CLASSGEN 6N:
Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (DRAMA 12N)
Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
CLASSGEN 9:
Greek and Latin Roots of English
Goal is to improve vocabulary, comprehension of written English, and standardized test scores through learning the Greek and Latin components of English. Focus is on patterns and processes in the formation of the lexicon. Terminology used in medicine, business, education, law, and humanities; introduction to principles of language history and etymology. Greek or Latin not required.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
CLASSGEN 18:
Greek Mythology
The heroic and divine in the literature, mythology, and culture of archaic Greece. Interdisciplinary approach to the study of individuals and society. Illustrated lectures. Readings in translation of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and the poets of lyric and tragedy.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
CLASSGEN 22:
Technologies of Civilization: Writing, Number, and Money
The technological keys to the growth of civilization that enabled the creation of complex societies and enhanced human cognition. The role of cognition in shaping history and the role of history in shaping cognition. Global perspective, emphasizing the Western tradition and its ancient Greek roots.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 24N:
Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos
Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspired by Sappho in ancient and modern times, and composers who put her poetry to music.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
CLASSGEN 81:
Philosophy and Literature (COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENGEN 181, GERGEN 181, HUMNTIES 181, ITALGEN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVGEN 181)
Required gateway course for Philosophical and Literary Thought; crosslisted in departments sponsoring the Philosophy and Literature track: majors should register in their home department; non-majors may register in any sponsoring department. Introduction to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Issues may include authorship, selfhood, truth and fiction, the importance of literary form to philosophical works, and the ethical significance of literary works. Texts include philosophical analyses of literature, works of imaginative literature, and works of both philosophical and literary significance. Authors may include Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Borges, Beckett, Barthes, Foucault, Nussbaum, Walton, Nehamas, Pavel, and Pippin.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
CLASSGEN 119:
Gender and Power in Ancient Rome
Ideals, norms, and transgressions of behavior. Masculinity and femininity in founding legends and public rituals; the ambiguous status of vestal virgins; the masculinity of the Roman Forum; the spatial logic of Roman prostitution; gendered accounts of good and bad emperors in ancient texts. Practices of gender and power in life and death, public and private space, religion, spectacles, and sex in the urban landscape of ancient Rome
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
CLASSGEN 123:
Urban Sustainabilty: Long-Term Archaeological Perspectives (CLASSGEN 223, URBANST 115)
Comparative and archaeological view of urban design and sustainability. How fast changing cities challenge human relationships with nature. Innovation and change, growth, industrial development, the consumption of goods and materials. Five millennia of city life including Near Eastern city states, Graeco-Roman antiquity, the Indus Valley, and the Americas.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 130:
Singers of Tales: Ancient and Contemporary Epic in Action
How epic reflects and molds the thinking of its audiences and practitioners in many parts of the world today. The content and methods of epic performance in Egypt, Central Asia, north and central India, and among the Nyanga of Africa. Emphasis is on the aesthetic and ethnographic: that is, on the epic as crafted, meaning-rich performances, and on its role in the everyday life of common people in contemporary non-Western cultural areas.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
CLASSGEN 143:
Second Sophistic Science (CLASSGEN 243)
Scientific works from the Roman Empire. Focus is on how such works can be understood within the wider context of the Greco-Roman civilization of the Roman Empire, not only of Roman imperial science but also of Roman imperial civilization as a whole. Readings depend on student interests but may begin with Vitruvius, Nicomachus, Galen, and Ptolemy. Readings in translation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
CLASSGEN 154:
Social Power: The Law and the State, a Comparative Study of Ancient Legal Systems (CLASSGEN 354)
For ancient history majors and those interested in the history of law. Ancient Mediterranean legal systems, from ancient Egypt and the Near East to Greece and Rome. Focus is on ancient documents including the Code of Hammurabi, Egyptian sale contracts, as well as analysis of ancient law such as Maine's Ancient Law, and Weber. The development of the law; solutions in ancient societies to the common problems of crime, contract, inheritance, marriage, and the family; and the enforcement of property rights.
