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Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE. Key works of literature, history, and philosophy (read in English translation) will be examined in their political and social context, and in relation both to other ancient Mediterranean cultures and to subsequent developments in Western civilization.
An introduction to essential aspects of the cultural and literary landscape of ancient Greece, from its rise to the end of the classical period. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section. CCN 32194
A survey of ancient Greek literature, history, and culture from the eighth century BCE to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. We will focus on what made Greek culture distinctive and different from our own.
Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE. Key works of literature, history, and philosophy (read in English translation) will be examined in their political and social context, and in relation both to other ancient Mediterranean cultures and to subsequent developments in Western civilization.
A survey of ancient Greek literature, history, and culture from the eighth century BCE to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. We will focus on what made Greek culture distinctive and different from our own.
Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE.
Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE.
Session A: May 20-June 28
This course is an introduction to Roman culture and society in ten cities and ten texts. Each city will introduce us to aspects of Roman life, including politics, identity, philosophy, gender, sexuality, slavery, in the period between 500 BCE and c.350 CE and across the regions of the Roman empire. The ten texts include epic poems, historical biographies, comic and romantic tales, and attacks on political and religious enemies. The cities and the texts will help us think about the kinds of evidence we have for ancient Rome. We will pay particular attention to both systems of oppression and cultural pluralism and marginalized experiences in the Roman world. We will also think about why modern culture remains so fascinated with Rome: how often do you think about the Roman Empire?
Investigation of the main achievements and tensions in Roman culture from Romulus to the High Empire. Key sources for literature, history, and material culture are studied in order to reveal Roman civilization in its political and social context. All materials are read in English.
Investigation of the main achievements and tensions in Roman culture from Romulus to the High Empire.
Investigation of the main achievements and tensions in Roman culture from Romulus to the High Empire.
Session D: July 1-August 9
An introduction to the history, literature, and society of the ancient Romans.
In this class, we will study the ancient Greek world on its own terms by reading Greek literature in translation. We will explore why the Trojan War had such a hold on the Greek imagination, how Greece came to define itself in relation to the rest of the Mediterranean, what circumstances led some ancient Greek cities to develop democracies, and why this literature continues to resonate with us over two millennia later. Asynchronous written responses, synchronous discussion. Meets L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies, or Philosophy & Values. CCN 13504
An introduction to essential aspects of the cultural and literary landscape of ancient Greece, from its rise to the end of the classical period. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
The ancient Romans can seem both unimaginably distant and surprisingly central to our ideas of Western history and culture. This class will give you a better understanding of Roman culture in its own context and also a perspective from which to understand the image of Rome as circulated in later societies. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section. CCN 21786
How should a citizen react to injustice? To violence? corruption? What impact do problems like imperialism, poverty, slavery, and intolerance have on a society, and can they ever be escaped? These are some of the questions raised by ancient Roman authors two millennia ago. Class format: mixture of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, discussion, and writing assignments. Meets L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies, or Philosophy & Values. CCN 13506
Who built the Parthenon and why? Where did the Olympic Games truly get their start? Who were the ancient Greek gods, and how do we know? Join us in AGRS 17A as we explore the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and provide some answers to these questions and many more!
An in-depth introduction to the material culture of the Ancient Greeks —architecture, sculpture, painting, and ceramics—from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
Who were the ancient Greeks, and what did they leave behind? From famous temples and statues to the houses, graves, and possessions of everyday people, we'll explore the archaeology of the Greek world from the first farmers through the aftermath of Alexander the Great's empire.
Who were the ancient Greeks, and what did they leave behind? From famous temples and statues to the houses, graves, and possessions of everyday people, we'll explore the archaeology of the Greek world from the first farmers through the aftermath of Alexander the Great's empire.
Broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans.
Broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans.
This course provides a broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans from Rome’s origins in the Iron Age down to the disintegration of the Roman empire in the sixth century A.D. It aims to familiarize students with the more significant archaeological sites, monuments, artifact classes and works of art relating to the Roman world, and to introduce them to the important research questions in Roman archaeology and the methods that archaeologists employ to investigate these.
