these sites will also be considered. Cross-list: HART 417.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent work. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent work. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.