printer friendly pageCLASSICS 330: Satire
The concept of "satire" as a social and literary force will be examined with equal attention given to examples in Greek and Latin. Texts to be analyzed include Greek iambos from the 7th century BC to early Byzantine times; selected portions of Old Comedy; Herodas; Lucian; Lucilius; Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Persius, and Martial. Particular attention will be paid to authorial self-fashioning; limitations on verbal abuse; and ideas of propriety. All texts to be read in the original languages, with supplementary readings in English and on occasion French, German or Italian.
Last offered: Winter 2016
CLASSICS 331: Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship (HISTORY 303F)
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
CLASSICS 332: Continuity in Ancient Science and Philosophy (PHIL 363)
2 unit option is for PhD students only.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Code, A. (PI)
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Netz, R. (PI)
CLASSICS 335: Ekphrasis in Antiquity
What is "ekphrasis"? How was it theorized and practiced in antiquity? Description, interpretation, and the senses; The relationship between the verbal and the visual in antiquity from Homer to Philostratus.
Last offered: Spring 2015
CLASSICS 336: Plato on Eros and Beauty (PHIL 306C)
We read Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus; topics: love, beauty, language (oral and written). Graduate seminar, but open to seniors.
Last offered: Spring 2015
CLASSICS 337: The Second Sophistic
The class will introduce students to the most important aspects of the Second Sophistic: linguistic and literary classicism, rhetoric and performance, typical literary forms. Particular emphasis will be on the social and political background of the movement (Greek identity, social distinction, sophists and gender). For students who wish to take the class for 4 or 5 units, part of the readings will be in the original Greek.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
CLASSICS 340: Rethinking the History of Lyric I : Geography, Politics, and the Lyric Imaginary
Analysis of key questions concerning the social and cultural role of elegiac, iambic, and melic poetry and performance in their divergent political environments throughout the Hellenic world, from the 8th c. BC to the beginning of the 4th c. BC. Ancient theoretical discourses on these issues, especially philosophy, will be included. The Lyric Mapping Project will be employed as a primary tool in the exploration (
https://classics.stanford.edu/projects/lyric-mapping-project.) Pairing with Part II in the Spring is recommended but optional
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Peponi, A. (PI)
CLASSICS 341: Rethinking the History of Lyric II : Selfhood
How is selfhood conceptualized in the ancient world and what is the contribution of lyric genres in shaping notions of the ¿self ¿? An approach to these questions will be enabled by intensive reading in theories about both ancient and modern lyric. Ancient lyric poetry of both the archaic and the classical period will regularly be juxtaposed with modern and modernist lyricism. Some philosophical writings, especially Plato, will also be included. Pairing with Part I in the Winter is recommended for classicists but optional.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Peponi, A. (PI)
CLASSICS 342: Later Latin Literature
Explorations in post-classical Latin, both prose and verse. Detailed readings of Ausonius, 'Egeria', Jerome, Ammianus and other key authors of the late antique period. Consideration of new genres and of the evolution of literary Latin. Attention to cultural milieux, especially the emergence of Christianity and of regional identities, as well as continuity and change in relation to Latin literature of the late republic and early empire.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Parker, G. (PI)
CLASSICS 352: Doing Business in Classical Antiquity: Mediterranean Exchange (ARCHLGY 327)
Exchange was everywhere in the Mediterranean, from the individual household to the state. Yet the specific models by which goods changed hands were as varied as the ideas and values that moved alongside them. This seminar will explore theoretical approaches to commercial and non-commercial exchange, drawing primarily on the crucial but uneven bodies of archaeological evidence and historical sources in an effort to investigate the simple but hardly straightforward question of how business was undertaken in the Greco-Roman world.
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