An in-depth introduction to the material culture of the Ancient Greeks —architecture, sculpture, painting, and ceramics—from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
Broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. CCN 21793
In this seminar we will read and discuss some essays by the Roman Stoic authors Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. We will focus particularly on their teaching about how to manage one's emotions, and make the best of oneself in all times, good and bad.seminar is part of the Food for Thought Seminar Series.
From the early days of film to very recent Hollywood blockbusters, ancient Greek and Roman history and culture has been a popular subject and influence for film-makers. In this freshman seminar we will watch and discuss a selection of films that depict and transform the ancient world. Freshman seminar; 1 unit. CCN 32196
Reading and discussion of Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe. Freshman seminar; I unit. CCN 32227
In this seminar, we will read and discuss the Iliad (in the translation by Richmond Lattimore), focusing on the central books.
An opportunity to analyze the romantic legends, figures, and stereotypes of archaeology and to discover the exciting real elements and adventures of today’s archaeologist.
Freshman seminar. An opportunity to analyze the romantic legends, figures, and stereotypes of archaeology and to discover the exciting real elements and adventures of today’s archaeologist. CCN 30581
Reading and discussion of a landmark of world literature, the ancient Roman novel by Apuleius entitled The Golden Ass.
Freshman seminar. Reading and discussion of a landmark of world literature, the ancient Greek epic poem called the Odyssey. CCN 30582
An introduction to the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, covering ancient and modern tellings of these traditional stories. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
This course is intended as an introduction to the themes, characters, and images of Greek and Roman myth. We will create the universe, gods, and humans, and then focus on particular heroes as opportunities to consider the scope and interpretations of the mythology. We will consider how these ancient cultures conceived of deity, what it meant to be human, and how they dealt with the mysterious and the inexplicable. Primary evidence (literary references, physical remains such as temples and monuments, and iconography in sculpture and vase painting) will be used to identify and interpret the myths, study their origins, and analyze their importance for our understanding of ancient belief systems. Particular attention will be paid to the role of mythology in ancient religious ritual and its influence on culture. Lectures will be illustrated with images of ancient and more recent art, as one goal of the course is to provide the tools to recognize myths and characters in art.
The society, culture, values and outlook on life of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their mythology; their views on life, birth, marriage, death, sex and sexuality; on culture and civilization, the origin and meaning of the world. Their use of myth to think about, and give order to human experience. The course includes some of the most important works of Western literature in English translation (the 'Odyssey', the 'Theogony'), twelve plays by leading Greek dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides), along with their historical and religious context, as well as drawing on material evidence (vase paintings, sculpture, archaeological sites).
The society, culture, values and outlook on life of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their mythology; their views on life, birth, marriage, death, sex and sexuality; on culture and civilization, the origin and meaning of the world.
The society, culture, values and outlook on life of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their mythology; their views on life, birth, marriage, death, sex and sexuality; on culture and civilization, the origin and meaning of the world.
Session D: July 1-August 9
Telling stories is one way humans make sense of the world and their lives in it. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, these stories were very often in the form of tales of the adventures, triumphs and sufferings of gods and heroes – what we call classical myths. This class examines many of these myths, what they meant to Greeks and Romans, and what they still mean for us. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section. CCN 21794
Reading and discussion of stories from the ancient Mediterranean world about gods and their children, the creation of the world, the triumphs and tribulations of heroes, and more. Hybrid format. Meets L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values. CCN 13508
This course examines ideas about magic in the Greek and Roman worlds 750 BCE - 400 CE, including witches, holy men, love spells, necromancy, spirits, and mystery religions, as well as the relationship between magic, religion, and philosophy.
An introduction to Greek and Roman epics focusing on the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, with an emphasis on reading and interpreting these poems in their cultural contexts. One midterm, a term paper, and a final exam.