Last offered: Winter 2004
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
CLASSGEN 160:
Directed Readings (Undergraduate)
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barchiesi, A. (PI);
Ceserani, G. (PI);
Clayton, B. (PI);
Devine, A. (PI);
Gleason, M. (PI);
Kaesser, C. (PI);
Lain, N. (PI);
Martin, R. (PI);
Maxmin, J. (PI);
McCall, M. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Netz, R. (PI);
Nightingale, A. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Peponi, A. (PI);
Porta, F. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Saller, R. (PI);
Scheidel, W. (PI);
Shanks, M. (PI);
Shearin, W. (PI);
Stephens, S. (PI);
Trimble, J. (PI);
Gleason, M. (GP)
CLASSGEN 163:
Texts in History: Classics from Greece to Rome (DRAMA 161R, HUMNTIES 161)
Priority to students in the Humanities honors program. Ancient texts situated in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Readings include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Thucydides Peloponnesian War,, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's Aeneid, Seneca's Trojan Women and Agamemnon, and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 174:
Martyrdom in the Ancient World (RELIGST 174)
Jewish, Christian, and pagan narratives of persecution and resistance. Emphasis is on ancient documents in translation. Competing agendas of parties involved, group dynamics, individual motivation, symbolic violence, and the body as a locus of power and control.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 176:
Majors Seminar: Two Epics and Five Systems of Knowledge
Required of Classics majors and minors in junior or senior year; students contemplating honors should take this course in junior year. The ancient world's most important contributions through comparison of two epics, the Iliad and the Aeneid, and four ancient systems of knowledge: rhetoric, philosophy, natural science/medicine, and law. The fifth system of knowledge is classics itself.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 199:
Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 2-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barchiesi, A. (PI);
Ceserani, G. (PI);
Clayton, B. (PI);
Devine, A. (PI);
Gleason, M. (PI);
Kaesser, C. (PI);
Lain, N. (PI);
Martin, R. (PI);
Maxmin, J. (PI);
McCall, M. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Netz, R. (PI);
Nightingale, A. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Peponi, A. (PI);
Porta, F. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Saller, R. (PI);
Scheidel, W. (PI);
Shanks, M. (PI);
Shearin, W. (PI);
Stephens, S. (PI);
Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSGEN 207A:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Literature of the Roman Republic
First course in a required two-year sequence. Focus is on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years. Focus is on translation, textual criticism, genre, the role of Greece in shaping Roman literature, and oral versus written discourse.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 207B:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Augustan Age Latin
Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Texts of Augustan literature required by the graduate syllabus, emphasizing poetry and major authors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 207C:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Imperial Latin
Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 20N:
Mapping the Mediterranean
Preference to freshman. How the Mediterranean has been represented, visually and textually, and the contexts in which such representations evolved. The roles of polytheistic and monotheistic religions in cartography. From the ancient period including Homer's Iliad to the times of Gerhardus Mercator, 1512-94. How the time span from Homer to Mercator reveals the changes that make it necessary to examine the idea of the map.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 223:
Urban Sustainabilty: Long-Term Archaeological Perspectives (CLASSGEN 123, URBANST 115)
Comparative and archaeological view of urban design and sustainability. How fast changing cities challenge human relationships with nature. Innovation and change, growth, industrial development, the consumption of goods and materials. Five millennia of city life including Near Eastern city states, Graeco-Roman antiquity, the Indus Valley, and the Americas.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 241:
Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship
How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist scholarship gave way to professional archaeologists, historians, and philologists? Focus is on key works in the history of classics, such as Erasmus and Winckelmann, in their scholarly, cultural, and political contexts, and recent critical trends in intellectual history and the history of disciplines.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 243:
Second Sophistic Science (CLASSGEN 143)
Scientific works from the Roman Empire. Focus is on how such works can be understood within the wider context of the Greco-Roman civilization of the Roman Empire, not only of Roman imperial science but also of Roman imperial civilization as a whole. Readings depend on student interests but may begin with Vitruvius, Nicomachus, Galen, and Ptolemy. Readings in translation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
CLASSGEN 260:
Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ;
Barchiesi, A. (PI);
Ceserani, G. (PI);
Clayton, B. (PI);
Devine, A. (PI);
Gleason, M. (PI);
Kaesser, C. (PI);
Lain, N. (PI);
Martin, R. (PI);
Maxmin, J. (PI);
McCall, M. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Netz, R. (PI);
Nightingale, A. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Peponi, A. (PI);
Porta, F. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Saller, R. (PI);
Scheidel, W. (PI);
Shanks, M. (PI);
Shearin, W. (PI);
Stephens, S. (PI);
Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSGEN 305:
Pleasure in Greek Thought
The conceptualization of pleasure in Greek culture; the relationship between individual and public/political experiences and representations of pleasure; intersections among aesthetics, politics, and sexuality in Greek thought.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 310A:
