printer friendly pageCLASSGEN 223: Urban Sustainability: 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: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Shanks, M. (PI)
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Krieger, A. (TA)
CLASSGEN 241: 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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ceserani, G. (PI)
CLASSGEN 253: Images of Women in Ancient China and Greece (CHINGEN 143, CHINGEN 243, CLASSGEN 153)
Representation of women in ancient Chinese and Greek texts. How men viewed women and what women had to say about themselves and their societies. Primary readings in poetry, drama, and didactic writings. Relevance for understanding modern concerns; use of comparison for discovering historical and cultural patterns.
Last offered: Winter 2013
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)
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Ceserani, G. (PI)
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Devine, A. (PI)
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Barchiesi, A. (PI)
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Ceserani, G. (PI)
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Devine, A. (PI)
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Gleason, M. (PI)
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Jimenez, A. (PI)
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Klopacz, J. (PI)
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Krebs, C. (PI)
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Martin, R. (PI)
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Maxmin, J. (PI)
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McCall, M. (PI)
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Morris, I. (PI)
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Netz, R. (PI)
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Nightingale, A. (PI)
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Ober, J. (PI)
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Parker, G. (PI)
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Peponi, A. (PI)
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Rehm, R. (PI)
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Saller, R. (PI)
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Scheidel, W. (PI)
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Shanks, M. (PI)
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Stephens, S. (PI)
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Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSGEN 289: Imperishable Heroes and Unblemished Goddesses: Myth, Ritual, and Epic in Ancient Iran (CLASSGEN 189, RELIGST 209E, RELIGST 309E)
Designed as a broad introduction to the world of ancient Iran, students will be introduced to the Indo-European inheritance in ancient Iranian culture; the shared world of ritual, religion, and mythology between Zoroastrianism in Iran and Vedic Hinduism in India; and to the contours of early Zoroastrian religious thought. We will also survey mythoepic literature in translation from the archaic Avesta through the late antique Zoroastrian Middle Persian corpus to the early medieval national epic of Iran, the Book of Kings of Ferdowsi.
Last offered: Spring 2013
CLASSGEN 300A: Gateways to Classics
This seminar focuses on skills involved in the detailed study of Greek and Latin texts. Emphasis on methodologies and approaches, with attention both to histories of the disciplines and to new developments. Assignments provide hands-on experience of research skills. Taught by various faculty members; readings to be assigned by faculty, meets five times per quarter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Parker, G. (PI)
CLASSGEN 311: Paleography of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts (DLCL 209, ENGLISH 209, HISTORY 309G, RELIGST 204)
Introductory course in the history of writing and of the book, from the late antique period until the advent of printing. Opportunity to learn to read and interpret medieval manuscripts through hands-on examination of original materials in Special Collections of Stanford Libraries as well as through digital images. Offers critical training in the reading of manuscripts for students from departments as diverse as Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, English, and the Division of Languages Cultures and Literatures.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Treharne, E. (PI)
CLASSGEN 312: The Ancient Sciences of Geography
What could ancient geography achieve? What could it not? And why the gap between the two? Focus is on understanding the goals and techniques of the ancient geographical sciences, spanning the spectrum between literature and mathematics. In ancient culture, how did space matter?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Netz, R. (PI)
CLASSGEN 335: Collecting in Antiquity
What is at stake with the phenomenon of collecting? Selected Latin texts provide the starting point: Cicero's "Verrine orations", the Elder Pliny's "Natural History" and Martial's 'Epigrams" (books 13 and 14). Is Cicero's prosecution of Verres really the origin of the modern debate about cultural property? (Miles, "Art as Plunder") In the second part of the course we shall consider some modern collections of ancient art (early modern "Wunderkammer"; Cantor Art Center; Getty Villa).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Parker, G. (PI)
CLASSGEN 336: Augustine on Memory, Time, and the Self
This course examines Augustine's "Confessions" as an autobiographical discourse. It investigates his theories of memory and of time and address different theories of the "self." How does memory and the passing of time affect the notion of the self? Does Augustine's "subjective" theory of time offer an identifiable self? Is the self constructed by narratives? We will locate these issues in their cultural context by investigating Christian and pagan discourses and practices in Late Antiquity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Nightingale, A. (PI)
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