Introduction to ancient Greek philosopy through study of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics.
An introduction to ancient Greek philosophy through study of Plato, Aristotle, and the most important of the schools of thought that succeeded them (Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics). These ancient philosophers set the agenda for many of the questions still thought fundamental to philosophic inquiry, but approached them in a spirit different from that typical of modern philosophy. They thought of philosophy as a way of life; indeed, the best way. Readings will include Plato, "Republic" (entire); Aristotle, "Physics" and "Ethics" (selections); Lucretius, "The Way Things Are" (entire); and selections from Stoic and Sceptic philosophers.
An introduction to ancient Greek philosophy through study of Plato, Aristotle, and the most important of the schools of thought that succeeded them. Fulfills L&S Î’readth in Historical Studies or Philosophy & Values. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
"We’re going to show not just how sexy and appealing [Cleopatra] was, but how strategic and smart, and how much impact she had and still has on the world we’re living in today." — Gal Gadot promoting her upcoming movie Cleopatra, not AGRS 39A
Explore the social dynamics of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome. We'll read plays, satires, and novels in order to understand the ways that comedy subverts and/or strengthens the power structures of ancient (and modern) societies. CCN 32693
Themes from the literature & culture of ancient Greece, the Hebrew Bible, ancient Rome, and early Christianity significant for Western civilization's development. Fulfills R&C A or B plus L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature OR Philosophy & Values OR Social & Behavioral Sciences. 5 units.
Themes from the literature & culture of ancient Greece, the Hebrew Bible, ancient Rome, and early Christianity significant for Western Civilization's development. 5 units. Fulfills R&C A or B + one L&S Breadth.
Covering Homeric & Classical Greece, Rome in its transition from republic to empire, & the world of the Hebrew Bible, this course surveys ancient Mediterranean civilizations with an emphasis on building writing skill. Satisfies Parts A or B of the R&C requirement.
Major themes from the culture of ancient Greece, the Hebrew Bible, classical Rome, & early Christianity significant for Western Civilization. Satisfies either half of the R&C requirement.
An exploration of major themes from the literature and culture of ancient Greece, the Hebrew Bible, ancient Rome, and early Christianity that have been of special significance for the subsequent development of Western Civilization. 5 units. Fulfills R&C a or b as well as L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature, Historical Studies, or Social & Behavioral Sciences.
An introduction to some of the most important works of classical antiquity that theorize about literature. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values. CCN 30583
An in-depth introduction to the material culture of the Ancient Greeks —architecture, sculpture, painting, and ceramics—from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion section.
This undergraduate seminar will explore mortuary archaeology in the Aegean and Greek worlds from the prehistoric to historic periods. We will consider the mortuary environment; grave architecture; burial traditions and rituals including the treatment of the body, the depositional circumstances/parameters, and the grave gifts/offerings; and the reconstruction of attitudes and beliefs about death, mourning, identity, and memory as well as the reflection/reconstruction of life through the mortuary record.
An exploration of the archaeological and textual evidence for the city of Rome during the earliest centuries of its existence.
An introduction to the political thought of Ancient Greece through study of Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle.
A broad-based survey of the nature of economic life in the Roman Empire and the various forms of evidence, methods and theories that archaeologists and historians employ to learn about this.
A broad overview of the economy of the Roman Empire.
The history of ideas about the soul’s postmortem fate in the ancient Mediterranean world.
An examination of the history of ideas about the soul’s postmortem fate in the ancient Mediterranean world.
This course will focus on ideas about magic in the Greek and Roman worlds from about 750 BCE through 400 CE. Topics will include witches, holy men, love spells, necromancy, spirits, and mystery religions.We will examine how magic was represented in high literature (by authors like Homer, Ovid, Apuleius and Lucian) as well as the more practical evidence of curse tablets and the Greek Magical Papyri. Consideration will be given to analyzing the relationship between magic, religion, and philosophy. Our goal will be to study the common threads that connect different Greek and Roman magical practices, as well as to understand them in their cultural contexts. No knowledge of Greek or Latin required.
