Greek, Ancient and Modern (B.A.)

Courses Greek

GREK 110a, Beginning Greek: The Elements of Greek Grammar  Zachary Wolens

Introduction to ancient Greek. Emphasis on morphology and syntax within a structured program of readings and exercises. Prepares for GREK 120. No prior knowledge of Greek assumed.  L1  RP  1½ Course cr
MTWThF 9:25am-10:15am

GREK 120b, Beginning Greek: Review of Grammar and Selected Readings  Kyle Conrau-Lewis

Continuation of GREK 110. Emphasis on consolidating grammar and on readings from Greek authors. The sequence GREK 110, 120 prepares for 131 or 141. Prerequisite: GREK 110 or equivalent.  L2  RP  1½ Course cr
MWF 9:25am-10:15am

* GREK 125b, Intensive Beginning Greek  Timothy Robinson

An introduction to classical Greek for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Readings from Greek authors supplement intensive instruction in grammar and vocabulary. The course is intended to be of use to students with diverse academic backgrounds and interests. Prepares for GREK 131. Not open to students who have taken GREK 110, 120.  L1, L2  RP  2 Course cr
MTWThF 9:25am-11:15am

GREK 131a, Greek Prose: An Introduction  Pauline LeVen

Close reading of selections from classical Greek prose with review of grammar. Counts as L4 if taken after GREK 141 or equivalent.  L3
MWF 10:30am-11:20am

GREK 141b, Homer: An Introduction  Christopher Londa

A first approach to reading Homeric poetry in Greek. Selected books of the Iliad or the Odyssey. Counts as L4 if taken after GREK 131 or equivalent.  L3
MWF 10:30am-11:20am

* GREK 419a, Helen After Troy  Pauline LeVen

Focus on the representation of Helen of Troy in Homer, Sappho, and other lyric poets. Readings from Gorgias's Encomium of Helen, Euripides' Helen, and Longus. Attention to problems of aesthetics, rhetoric, and poetics. L4 Greek or permission of the instructor.  L5
MW 1pm-2:15pm

* GREK 443b, Homer's Iliad  Pauline LeVen

Reading of selected books of the Iliad, with attention to Homeric language and style, the Homeric view of heroes and gods, and the reception of Homer in antiquity.  L5, HU
MW 11:35am-12:50pm

LATN 110a, Beginning Latin: The Elements of Latin Grammar  Staff

Introduction to Latin. Emphasis on morphology and syntax within a structured program of readings and exercises. Prepares for LATN 120. No prior knowledge of Latin assumed. Preregistration, which is required, takes place at the Academic Fair. See the Calendar for the Opening Days or the departmental Web site for details about preregistration.  L1  RP  1½ Course cr
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LATN 120b, Beginning Latin: Review of Grammar and Selected Readings  Staff

Continuation of LATN 110. Emphasis on consolidating grammar and on readings from Latin authors. The sequence LATN 110, 120 prepares for 131 or 141. Prerequisite: LATN 110 or equivalent.  L2  RP  1½ Course cr
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LATN 131a, Latin Prose: An Introduction  Irene Peirano

Close reading of a major work of classical prose; review of grammar as needed. Counts as L4 if taken after LATN 141 or equivalent.  L3
MWF 9:25am-10:15am

LATN 141b, Latin Poetry: An Introduction  Niek Janssen

The course is devoted to Vergil. Counts as L4 if taken after LATN 131 or equivalent.  L3
MWF 9:25am-10:15am

* LATN 390b, Latin Syntax and Stylistics  Joseph Solodow

A systematic review of syntax and an introduction to Latin style. Selections from Latin prose authors are read and analyzed, and students compose short pieces of Latin prose. For students with some experience reading Latin literature who desire a better foundation in forms, syntax, idiom, and style.  L5, HU
MW 1pm-2:15pm

* LATN 410a, Livy's Rome  Christina Kraus

Close reading of selections from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, including Books V and XXI in Latin and additional books in English translation. The nature of representation; Augustan elements in Livy's work; themes and plots of Livian history; Livy and other Roman historians; comparison of ancient historiography and contemporary historical writing.  L5, HU
TTh 1pm-2:15pm

LATN 411a, Early Rome from Aeneas to Romulus  Joseph Solodow

Investigation of how the Romans imagined the founding of their nation and their city, events to which they attached the highest importance yet about which they had little information. Careful reading of both prose and verse by Vergil, Livy, Ovid, and others. A bridge course between L4 and other L5 courses.  L5, HU
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

