040.106

ELEMENTARY ANCIENT GREEK (4) Driver   Limit 20   Course provides comprehensive, intensive introduction to study of ancient Greek.  First semester’s focus is morphology and vocabulary; second semester’s emphasis is syntax and reading.   Credit is given only upon completion of a year’s work.
Course may not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

MTW 10
Plus one additional hour TBA

040.108

ELEMENTARY LATIN (3.5) Phin/ Solez Limit 20 per section Course provides comprehensive, intensive introduction to study of Latin for new students as well as systematic review for students with background in Latin.  First semester’s emphasis is morphology and vocabulary; second semester’s focus is syntax and reading. Credit is given only upon completion of a year’s work. Course may not be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Sec. 01

02

MTW 9

MTW 10

040.206 (H)

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

Sec. 01

MTW 10

040.208 (H)

INTERMEDIATE LATIN (3) Perriello Limit 20 Prereqs: 040.107-108 or equivalent    Reading ability in Latin is developed through the study of various authors, primarily Cicero (Fall) and Vergil (Spring).

Sec. 01

MTW 11

040.306 (H)

ADVANCED ANCIENT GREEK (3) Detienne   Limit 10  Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students.  This semester’s focus is on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.          (Same course as 040.706) 

Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.307 (H)

ADVANCED LATIN/LATIN PROSE (3) Valladares   Limit 20 Prerequisites: 040.207-208 or equivalent   Course aims to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of Latin language. Intensive reading of Latin texts, with attention to grammar, idiom, translation, etc.  This semester’s focus will be Petronius, “The Satyricon.” 
(Same course as 040.707) 

Sec. 01

TW 4-5:30

040.348 (H)
             

THE WORLD OF HOMER (3) Shapiro Limit 35   The course will explore in depth the two epics, Iliad and Odyssey, as well as other early Greek poetry, in its historical, archaeological, and cultural setting.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

F 10:30-12

Th 10:30-12

Th 10:30-12

010.350 (H)

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE (3) Koortbojian  Limit 25    
Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

MTW 11

150.401 (H)
(W)

GREEK PHILOSOPHY: PLATO AND HIS PREDECESSORS (3) Bett Limit 35
Cross-listed with Philosophy

Sec. 01

MTW 1

040.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

040.520

HONORS RESEARCH

040.580

MASTER’S RESEARCH

040.605

THE ROMANS AND THEIR PAST Roller/ Koortbojian     Limit 10  This seminar, focusing on both monuments and texts, examines the ways in which Romans engaged and constructed their past in these two media.  Topics include the culture(s) of commemoration and monumentalization, ancestor portraiture, historiography and exemplarity, historical art, and the Roman’s sense of their own antiquity.  These topics are considered in light of recent theories of historical understanding.
Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

M 2-4 1-3

040.608

ANTHROPOLOGIES OF POLLUTION AND PURIFICATION:  FROM OEDIPUS OF THEBES TO THE PEOPLE OF KOSOVO Detienne
Limit 10   To be born impure.  Pure and impure ancestors.  Pollution and contamination.  The blood between pure and impure.  Readings of M. Douglas,
R. Parker, M. Grmek, Sacred Laws of Cyrene and Selinous.

Sec. 01

W 3-5

040.610

THE ART OF DESCRIPTION: EKPHRASIS IN GREECE AND ROME Shapiro/ Valladares  Limit 10 This seminar will examine in detail  representative examples of ekphrasis in Greek and Latin poetry along with relevant works of art from all periods of Antiquity. 
Cross-listed with History of Art

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

040.612

ANCIENT GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION Yatromanolakis Limit 10   Translating modern English prose into ancient Greek.  Emphasis on the Attic dialect.

Sec. 01

T 12-2

040.706

READING ANCIENT GREEK PROSE Detienne    Limit 10  This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources.  This semester’s focus is on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus. 
(Same course as 040.306) 

Sec. 01

W 12-2

040.707

READING LATIN PROSE Valladares  Limit 10  This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources.  This semester’s focus is on Petronius, “The Satyricon.”  (Same course as 040.307)

Sec. 01

TW 4-5:30

040.712

READING GREEK PHILOSOPHY Bett   Limit 10  Prereq: Two years of Greek or Perm. Req’d  A seminar devoted to close reading and analysis of fragments of the pre-Socratics in the original
Greek.
Cross-listed with Philosophy

Sec. 01

T 2-4

213.662

ADVOCACY: FÜRSPRACHE Campe
Limit 15   We will discuss instances of advocay – speaking/acting on behalf of someone before someone – in different areas: ancient rhetoric, legal and cultural theory, poetry and the novel.  The goal of the course is to develop an understanding of 'Fürsprache' as a basic feature of communication. Readings include Aristotle, Quintilian, Derrida, Rawles, Lacan, Austin, Hölderlin and Kafka. Readings and discussion in English.
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Political Science, and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Sec. 01

Th 3-5pm

040.802

INDEPENDENT STUDY

040.815

DISSERTATION RESEARCH