Witches, holy men, love spells, and mystery religions in ancient Greece and Rome. What did the practice of magic mean in its ancient cultural context?
Important people in Greek and Roman society were commemorated both in honorific portraits and in celebratory biographies. This class seeks to compare and contrast sculpted portraits and biographical accounts of a diverse selection of famous figures from antiquity, including politicians, philosophers, and poets. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature. CCN 32203
During the reign of Augustus Rome was transformed by an ambitious building program. This class will consider how the emperor’s many buildings—his Mausoleum, the new temples, his many monuments—helped shape popular perceptions of his new system of government (a veiled monarchy).
An investigation of the conceptions of divinity put forward by the principal philosophers and philosophic schools of thought in ancient Greece.
Important people in Greek and Roman society were commemorated both in honorific portraits and in celebratory biographies. This class seeks to compare and contrast sculpted portraits and biographical accounts of a diverse selection of famous figures from antiquity, including politicians, philosophers, and poets. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature.
Was there ever an actual war between two powerful Bronze Age Aegean cultures? Did Hektor and Achilles actually clash on the battlefield? Did the Trojan Horse cause the destruction of a powerful city and its people? Was Helen really "a face that launched 1000 ships?" Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. CCN 32476
Study of topics in gender, feminism, and sexuality in ancient cultures. Topics vary from year to year.
This course will study sexuality and gender in two very different historical periods—ancient Greece and 19th-century Europe. We will read literary texts, historical documents, and critical essays to constitute a comparative analysis of systems of gender and sexuality.
A survey of the painting in the ancient Greek world, on a variety of materials, from its beginnings in prehistory to its height of international fame and accomplishment in the Hellenistic period, focusing on: techniques, materials, continuity and development in styles and use, the interrelationship of the various media, decorative vs. narrative meaning, regional and chronological trends, the craft vs. the art.
An introduction to the ancient civilizations of the Bronze Age (3000-1100 BCE) Aegean: Crete, the Cyclades, Mainland Greece, and Western Anatolia. The still enigmatic remains of palaces, burials, paintings, and precious objects are explored in terms of their cultural contexts.
Through this field school students will participate in archaeological excavation and museum study in Greece at the site of Nemea and the Classical Sanctuary of Zeus.
A broad survey of the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum, exploring how archaeologists and historians employ this evidence to illuminate the social, political, and economic life of these two communities.
From Neolithic hamlet to democratic superpower, and from obscure Ottoman town to capital of modern Greece, Athens has been inhabited continuously for almost 5,000 years. This course will focus in particular on Athens’ development in the period from ca. 700 BCE to the 6th century CE. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature
This course explores the geography, archaeology, mythology, and history of a specific region in the classical world: Thessaly, Greece. Together, we will discuss ancient texts and modern analyses in order to obtain a greater understanding of the region’s character and the unique culture it had, which differs it from the other areas in Greece.
Learn how to interpret papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt and to deploy them for the writing of more inclusive histories of the ancient Mediterranean.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Greek 2.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Greek 2.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Greek 2.
The first semester of study of Ancient Greek
The first semester of study of Ancient Greek
The first semester of study of Ancient Greek
The first semester of study of Ancient Greek
This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that will enable you to start reading unabridged texts in ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato. While the focus of the class will be on mastering this nuanced and evocative language, it will also introduce you to key themes and elements of ancient Greek literature and culture.
Second semester of introductory ancient Greek.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato. CCN 22301
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of ancient Greek; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study.
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of ancient Greek; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study.
Session B- June 3-August 9
Careful reading of Xenophon's Anabasis and Plato's Crito, coupled with grammar review and some English-to-Greek composition. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values.
Attic Greek prose reading and grammar review. Fulfills L&S breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy & Values.
In this course we will read two texts in the original Ancient Greek (NOT in translation!): first, Lysias' courtroom speech “On the murder of Eratosthenes,” followed by Plato's "Crito."