LATN 424a, Latin Lyric  Irene Peirano

Reading and analysis of selections from the canon of Latin lyric poetry. Focus on Horace's Odes, with some attention to his Epodes and to works by Catullus and lesser-known Republican poets. Emphasis on literary interpretation.  L5
MW 11:35am-12:50pm

LATN 440b, Roman Friendship  Christina Kraus

Readings from works by Catullus (selected poems), Cicero (De Amicitia), Horace (Epistles I), Seneca the Younger and Pliny the Younger (selected letters). The concept of friendship and its importance in Roman society; comparison with other societies. A bridge course between L4 and other L5 courses.  L5, HU
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

* LATN 450b, Roman Dining  Kirk Freudenburg

A course designed to bridge the gap between advanced high school Latin, or Latin at the L4 level, and Latin at the L5 level. Readings in Latin, with secondary readings in English, on the topic of food, drink, and the protocols of dining in ancient Rome. Prerequisite: L4 Latin course or advanced high school Latin.  L5
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

* CLSS 402b, Advanced Latin Paleography  Barbara Shailor

The challenges of using hand-produced Latin manuscripts in research, with an emphasis on texts from the late Middle Ages. Gothic cursive scripts and bookhands c. 1200–c. 1500; fragments of unidentified codices; complex or composite codices with heavy interlinear and marginal annotations. Manuscripts and fragments selected largely from collections in the Beinecke Library. Prerequisite: CLSS 401 or permission of instructor.  L5, HU
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

* CLSS 430a, Medical Thought in Greek and Latin Literature  Staff

Classical understandings of the human body and medical science as reflected in ancient Greek and Roman epic, history, drama, and other literature. Medical concepts of the body's functioning in sickness and health, from birth and growth to old age and death, and their influence on literary accounts of human activity. Prerequisite: GREK 131 or 141, or LATN 131 or 141, or with permission of instructor.  HU
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* CLSS 490a, Two-Term Senior Essay for the Intensive Major in Classics  Andrew Johnston

Qualified students may write a two-term senior essay in ancient literature or classical archaeology under the guidance of a faculty adviser. A written statement of purpose must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies.
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CLSS 492a, One-Term Senior Essay for the Intensive Major in Classics  Andrew Johnston

Qualified students may write a one-term senior essay in ancient literature or classical archaeology under the guidance of a faculty adviser. A written statement of purpose must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies.
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* CLCV 034a / HIST 037a / HSHM 002a, Medicine and Disease in the Ancient World  Jessica Lamont

Examination of ancient medicine considering modern fields of pathology, surgery, pharmacology, therapy, obstetrics, psychology, anatomy, medical science, ethics, and education, to gain a better understanding of the foundations of Western medicine and an appreciation for how medical terms, theories, and practices take on different meanings with changes in science and society. All readings in English. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.  HU
MW 9am-10:15am

* CLCV 059b / ARCG 031b / EVST 030b / HIST 020b / NELC 026b, Rivers and Civilization  Harvey Weiss

The appearance of the earliest cities along the Nile and Euphrates in the fourth millennium B.C. Settlements along the rivers, the origins of agriculture, the production and extraction of agricultural surpluses, and the generation of class structures and political hierarchies. How and why these processes occurred along the banks of these rivers; consequent societal collapses and their relation to abrupt climate changes. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required; see under Freshman Seminar Program.  HU, SO
TTh 9am-10:15am

CLCV 125a / PHIL 125a, Introduction to Ancient Philosophy  Verity Harte

An introduction to ancient philosophy, beginning with the earliest pre-Socratics, concentrating on Plato and Aristotle, and including a brief foray into Hellenistic philosophy. Intended to be taken in conjunction with PHIL 126.  WR, HU
TTh 11:35am-12:25pm

CLCV 160b / ARCG 243b / HSAR 243b, Greek Art and Architecture  Milette Gaifman

Monuments of Greek art and architecture from the late Geometric period (c. 760 B.C.) to Alexander the Great (c. 323 B.C.). Emphasis on social and historical contexts.  HU
TTh 1pm-2:15pm

CLCV 170a / ARCG 170a / HSAR 250a, Roman Art: Empire, Identity, and Society  Diana Kleiner

Masterpieces of Roman art from the Republic to Constantine studied in their historical and social contexts. The great Romans and the monuments they commissioned—portraits, triumphal arches, columns, and historical reliefs. The concept of empire and imperial identity, politics and portraiture, the making and unmaking of history through art, and the art of women, children, freedmen, and slaves.  HU
TTh 9am-10:15am

CLCV 175b / ARCG 252b / HSAR 252b, Roman Architecture  Diana Kleiner

The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.  HU
TTh 9am-10:15am

CLCV 205b / HIST 205b / HUMS 143b, Introduction to Ancient Greek History  Jessica Lamont

