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Why does Egypt fascinate us? From Napoleon¿s invasion to Katy Perry¿s latest music video, we have interpreted ancient Egyptian history and mythology for centuries; in fact, this obsession dates back to the Egyptians themselves. This seminar explores Egyptomania from the Pharaonic period to the 20th century. Topics include: ancient Egypt, Greek historians, medieval Arabic scholars, hieroglyphic decipherment, 19th century travel, 20th century pop culture, and how historians have interpreted this past over the centuries.

(Formerly CLASSHIS 117.) The beginnings and development of historical writing in the ancient world. Emphasis on major classical historians and various models of history they invented, from local to imperial, military, cultural, biographical, world history and church history. Focus on themes of power, war, loss, growth and decline, as put by the ancients into historical narrative forms and probed by way of historical questioning and explanation. Attention to how these models resonate still today. Readings in translation: Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Livy and others. Participation in a weekly discussion section is required.

(Formerly CLASSGRK 111.) The course will be an intensive and extensive reading of this intriguing dialogue. Focus will center on making sense of the Greek and polishing translation/grammar skills. However, the trees of language should not prevent us from gazing at the whole forest. As it is, the Phaedrus deals with the significant interplay between eros and logos ¿i.e. the far-reaching extents of a rhetoric on love. Topics opened by this vein of thought include: a unique pastoral setting, philosophy and myth, the origins of poetic creation, types of madness, man¿s relation to the divine, the nature of the soul, the art of writing as a cause of oblivion. Classics majors and minors must take for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSLAT 111.) Full description TBD. Classics majors and minors must take for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSGRK 112.) Invectives, love songs, drinking songs, elegies, and choral odes from 700-500 B.C.E. Readings include Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Alcman, Solon, and Pindar. Classics majors and minors may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSLAT 112.) Livy's Book VI tells the history of Republican Rome from 390 to 367 BCE, years of profound change in Roman society, as the city is reconstructed after being sacked by the Gauls. How does Livy make his story lifelike and convincing? What is the role of individuals in this narrative? How do moral readings of past events balance political ones? How does Livy involve his readers in reconstructing Rome and its past? Close attention to language, style and narrative techniques. Classics majors and minors must take for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSGRK 113.) Euclid and Archimedes. Reading texts from Greek science. The relationship between form and meaning in the presentation of scientific information, introduction to Greek Paleography. Classics majors and minors must take for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSLAT 113.) Four brilliant writers¿¿Gallus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid¿¿composed poetry on the thrills and pangs of love and loss: they are known as the Roman elegists. We will look at some of their predecessors and read their own works in Latin in selection, reflect on their choice of life in the service of love, and review grammar and syntax as necessary. Classics majors and minors must take course for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

(Formerly CLASSLAT 175A/275A.) Intensive review of Latin syntax. Begins Autumn Quarter and continues through the fifth week of Winter Quarter. See CLASSICS 206A/B for supplemental courses. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin. First-year graduate students register for CLASSICS 204A.