Readings from Plato's and from other Attic prose authors (e.g., Xenophon, Lysias); some review of grammar.
While the course is primarily directed towards improving your knowledge of Greek, it will include consideration of our texts as intellectual and artistic achievements, and for the light they shed on Athenian culture.
In this course, we will read select passages from Homer’s Iliad in Greek, as well as the entire poem in English translation. Students will (1) develop an understanding of the syntax, vocabulary, dialect, and meter of Homeric Greek, (2) discuss the Iliad as a work of literature and poetry, with attention to issues of narration and style, and (3) gain familiarity with key questions and debates within Homeric scholarship.
Reading of selections from Homer’s Iliad in the original ancient Greek. In addition to developing language skills, we will examine the poem’s depictions of justice, emotion, violence, community, gender, mortality, politics, and how humans are to behave in the world.
We will read Euripides’ Hippolytus, with close attention paid to translation of the Greek text and to the literary, religious, and historical issues raised by this play.
Reading of Sophocles' Trachiniai (The Women of Trachis) in Greek. While our primary focus will be the accurate translation and understanding of the text, we will also be concerned with Greek tragedy as a cultural form and with the social and cultural context of classical Athens that produced this play.
A close reading of a neglected play of Euripides, Suppliant Women, which thematizes migration and mourning. Meets L&S Breadth for Arts & Literature.
This course will serve as an introduction to the poetic production of the archaic period—the elegy, iambic, and melic poetry composed between ca. 650-450 BCE throughout the Greek world. All material will be read in the original ancient Greek. This will entail reading selected poems and fragments by Archilochos, Tyrtaios, Mimnermos, Solon, Theognis, Xenophanes, Alkman, Stesichoros, Sappho, Alkaios, Ibykos, Anakreon, and Simonides. We will focus on the poems simultaneously as literary texts and as historical artifacts, considering such topics as their relation to Homeric themes and diction, the effects of orality and literacy, performance context, genre, and sociological/ideological position. We will then devote approximately the last third of the course to reading selected poetry of Pindar and Bacchylides. Course requirements include two midterms, a final exam, and a short (6-10 pp.) literary paper.
Study, in ancient Greek, of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon.
Reading (in Greek) and discussion of Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature. CCN 30344
In this course we will read and discuss Plato's Phaedrus, one of his most beautiful and fascinating dialogues. Note: course experience in ancient Greek language equivalent to three semesters of study is a prerequisite.
In this course we will consider the accounts of poetry (or, more generally, of literature) found in Plato's Ion and in portions of Republic Books 2-3 and Book 10. Texts will be read in the original ancient Greek.
Reading and discussion of Plato's Symposium, one of his most enduring and influential dialogues. Note: course experience in ancient Greek language equivalent to three semesters of study is a prerequisite. Meets L&S Breadth for Arts & Literature OR Philosophy & Values.
Requirements: regular participation in class, midterm, four-page term-paper, final exam.
Reading in the original ancient Greek of a tragedy by Euripides plus study of other Greek tragedies translated into English.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2. This section will meet ON LINE.
Latin 1 is the first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2.
Latin 1 is the first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin. The course focuses on the dialect of Latin used by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, and Ovid. If you want to read the language used by Caesar to address the senate, by Dido to blast Aeneas, and by Petronius to write one of the first novels, this course is your first step. This course also will also equip you to read later texts such as the works of Augustine and the Latin translations of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles—and to decipher the Latin terms and phrases used in law and bio-scientific disciplines.
Latin 1 is the first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin. The course focuses on the dialect of Latin used by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, and Ovid. If you want to read the language used by Caesar to address the senate, by Dido to blast Aeneas, and by Petronius to write one of the first novels, this course is your first step. This course also will also equip you to read later texts such as the works of Augustine and the Latin translations of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles—and to decipher the Latin terms and phrases used in law and bio-scientific disciplines.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2. CCN 22565
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2. CCN 22566
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2.