Introduction to Greek history, tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in the political, military, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age through the end of the Classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as secondary scholarship to better understand the rise and fall of the ancient Greeks—the civilization at the very heart of Western Civilization.  HU
TTh 9am-10:15am

CLCV 206a / HIST 217a / HUMS 144a, The Roman Republic  Andrew Johnston

The origins, development, and expansion of Rome from the earliest times to the deaths of Caesar and Cicero. Cultural identity and interaction; slavery, class, and the family; politics, rhetoric, and propaganda; religion; imperialism; monumentality and memory; and the perception and writing of history. Application of literary and archaeological evidence.  HU
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

CLCV 207b / HIST 218b, The Roman Empire  Andrew Johnston

The history of the Roman Empire from its establishment by Augustus to the reign of Justinian. Attention to social, intellectual, and religious changes, as well as to the framework of historical events within which these changes took place, and to the processes by which the Roman Empire was replaced by the institutions of the Western Middle Ages and the Byzantine Empire.  HU
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

* CLCV 216a / LITR 239a / MGRK 216a / WGSS 209a, Dionysus in Modernity  George Syrimis

Modernity's fascination with the myth of Dionysus. Questions of agency, identity and community, and psychological integrity and the modern constitution of the self. Manifestations of Dionysus in literature, anthropology, and music; the Apollonian-Dionysiac dichotomy; twentieth-century variations of these themes in psychoanalysis, surrealism, and magical realism.  HU  Tr
F 1:30pm-3:20pm

* CLCV 230b / ARCG 424b / HSAR 424b, eClavdia: Women in Ancient Rome  Diana Kleiner

The contributions of Roman women to one of the greatest cities—and one of the greatest empires—in world history. Lost stories of real-life Roman women recovered from public and residential buildings, portraits, paintings, and other works of Roman art and architecture.  HU  RP
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

CLCV 236b / HIST 225b, Roman Law  Noel Lenski

Basic principles of Roman law and their applications to the social and economic history of antiquity and to the broader history of international law. Topics include the history of persons and things, inheritance, crime and tort, and legal procedure. Questions of social and economic history and the history of jurisprudence from the fifth century B.C.E. to the present.  HU
MW 9am-10:15am

CLCV 311a / HIST 311a, Egypt of the Pharaohs  Joseph Manning

Egypt was among the first centralized territorial states in the world, and, because Egyptian history offers us 4000 years of institutional development and change, the focus of this course is on the long-term development of the ancient Egyptian state, its institutions, and its culture. The course introduces students to the history and culture of ancient Egypt from the rise of the central state to the early Christian period. General historical trends, the relationship of Egyptian history to other contemporary ancient cultures, and the legacy of Egypt to the “West” are also considered. At the end of the course, students have an understanding of the material culture and the historical development of ancient Egypt, and an appreciation for the relationship of the ancient sources to the construction of ancient Egyptian history.  HU
MW 10:30am-11:20am

* CLCV 319b / HIST 242Jb / MGRK 300b / WGSS 293b, The Olympic Games, Ancient and Modern  George Syrimis

Introduction to the history of the Olympic Games from antiquity to the present. The mythology of athletic events in ancient Greece and the ritual, political, and social ramifications of the actual competitions. The revival of the modern Olympic movement in 1896, the political investment of the Greek state at the time, and specific games as they illustrate the convergence of athletic cultures and sociopolitical transformations in the twentieth century.  HU
W 9:25am-11:15am

* CLCV 450a, Two-Term Senior Project for the Major in Classical Civilization  Andrew Johnston

Qualified students may write a two-term senior essay under the guidance of a faculty adviser. An appropriate instructor is assigned to each student by the director of undergraduate studies in consultation with the student. In the first term, selected readings compensate for individual deficiencies and help the student achieve a balanced overview. In the second term, students select a topic for research from any area of the literature, history, culture, or philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome, or Hellenistic Egypt, or a topic from the classical tradition.
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* CLCV 452a, One-Term Senior Project for the Major in Classical Civilization  Andrew Johnston

A one-term senior project. Students select a topic for research from any area of the literature, history, culture, or philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome, or Hellenistic Egypt, or a topic from the classical tradition. An appropriate instructor is assigned to each student by the director of undergraduate studies in consultation with the student.
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Various graduate seminars are open to juniors and seniors with the qualifications expected of graduate students, i.e., proficiency in the pertinent ancient and modern languages. Descriptions of the courses are available from the director of undergraduate studies. Permission is required of the instructor, the director of undergraduate studies, and the director of graduate studies.