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Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Prerequisite: CLASSICS 2G or equivalent placement. CLASSICS 3G fulfills University language requirement.

Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. Prerequisite: CLASSICS 2L or equivalent placement. CLASSICS 3L fulfills the University language requirement.

This course serves as an introduction to Homeric Greek and to Homer's Odyssey specifically. We will be reading selections from the Odyssey in the original Greek to develop an understanding of the syntax, vocabulary, and dialect of Homeric Greek. Students will also be introduced to a wide variety of tools and resources, both digital and print, to aid them in working with and working through Homeric Greek. In addition, we will read the whole of the Odyssey in English via multiple translations, which will allow us to broaden our discussions to questions of narrative structure and characterization, as well as questions about the practice and process of translation. Classics majors and minors may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

In this class we will read selections from Ovid's Heroides, a collection of elegiac epistolary poems. Through a focus on grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, the student will develop their fluency in Latin. We will analyze the literary language, including rhythm, meter, word order, narrative, and figures of speech. In addition, students will have the opportunity to explore the social and political contexts of the work. Classics majors and minors may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring.

More than excavating ancient sites and managing collections of old things, Archaeology is a way of experiencing the world: imagining past lives through ruins and remains; telling the story of a prehistoric village through the remains of the site and its artifacts; dealing with the return of childhood memories; designing a museum for a community. The archaeological imagination is a creative capacity mobilized when we experience traces and vestiges of the past, when we gather, classify, conserve and restore, when we work with such remains to deliver stories, reconstructions, accounts, explanations, or whatever. This class will explore such a wide archaeological perspective in novels, poetry, fantasy literature, the arts, movies, online gaming, and through some key debates in contemporary archaeology about human origins, the spread of urban life, the rise and fall of ancient empires.

How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in sections on Coursework.

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. Classics majors and minors must take for a letter grade and may repeat for credit with advance approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Most of the literature that we read in Latin is from a relatively early period of the language's history; Classics curricula typically stop with Apuleius, who died in 170AD. However, Latin-speaking people wrote sophisticated texts, on every variety of topic both pagan and religious, for thousands of years after this. So: In this class we will defy convention and strike out to explore the rich tradition of Late Latin literature. Readings will include both ""literary"" and ""vernacular"" texts, covering (among other things) inscriptions, papyrus letters from Egypt and Africa, the poetry of Ausonius and Proba, selections from the history of Gregory of Tours, and the lively travelogue of Egeria. In parallel, we will also explore the history of Latin during the Empire, emphasizing the historical developments that distinguish Late Latin from ""Classical"" Latin. Students should be able to read Latin at an Intermediate-to-Advanced level, but no experience with linguistics, Late Latin, or Roman history is expected or required.