Latin 1 is the first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin; can be taken independently or in conjunction with Latin 2.
Latin 1 is the first half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
Latin 2 is the second half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin. The course focuses on the dialect of Latin used by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, and Ovid.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin. CCN 22567
The second half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin.
The second half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of Latin; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study.
Designed for anyone who wishes to acquire reading knowledge of Latin; replaces 2+ semesters of traditional study. Lectures, discussions, drills and tutorial sessions on grammar and vocabulary; readings in Latin prose and poetry (e.g., Cicero and Ovid).
Session B: June 3 - August 9
Selections from Caesar and Cicero with the aim of learning to read Latin with understanding and enjoyment. Review of morphology, syntax, and vocabulary to improve reading facility. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies.
We will read selections in Latin from Caesar & Cicero. The aims of the class are to learn to read Latin with understanding & enjoyment & to improve the reading knowledge by reviewing morphology, syntax, & vocabulary.
Two midterms and a final exam. Attendance & participation will be part of your grade.
This course serves as an introduction to reading and translating Latin prose through the works of two of the most famous Latin prose authors of the Republican period: Caesar and Cicero. Both authors write in elegant and appealing Latin, and their works stand at critical points in Roman imperial expansion and the collapse of the Roman Republic. The course also serves a bridge between the Latin grammar sequence and advanced reading courses, strengthening the skills acquired in introductory Latin and familiarizing students with the tools and best practices of reading and translating unadapted Latin prose.
An introduction to reading and translating Latin prose through the works of two of the most famous Latin prose authors of the Republican period: Caesar and Cicero.
Readings primarily drawn from Caesar’s own Civil War and from the Alexandrian War, with the focus on Caesar’s activities in Egypt (48‒47 BCE). Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies. CCN 22568
Selections in Latin from Caesar & Cicero. By reviewing morphology, syntax, & vocabulary, you will improve your mastery of Latin, and learn to read prose with understanding & enjoyment.
Selections from Caesar and Cicero with the aim of learning to read Latin with understanding and enjoyment. Review of morphology, syntax, and vocabulary to improve reading facility. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies.
An introduction to the Latin of Cicero and Caesar, two of the greatest writers of Latin prose literature and leading actors in the dramatic fall of the Roman Republic, coupled with grammar review and exercises designed to develop and strengthen your Latin reading. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies.
In this course we will focus on reading in Latin extensive selections from Vergil’s Aeneid.
Extensive readings from Virgil's Aeneid in Latin, combined with grammar review to introduce you to reading Latin poetry with understanding and enjoyment. Course grades will be based on three midterm exams plus assignments and quizzes. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Historical Studies.
An opportunity to read in Latin extensive selections from Vergil's Aeneid, with support for learning about Vergil's language and meter, and also the broader historical and literary questions that the poem raises. Meets L&S Breadth for Arts & Literature.
An introduction to the short poems of Catullus and the Odes of Horace, read in Latin.
Reading in Latin of selected poems by Catullus and Horace. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature. CCN 26205
An introduction to the short poems of Catullus and the Odes of Horace, read in Latin.
In this class we will read extensive selections from all four books of Vergil’s strangely compelling poem about farming. Influenced by both Hesiod and Lucretius, the poem is deeply emotional at times and often probes the connections between humans and the natural world, while also reflecting on philosophy, mythology, and contemporary history. The focus will be on reading the Latin text, but we will also read and discuss modern scholarship. There will be a short writing assignment early on, and a longer paper near the end of the semester, plus regular quizzes, a midterm, and a final exam.
Reading of Lucretius' poem De rerum natura, part in Latin and its entirety in English translation. Discussion of the poem and of contemporary critical interpretations of it. Fulfills L&S Breadth in Arts & Literature or Philosophy
Read in Latin the love poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, and explore the wide range of poetry written in elegiac couplets.
Readings in Latin from the second half of the Aeneid.
