FALL 2013 GRADUATE CLASSICS COURSES
ARH5174 Topography of Rome
Relentlessly transformed and re-designed by a variety of agencies, Rome never remained a museum to its own past. As it stands, its ever-evolving built environment is the palimpsest of millennia of building events, each with its own rationale and agencies. Trough the analysis of urban fabric and the voices of the ancient authors we will navigate the vast cityscape of Rome, investigating the evolution that in a few centuries led a modest constellation of villages to the highest prominence. Of course, much emphasis will be put on the city during classical and late antiquity, but we will also look at the modern re-invention of the imperial city. It should be stressed that topics like appropriation of the past, re-use of architecture, and political agendas will have centrality in the course.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM / FAB 0249 / Andrea DeGiorgi / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
ARH5174 Greek Temples
This course will introduce students to the origins and formal development of the Greek temple and to the distinctive regional variations in the building type. The course will also examine the religious and social functions of temples in order for students understand the central role of temples in ancient Greek society.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesMoWe 12:30PM - 1:45PM / FAB 0249 / Christopher Pfaff / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
CLA5799 Athenian Vase Painting
This course will provide an opportunity for graduate students to examine a variety of issues related to the art of vase painting in ancient Athens: technique, artists’ hands and personalities, the status of the art form and its relation to other media, and the meaning and function of the images.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesWe 3:30PM - 6:00PM / DOD 0205I / Christopher Pfaff / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
EUH5417 Roman Republic
In this course, we will consider Rome from its origins as a tiny village through its transformation into a Mediterranean empire, with a particular focus on the period 509-31 BCE. In addition to exploring major shifts in the cultural, political, military, and economic landscapes of the Roman Republic, we will engage with the methodological issues that arise from the fragmentary and often ambiguous evidence for this period of ancient history.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTuTh 3:35PM - 4:50PM / MON 0004 / Jessica Clark / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
GRW5345 Hesiod
We shall be reading in Greek Hesiod’s Theogony.Required Text: any text of Hesiod’s Theogony.(Students will also need to have access to West, M.L., 1966. Hesiod, Theogony, edited with Prolegomena and Commentary. Oxford. It is currently out of print, but second-hand and library copies may be available.)
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM / DOD 0205I / Francis Cairns / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
GRW5909 Homer, Odyssey
This course, open to students who have had at least three semesters of classical Greek, will read selections from Books I to XII of the Odyssey. Class will consist of daily translation and discussion of the texts read; there will also be regular quizzes and three exams.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTBA / DOD 0205I / John Marincola / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
GRW6930 Law and Rhetoric in Classical Athens
A recent and influential school of thought holds that the Athenian legal system was primitive in nature. Among other things, it was concerned not with settling disputes but with prolonging them; it was characterized by self-help as opposed to communal enforcement of norms; and its courts privileged non-legal factors such as rank and status when reaching decisions. This seminar will evaluate these and other conclusions through close readings of select speeches of the Attic orators. Students will be responsible for several speeches in their original Greek; others will be read in English.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesMo 3:30PM - 6:00PM / DOD 0205I / James Sickinger / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
LNW5325 Catullus
Translation of the entirety of the Catullan oeuvre, with particular attention both to the mechanics of the Latin and the larger cultural milieu.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesMoWe 12:30PM - 1:45PM / DOD 0205I / Laurel Fulkerson / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
LNW5385 Sallust
In this course, we will read the surviving works of the Roman historian Sallust (ca. 86-35 BCE). Our focus will be both stylistic and historical, aswe explore the development of Latin prose and the functions of historiography at Rome through the close reading of Sallust’s accounts of corruption, conspiracy, and civil strife at the end of the Roman Republic.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM / DOD 0205I / Jessica Clark / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
LNW5932 Ovid, ArsAmatoria
This intermediate Latin course offers an introduction to Ovid’s ArsAmatoria (Art of Love). We will engage in close reading of selections from the first two books of the poem, which offer advice on how to “conquer” women (Book 1) and how to retain their love (Book 2). Particular attention will be devoted to issues of grammar, syntax, style, genre, and meter.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesMoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM / LSB 0002 / Timothy Stover / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013
LNW6930 Suetonius
In this course we will look at the development of Latin biography through the works of Cornelius Nepos and Suetonius, its place in the Roman intellectual tradition, and its interaction with the evolving ideologies of the Roman empire. In the past Latin biography has received scant praise and insufficient scholarly attention. We will strive to understand the intellectual and ideological contributions of Latin biography, most particularly the works of Suetonius, on their own terms and within their historical context.
Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting DatesTu 3:30PM - 6:00PM / DOD 0205I / Trevor Luke / 08/26/2013 - 12/13/2013