Inscribed Lives: Roman Epigraphy in Context
How to read Roman (mostly Latin) inscriptions. The use of inscriptions in studying Roman history. Sources include texts such as the Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Tabula Siarensis. Archaeological contexts; electronic and other resources. Research projects on a theme for which inscriptions provide main evidence. Guest speakers include John Bodel, Brown University.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 310B:
Inscribed Lives: Roman Epigraphy in Context
Continuation of 310A. Prerequisite: CLASSGEN 310A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 332:
Pragmatogony: Archaeological Perspectives on the Origins of Things
Relationships with artifacts and the material world; design and making, innovation and cultural change. Design, manufacture, distribution, and consumption of goods. Sources include philosophy, design studies, sociology and history of technology, science studies, art history, and anthropological archaeology. Case studies from early agricultural societies and Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
CLASSGEN 354:
Social Power: The Law and the State, a Comparative Study of Ancient Legal Systems (CLASSGEN 154)
For ancient history majors and those interested in the history of law. Ancient Mediterranean legal systems, from ancient Egypt and the Near East to Greece and Rome. Focus is on ancient documents including the Code of Hammurabi, Egyptian sale contracts, as well as analysis of ancient law such as Maine's Ancient Law, and Weber. The development of the law; solutions in ancient societies to the common problems of crime, contract, inheritance, marriage, and the family; and the enforcement of property rights.
Last offered: Winter 2004
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 360:
Dissertation Research in Classics
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barchiesi, A. (PI);
Ceserani, G. (PI);
Clayton, B. (PI);
Devine, A. (PI);
Gleason, M. (PI);
Kaesser, C. (PI);
Lain, N. (PI);
Martin, R. (PI);
Maxmin, J. (PI);
McCall, M. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Netz, R. (PI);
Nightingale, A. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Peponi, A. (PI);
Porta, F. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Saller, R. (PI);
Scheidel, W. (PI);
Shanks, M. (PI);
Shearin, W. (PI);
Stephens, S. (PI);
Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSGEN 45N:
Conversations: Catullus, Virgil, and their Influence on the Prose and Poetry of Robert Frost
Preference to freshmen. Poems by Catullus and Virgil (in Latin or in translation) and by Robert Frost. Why Frost kept the poetry of Catullus close at hand throughout his life; the relationship between a writer¿s reading and writing; and how emotional experience can be transmuted into verbal at. Sound, rhythm, meter, the order of words, artful construction of short poems, and the dramatic function of conversation. Poetry recitation and creative writing.
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 48N:
Ethical Wisdom in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Preference to freshmen. What sorts of ethical values are found in Greek tragedies? Modes of ethical wisdom promoted and enacted in Greek tragedy and philosophy in the classical period emphasizing modes of wisdom that reflected traditional Greek religion and traditional social and political values in democratic Athens.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 60:
The Life and Death of a Roman City: Pompeii
The development of Pompeii from its early settlements to its luxurious urban center. Focus is on aspects of daily life such as family, slavery, economy, women, politics and religion. The décor of private houses and civic buildings, including the imperial display of power. The impact of Pompeii on the modern world, including art, architecture, and urban design.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 66:
Herodotus
For Ancient History field of study majors; others by consent of instructor. Close reading technique. Historical background to the Greco-Persian Wars; ancient views of empire, culture, and geography; the wars and their aftermath; ancient ethnography and historiography, including the first narrative of ancient Egypt.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 802:
TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Barchiesi, A. (PI);
Ceserani, G. (PI);
Clayton, B. (PI);
Devine, A. (PI);
Gleason, M. (PI);
Kaesser, C. (PI);
Lain, N. (PI);
Martin, R. (PI);
Maxmin, J. (PI);
McCall, M. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Netz, R. (PI);
Nightingale, A. (PI);
Ober, J. (PI);
Parker, G. (PI);
Peponi, A. (PI);
Porta, F. (PI);
Rehm, R. (PI);
Saller, R. (PI);
Scheidel, W. (PI);
Shanks, M. (PI);
Shearin, W. (PI);
Stephens, S. (PI);
Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSGEN 94:
Ethics of Pleasure
The concept of pleasure in Greek culture, thought, poetry, and philosophy. How physical, sensual, and intellectual types of pleasure are described and defined in Greek texts and visual arts. The relationship between individual and public/political experiences of pleasure; the intersection between aesthetics and ethics.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas
CLASSGEN 101:
Stoics and Epicureans: Explorations in Embodied Philosophical Practice
Two of the main philosophical schools of Hellenistic and Roman times, Epicureanism and Stoicism, focusing on these philosophies as practices, especially bodily practices. Their shared emphasis on the body and the physical self as an inevitable concern in the quest for freedom from disturbance. The body and its needs as the central vehicle for demonstrating the success of each philosophy's account of the natural world. Ancient bodily practices and modern receptions of these practices.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSGEN 127:
Byzantine Culture and Society: An Introduction
The social and cultural life of the Byzantine Empire, 4th-14th centuries. Byzantium¿s place in time and space at the threshold between Asia and Europe; the state and its polity; the city and urban life; love, marriage, and sexuality; education and literature. Readings from Byzantine sources in English translation, visual materials, and secondary bibliography.