Study of a selection of the *Letters* of the younger Seneca.
Investigate the world of ancient natural philosophers in Latin scientific texts of the 1st century CE. We'll read excerpts (in Latin) from Seneca & Pliny the Elder, especially meteorology, geology, & anthropology, with excursions into astronomy & medicine.
The proseminar provides experience of the tools of advanced research in classical texts and gives the student a basic understanding of the sources, materials, and techniques related to the documentary evidence that underlies a great proportion of classical scholarship.
Study of tools for advanced research in ancient Greek and Latin textual evidence.
An introduction to the general literature of classical philology, to methods of research, and to textual criticism.
A sequence of readings and lectures on Greek literature.
Survey of Greek Literature (part 2)
A sequence of readings and lectures on Greek literature.
A sequence of readings and lectures on Greek literature, from the late 5th century BCE to the Roman period. Authors covered will include: Herodotus, Thucydides, Lysias, Demosthenes, Menander (Dyskolos), Plato (Gorgias), Aristotle (Rhetoric), Callimachus,Theocritus, Apollonius, Plutarch (Lives of Theseus, Antony), Lucian (Death of Peregrinus), St John's Gospel, Heliodorus. Each week about 1000 lines of poetry or 30 pages of prose will be assigned (to be read in Greek).
Part one of a two-part survey of literature in Latin from Roman antiquity.
Survey of Latin literature, from Plautus to Ovid.
Survey of Republican to early imperial literature
Second half of year-long survey of Latin literature.
This is the second part of the graduate survey of Latin literature.
Selected readings in the canon of 20th-century theory, coupled with examples of classical scholarship that more or less self-consciously put these theories to work.
Introduction to basic methods of literary analysis and interpretation, and study of particular critical approaches of significance for the understanding of Classical literature. Close reading of selected passages of Greek and Latin will be emphasized.
Plato's "Laws" has long stood in the shadow of its more celebrated predecessor, the "Republic." In recent years, however, scholarly interest in the work has been surging. While taking recent scholarship into account, this seminar will focus on making sense of the "Laws" in its own terms as well as in relation to the "Republic." What did Plato seek to achieve in writing this later work? Who is he writing for? Is the work a utopia? A practical guide? A blend of the two? Is it a meditation on law and law-giving? On social control of culture more generally? If it is all of these things and more, how are its themes connected?
An exploration of aspects of Greek Epigraphy from the 8th century BCE to the Roman Imperial period
An introduction to Greek papyrology, the principal aim being to develop the skills necessary to edit and interpret papyrological texts.
A study of the interplay of mythical thinking and formal literary expression in texts of all kinds in the Greco-Roman world.
Lucretius’ De rerum natura is a provocative and absorbing poem. In this seminar, we will try to come to grips with some of the questions it raises, while familiarizing ourselves with basic aspects of the poem and its study.
Reading and discussion of Statius' Achilleid and Silvae.
In the current return to formalism, the humanities have seen a re-evaluation of poetic form in terms of its capacity for unruly, queer ways of being and becoming, or unbecoming. The unsettling geometries of poetic form—its breaks and cuts, as well as its power of obstruction through repetition, congestion, expansion, and contraction—create a potential for resistance or willfulness, or wild escapes from meaning. In this seminar we will familiarize ourselves with various radical formalisms through conversations with various guests who will send us a short chapter beforehand to discuss in class. The guests will be: Lucy Alford, Stephen Best, Tom Geue, Sean Gurd, Laura Jansen, Sarah Nooter, Ellis Neyra, Sarah Olsen, Victoria Rimell, Victoria Wohl. The assignment of each week will thus include primary readings (in Greek, Latin, and English) relevant to the guest’s chapter and theoretical secondary readings helpful to understand and discuss the particular approaches or angles privileged by the guest.
Focusing on a selection of texts and events from the early to the later Roman empire this seminar will investigate forms of communal decisions on matters “religious.”
This seminar will focus on human experiences of and uses of the forest in the Mediterranean world of the classical period.
