printer friendly pageCLASSART 249: Roman Portraits and Persons (CLASSART 149)
From Republican verism to imperial types to changes in the tetrarchy and late antiquity. Interactions of portrait heads with stock bodies, the physical setting, and visual culture more broadly. The role of ancient ideas about representation, including physiognomy, biography, social position, ethnic identity and memory. How to assign dates; techniques; how to interpret contexts and meanings.
CLASSART 250: Cultural Heritage and Classical Antiquities
Comparative analysis of American and Italian cultural heritage practices concerning Greek and Roman antiquities. Themes include ethical, cultural, and legal situations of classical artifacts in American museums; constructions of the classical past in national contexts and the role of antiquities museums; and changing concepts of material relationships with the past. One-week field trip to Rome to compare installation and presentation practices in major museums.
CLASSART 300: Early Greece: Social Archaeology, 1100-700 B.C.E.
Archaeological and textual evidence for the transformation of Greek society. Economic, social, political, and cultural changes from the world of Mycenaean palaces to the small city states of the archaic period.
CLASSART 322: Reception and Literacy in Roman Art
Beyond a focus on artists and patrons: how Roman art was seen and understood by its contemporary viewers. Themes include memory, performance, gender, replication, and constructions of space. Goal is to draft a differentiated model of viewing and literacy, with attention to collective experience, hierarchy, access, and subversion.
CLASSART 323: Archaeology of the Roman Economy
Recent developments. Focus is on changing frameworks, including Mediterraneanization and concepts of growth; differences between historians' and archaeologists' interests and methods; problems of scale and integration; relationships of models, fieldwork design, and archaeological data. Case studies may include the olive oil industry; the marble trade and connections of art and economics; and the Roman army and its economic workings and impact.
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: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Porta, F. (PI)
CLASSGEN 16: Eureka! Archimedes and his Science
The legends and reality of the life of one of the most important scientists in history. Archimedes' major discoveries in pure and applied science. No background in Greek or science required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Netz, R. (PI)
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: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
CLASSGEN 22N: 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: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Netz, R. (PI)
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