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 205A:
The Semantics of Grammar
Supplements CLASSLAT/CLASSGRK 275. Introduction to the grammatical encoding of semantic and pragmatic meaning. 205A: morphology-semantics interface (gender, tense, aspect, case). 205B: syntax-pragmatics interface (Latin word order). Begins in Autumn Quarter and continues through 5th week of Winter Quarter.
| Units: 2
CLASSGEN 205B:
The Semantics of Grammar
Supplements CLASSLAT/CLASSGRK 275. Introduction to the grammatical encoding of semantic and pragmatic meaning. 205A: morphology-semantics interface (gender, tense, aspect, case). 205B: syntax-pragmatics interface (Latin word order). Begins in Autumn Quarter and continues through 5th week of Winter Quarter.
| Units: 2
CLASSGEN 208A:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Archaic Greek
Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 208B:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Classical Greek
Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 208C:
Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Hellenistic and Late Greek
Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 220:
Family, Gender, and Production in Ancient Rome (HISTORY 311A)
Seminar. The household as the basic unit of production in Rome in the context of family relations and ideologies of gender. Methodological challenges of doing social and economic history from literary, epigraphic, and literary texts. Demography of family and kinship in ancient Rome. Ideologies of gender and family roles and their influence on economic production. Economic theories of the family and human capital.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 225:
Metamorphoses of Dido
Focus is on Dido in Virgil; the complexities of her characterization and its bearing on an overall view of the poem, her scant previous appearances, and intertextual models. The continuing fascination with Dido by later authors from Ovid to the 2oth century. Possible topics include Latin and Christian authors, medieval rewritings, Chaucer, Marlowe, and Dido in music and painting.
| Units: 3-5
CLASSGEN 235:
Petronius and Apuleius
Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses represent the surviving Latin novel. Differences between them. Readings include Petronius' dinner at Trimalchio's and Apuleius' love story of Cupid and Psyche. Philological analysis, history of the novel, and social history of the Roman empire. The afterlife of these texts. Recent scholarship.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 245:
Roman Receptions of Hellenistic Poetry
The beginnings of Latin literature in Greek literature, primarily in texts transmitted through imperial courts of the Greek east such as Alexandria and Pergamum. Aesthetic, formal, and theoretical aspects of transmission; cultural contexts of reception, including Ennius and Lucilius, Catullus and Cicero, Horace and Vergil, and Propertius and Ovid.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 314:
Fragments
The reconstruction and interpretation of fragmentary texts; how to deal with Latin poetry in fragments, emphasizing the Republican and Augustan ages. Sources include anthologies by E. Courtney and Adrian Hollis. Techniques of analysis including philology, textual criticism, and questions about Greek models. The importance of fragments for literary and cultural history.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 324:
Choral Poetry and Performance
Representative readings of choral lyric poetry. Interpretation of the most complex choral discourse developed in archaic and classical Greece. The cultural context in which choral performances took place in the Greek polis.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 329:
Words as Colors: Epigrammatic Poetry in Byzantium
Byzantine secular and religious epigrammatic poetry and its major representatives in the 9th-14th centuries. Based on Byzantine poems in the original. Transformations of the Hellenistic epigram in a Greek Christian society. Emphasis is on such topics as patrons and authors, material presence of the word, generic mixture and deviation, structure and narrative, poetics and rhetoricity, and metrics.
| Units: 4-5
CLASSGEN 352:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Competing 20th-century approaches. Emphasis is on new research and how to compose research papers. Topics include: narratology, reception, gender, poetics, time and space, mythology, material culture, hellenization, romanization, orientalism, allusion and intertextuality, and emotions.
| Units: 4-5
