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Course Schedule—Spring 2006

Classics

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CLASSICS

040.106

ELEMENTARY ANCIENT GREEK (4) Jones   Limit 20  Prereq: 040.105 or Perm. Req’dThis course provides a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the study of ancient Greek. Emphasis in the second semester is on syntax and reading. Credit is given only upon completion of a year's work. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory.

Sec. 01

MTW 10
W 4
Plus one additional hour

040.108

ELEMENTARY LATIN (3.5) Webber/Perriello    Limit 20 per section   Prereq: 040.107 or Perm. Req’d.  Course provides a comprehensive,intensive introduction to the study of Latin for new students as well as a systematic review for those students with a background in Latin. Emphasis in the second semester is on syntax and reading. Credit is given only upon completion of a year's work.
May not be taken satisfactory/ unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

02

MTW 9

MTW 10

040.132 (H)

THE USES OF MYTH IN CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME (3) Valladares  Limit 30    How did the Greeks and Romans approach mythology?  Through reading ancient authors we consider how myths function in literature; by looking at ancient art we examine the visual forms these tales received.

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:30, F 10:30-12 ThF 10:30-12

040.206 (H)

INTERMEDIATE ANCIENT GREEK (3) Coccagna   Limit 20   Prereq: 040.105-106 or equivalent.   Reading ability in classical Greek is developed through a study of various authors, primarily Homer.

Sec. 01

MTW 10

040.208 (H)

INTERMEDIATE LATIN (3) Driver  Limit 20   Prereq: 040.107-108 or equivalent    Although emphasis is still placed on development of rapid comprehension, readings and discussions introduce student to study of Latin literature. Readings this term will be from Sallust.

Sec. 01

MTW 11

040.211 (H)

MAGICIANS, HEALERS AND HOLY MEN IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD (3) Renberg   Limit 18 15    Course examines magic, divination, and other unconventional religious phenomena in the Greco-Roman world, using such sources as curse tablets, magical papyri, amulets, and biographies of miracle-workers.

Sec. 01

MTW 12

040.306 (H)

ADVANCED ANCIENT GREEK (3) Detienne   Limit 8   Prereq: 040.205-206 or equivalent     Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students.  This semester's focus is on Herodotus, Book VI.  Same course as 040.706

 Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.307 (H)

ADVANCED LATIN/LATIN PROSE (3) Roller Limit 20 Prereq: 040.207-208 or equivalent. Course aims to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language.  Intensive reading of Latin texts, with the usual attention to grammar, idiom, translation, etc.  Specific offerings vary from year to year.  This semester's focus will be selections from Apuleius' Metamorphoses.

Sec. 01

TTh 4:30-5:45pm T 4-6pm plus 1 addt'l hr.

040.344 (H)
              (W)

EARLY CHRISTIANITY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS (3) Thompson Limit 15    This course examines the role of texts and literacy in establishing and propagating Christianity and Christian identity in the first four centuries C.E.  All readings in English translation.

Sec. 01

W 2:30-5

010.145 (H)

THE ARTS OF ROME (3) Koortbojian Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

MTW 12

040.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

040.520

HONORS RESEARCH

   

040.600

EPIGRAPHY AND RELIGION Renberg   Limit 10   This course will explore the numerous types of Greek and Latin inscriptions that reveal the religious beliefs and practices of the Greeks and Romans.

 Sec. 01

T 2-4

040.602

COMPARATIVE HISTORICITIES: NATION, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MYTHIDEOLOGY Detienne    Limit 8 Nation and historicity; historiography and mythideology.  In ancient Israel, ancient Greece and Rome, contemporary France and Europe.  Readings: Paul Ricoeur, Martin Heidegger (seminars 1933-35), Pierre Nora, Gerard Noiriel, and others.  Cross-listed with Anthropology, History, Humanities Center, Philosophy, and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

W 3-5

040.604

LATIN EPIC Roller/Valladares  Limit 10  Intensive reading of selections of Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Statius' Thebaiad; also, examination of key scholarly debates surrounding these texts and the epic genre in general.

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

040.706

READING ANCIENT GREEK PROSE Detienne    Limit (Same as 040.306)   Prereq: Greek proficiency This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources.  This semester's focus is on Herodotus, Book VI.

Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.707

READING LATIN PROSE Roller    Limit 10  (Same as 040.307) This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. This semester's focus is on selections from Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Course added 11/30/05

Sec. 01

TTh 4:30-5:45pm T 4-6pm plus 1 addt'l hr.

010.666

THE ROMAN PROTRAIT   Koortbojian

Cross-listed with History of Art.

Sec. 01

M 3-5

212.683

PHILOLOGY BECOMES PHILOSOPHY: THE LAMIA OF ANGELA POLIZIANO (1454-94) Celenza (see Romance Languages for full course description) Course added 01/17/06

Sec. 01

T 3-5

040.802

INDEPENDENT STUDY

   

040.815

DISSERTATION RESEARCH

   

 

 

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