An introduction to the genre of Roman comedy, with special focus on representations of power within the household.
An exploration of ideas of crisis and disaster—psychological and ecological—in Euripides’ Hippolytus and Bacchae, their reception, and various trends in critical theory.
In this seminar, we will read substantial portions of Herodotus’ Histories, combined with other texts and traditions with which he was in conversation. Assuming Herodotus’ capacious, pre-disciplinary, and experimental text, we will explore his many genres and interlocutors.
The four elements played a fundamental role in ancient Greek thought across all genres and discourses. Like the air we breathe, the elements are so ubiquitous in ancient texts as to largely escape notice. But precisely this ubiquity makes them productive objects of study in their own right and media through which to access the thought-world of the Greeks. From the sea as a space of commerce and colonization to Hesiod’s divine and well-worked earth, from the fires of Aetna (or of love) to the animating breath of air, the elements oscillate between matter and metaphor, organizing ancient ways of thinking and being.
In this seminar will look at the elements both collectively (e.g. in medicine and philosophy) and individually, investigating the unique associations of each. We will follow water from liquid to solid and from the wine-dark sea to rivers and raindrops, exploring its paradigmatic fluidity of form and affordance. We will consider earth as Gaia, arable land, and political territory, but also as clay, dirt, and stone, and as the mysterious interior space of Plato’s chora. Our exploration of fire will encompass volcanoes, sacrificial fires and funeral pyres, and the cosmic “fire ever-living” of Heraclitus. Finally, air provides atmosphere, both meteorological and aesthetic, and a medium for diverse beings (including clouds, birds, ghosts, images, words, gods and daimones); its association with the soul also makes it the privileged element of life itself. Bringing together a diverse set of readings, both ancient and modern (and encouraging students to propose their own texts and topics), the seminar will use the elements as a way to explore the complex interrelation between things and words, physics and metaphysics, the natural world and its theorization. Students without knowledge of ancient Greek are welcome.
In this class you will improve your confidence and facility with the Latin language by practicing using it as a means of expression. Graduate-level knowledge of Latin required.
This graduate level seminar will explore mortuary archaeology in the Aegean and Greek worlds from the prehistoric to historic periods.
Advanced topics in Greek and/or Roman archaeology.
An in-depth treatment of the site of Mycenae, its environs, and its regional, interregional, and international contexts. Specific topics will include themes and material from both the prehistoric and historic periods of occupation, as well as the historiography of the site and its excavations.
This graduate seminar explores the Mediterranean world beyond the city from prehistory to the Roman period, with special emphasis on the first millennium BCE. Topics covered include: the rural/urban divide in ancient and modern thought; rural economies, labor regimes, and markets; property, land tenure, and borders; sanctuaries and festivals; and gender and class distinctions in the countryside. We will interrogate how new archaeological fieldwork, paleoenvironmental studies, epigraphy, ethnographic analogy, and comparative approaches drawn from other world regions can contribute to our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean countryside, with an eye to both interpretive challenges and opportunities.
Supervised teaching of lower division Greek, Latin, or Classics or of discussion sections in Classics.
Supervised teaching of lower division Greek, Latin, or Classics or of discussion sections in Classics. Two semesters normally required for Ph.D. candidates.
Supervised teaching of lower division Greek, Latin, or Classics or of discussion sections in Classics. Two semesters normally required for Ph.D. candidates.
Supervised teaching of lower division Greek, Latin, or Classics or of discussion sections in Classics. Two semesters normally required for Ph.D. candidates.
This course focuses on pedagogy for the teaching of Classics and the pre-modern world more broadly. The course will balance practical help for GSIs in their first semester of teaching with consideration on the larger questions raised by teaching antiquity.
Seminar in problems of teaching. Required for all new graduate student instructors.
Seminar in problems of teaching. Required for all new graduate student instructors.
A workshop-style class for grad students beginning to teach at UCB. Will cover both language classes and classes where everything is read in translation.