Department of Classics (GRAD)

Systematic introduction to archaeological field methods, especially survey and excavation techniques, and theoretical approaches using case studies from the Mediterranean, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Required preparation, any intermediate art history course or permission of the instructor. A focused study of sculpture in Ancient Greece.

A survey of Greek architectural development from the Dark Ages through the fourth century BCE. Special topics include the beginnings of monumental architecture, the development of the orders, and interpretations of individual architects in terms of style and proportions.

The development of architecture in the Roman world from the ninth century BCE through the fourth century CE. The course focuses on the development of urbanism and the function, significance, and evolution of the main building types and their geographic distribution.

Survey of Roman sculpture (200 BCE-300 CE), including portraiture, state reliefs, funerary monuments, and idealizing sculpture, with emphasis on style, iconography, and historical development of sculpture in its sociocultural, political, and religious contexts.

A survey of the material remains of the frontiers and provinces of the Roman Empire and the variety of responses to Roman imperialism. Issues of language, gender, ethnicity, globalization, and power will be considered.

Surveys Roman painting from 200 BCE to 300 CE, with emphasis on style, iconography, historical development of painting in its sociocultural, political, and religious contexts. Treats current debates in scholarship.

This course explores the archaeological and historical evidence for life in Egypt between 332 BCE and 324 CE, when the traditions of Pharaonic Egypt came together with the customs and culture of Greek and Roman conquerors to create a society incorporating the traditions of native Egyptian and Mediterranean peoples.

This course will examine the history and material culture of the ancient state known as the Achaemenid Persian Empire through ancient texts and archaeological sources. Beginning in the sixth century BCE, this ancient superpower ruled a vast and culturally diverse empire that stretched from Northern Libya to central Asia. Through an examination of key sites, objects, and texts we will explore the history and diversity of this multicultural empire.

This course surveys the development of Greek material culture from 1200 to 500 BCE, exploring the origins of Greek art, architecture, cities, and sanctuaries in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

This course is a survey of the archaeology and architecture of ancient Greek sanctuaries from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. We will discuss the development of temple architecture, ritual assemblages, and votive practices.

This is a course on ancient synagogues in Palestine and the Diaspora from the Second Temple period to the seventh century CE.

This course is an introduction to archaeological field methods and excavation techniques, through participation in archaeological excavation.

Study of the material culture of the Aegean Neolithic and Bronze Age, focusing on the origins and development of Minoan and Mycenaean culture groups and palatial societies.

The study of the material culture of the Early Iron Age Aegean from the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces to the earliest Greek city states (ca. 1200-700 B.C.).

Seminar in archaeological excavation techniques to be conducted in the field. Previous excavation experience is expected.

Study of chief archaeological sites of Greece and of existing buildings and monuments. Attention to the problems of excavation and the role of the sites in Greek history.

Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. Seminar examines the evidence for the ancient Jewish communities of Egypt, Rome, Asia Minor, and Mesopotamia.

With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Topics vary from year to year.

The study in English translation of selections from Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and others, with consideration of their literary qualities and their readability as historians. Honors version available.

This course combines a survey of the main areas of Roman law in their social and historical context with the close study of primary texts illustrating Roman law in practice, especially case studies from the writings of Roman legal experts; particular attention is given to the logic and application of ancient Roman legal thought and to its social and ethical implications. Honors version available.

A systematic review of English grammar for students of Latin and Greek, combined with practical exercises in prose style and effective writing.

Honors course for departmental majors in classical archaeology, classical civilization, Greek, and Latin.

Honors course for departmental majors in classical archaeology, classical civilization, Greek, and Latin.

This course is an introduction to the issues, skills, and resources relevant to the successful teaching of undergraduate courses in Classics Departments at post-secondary educational institutions.

This course is an introduction to skills and practices that play a key part in the professional lives of classicists and classical archaeologists working in post-secondary educational institutions.

This course is a requirement for the M.A. in Classics. The goal of the course is to provide pre-M.A. students with an overview of the field and of its development; and to provide them with resources and methods that will help them to conduct their own research in an informed fashion. Graduate students only.

Intensive interdisciplinary introduction to women in antiquity, using literary, historical, and visual materials. Open to senior classics majors by permission of the instructor.

Graduate research seminar. Topics vary from year to year. Graduate standing.

Review of Attic grammar and idiom, exercises in composition, introduction to stylistics.

Selections from Homer, Hesiod, and/or the lyric and elegiac poets of the Archaic period, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from tragedy, Old Comedy, and/or historiography, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from philosophy, oratory, historiography, and/or New Comedy, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

This class has three goals: familiarizing students with Greek language, introducing them to concepts of Greek law by reading secondary literature, and directing them to current debates in the field.

With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Topics vary from year to year.

Fall and spring. Staff.

Fall and spring. Staff.

An intensive introduction to Latin grammar and syntax, equivalent to LATN 101 and 102. Students may not receive credit for the following course pairs: LATN 101 and 601; LATN 102 and 601.

An intensive review of Latin grammar, along with vocabulary building and the development of reading and translation skills, equivalent to LATN 203 and 204. Students may not receive credit for the following course pairs: LATN 203 and 602; LATN 204 and 602.

Review of Latin grammar and idiom, exercises in composition, introduction to stylistics.

Selections from Roman comedy, Lucretius, Catullus, Cicero, Caesar, and/or Sallust, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from Vergil, Horace, the elegiac poets, Ovid, and/or Livy, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from writers from the Neronian period through Apuleius, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from writers from the early 3rd to the early 5th century, including Tertullian, the Passio Perpetuae, Augustine's Confessions, the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, and Ammianus Marcellinus, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Introduction to textual criticism of Latin texts. Addresses transmission, principles of editing, constructing and interpreting an apparatus criticus. Practical editorial experience working from original manuscripts, microfilms, and digital reproductions.

Survey of medieval Latin literature from its beginnings through the high Middle Ages.

Study of Sallust, Caesar, Suetonius, or the minor historians of the empire.

Study of the comedies of Plautus and Terence or the tragedies of Seneca.

Study of the forms of lyric and elegiac poetry with special attention to Catullus, Horace, Tibullus, or Propertius.

Study of the development of satiric forms with special attention to Horace or Juvenal.

Introduction to literary theory through a study of Ovid and scholarly approaches to his poetry.

Reading in selected medieval Latin prose and verse authors.

We will read the AENEID in Latin, with special attention to the War in Italy. We'll concern ourselves with a variety of topics: style and language; allusion, intertextuality, and the poem's relationship to various texts or traditions; the blending or clash or voices and genres, and possible ways of responding to perceived inconsistencies; and critical debates about the poem's attitude toward the strengths & weaknesses of the Roman people.

Selections from Petronius and/or Apuleius and related texts.

With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Topics vary from year to year.