printer friendly pageCLASSHIS 235B: Ancient War (HISTORY 311F)
Continuation of 235A. Seminar on Greco-Roman warfare, looking at why and how wars were fought, their causes and consequences, and the experience and expense of fighting. Emphasis on comparative approaches, juxtaposing ancient Mediterranean war with warfare in other parts of the world, wars in earlier and later periods, and conflict among other species.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, I. (PI)
CLASSHIS 241: Ancient Justice: Trial and Judgment in Ancient Greece (CLASSHIS 141)
Focus is on the nature and mechanics of justice in Ancient Greece. Topics include the mythological origins of justice (Hesiod's
Theogony, Aeschylus'
Eumenides), the development of rhetoric and argumentation (Gorgias'
Encomium of Helen, Isocrates'
Helen, Aristotle's
Rhetoric), court speeches (Lysias'
Orations), aesthetic criticism (Aristophanes'
Frogs), and figurations of afterlife judgment (the Orphic Gold Tablets, Plato's
Republic and
Gorgias). Readings in English for undergraduates, and ancient Greek for graduate students.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Horky, P. (PI)
CLASSHIS 305: Ancient Numismatics
Graduate proseminar. Basic skills course required for ancient history graduate students; others by consent of instructor. Focus is on Greek and Roman coinage and monetary history; related material from the ancient Near East and Europe.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Scheidel, W. (PI)
CLASSHIS 332: High-Stakes Politics: Case Studies in Political Philosophy, Institutions, and Interests (POLISCI 231, POLISCI 331)
Normative political theory combined with positive political theory to better explain how major texts may have responded to and influenced changes in formal and informal institutions. Emphasis is on historical periods in which catastrophic institutional failure was a recent memory or a realistic possibility. Case studies include Greek city-states in the classical periodand the northern Atlantic community of the 17th and 18th centuries including upheavals in England and the American Revolutionary era.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ober, J. (PI)
;
Weingast, B. (PI)
CLASSHIS 333: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSHIS 133, HUMNTIES 321, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A)
Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ober, J. (PI)
CLASSHIS 37N: The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction (HISTORY 12N)
Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus'
Annals, Suetonius'
Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves'
I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSHIS 171: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
When Alexander the Great swept through and conquered the Persian empire at the end of the 4th century B.C., it touched off massive changes in the political and socioeconomic structure of the Mediterranean world. Focus is on the major developments in the history, culture, and economy of the Mediterranean world from these conquests of Alexander to the annexation of Egypt by Augustus in 30 B.C.E.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CLASSHIS 307: Introduction to Papyrology
Topics research methods, documentary and literary texts that survive and the history of their interpretation, paleography of Greek papyri, and interconnections between Greek and demotic source material.
CLASSHIS 312: Big Ancient History (HISTORY 311G)
How the shift away from thinking about European history in terms of a western civilization model toward embedding it in stories of how global history affects research and teaching on ancient Greece and Rome. Conventional, evolutionary, and global history narratives of the past 5,000 to 15,000 years and some new ideas about how Greco-Roman history might fit into different storylines.
CLASSHIS 365: The First Great Divergence: Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe and China
Divergences in long-term trends in state formation in E. and W. Eurasia after the fall of the Roman and Han empires: contexts, causes, and consequences. Students attend presentations of the Mellon Sawyer seminar. See
http://classics.stanford.edu/news/divergence.
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