Greek Civilization
Literature, art, thought and political evolution of ancient Greece, based on masterworks of classical literature. Slides are used to illustrate classical history and archaeology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Roman Civilization
Literature, art, thought and political evolution of ancient Rome, based on masterworks of classical literature. Slides are used to illustrate classical history and archaeology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Culture and Civilization of Central Europe: From the Prehistoric to 350CE
(also offered as GERM 1P93)
Cultural development of central Europe from the earliest stone and pottery cultures through the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Celts and Romans. Beliefs and practices, artistic style and architecture. Digitized images are used to illustrate the cultural evidence.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Note: given in English.
Myths of the Greek and Roman Gods
Traditional story types: nature myths, ritual myths. Diffusion of myths in the ancient world. The creation, the succession in heaven and the individual gods. Functions of myth in ancient society. Modern theories of myth.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Myths of the Heroic Age
Traditional story types: folktale, legend. Concept of a Heroic Age, centres and cycles of legend, pseudo-history. Response to Greek and Roman myths through the ages.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature
Introduction to the main genres of Classical literature, including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, and satire; literary-critical approaches important to their study. Authors and works vary.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Introduction to Archaeology
History, theory and practice of archaeology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Cities and Sanctuaries of the Ancient World
(also offered as INTC 2P34)
Surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Ancient Sport and Spectacle
Sport and sporting values and their central role in ancient society. Topics include sporting events and facilities, sporting festivals, religious and political connections, intellectual and popular attitudes, a comparison of ancient and modern realities and values.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Great Myths in Literature and Art
(also offered as IASC 2P50)
Most influential myths in Greek and Latin literature and in ancient art, emphasizing continuity of themes and images. Selected readings in major genres of poetry and prose. Selected works of painting and sculpture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 1P95 and 1P97.
Ancient Judaisms and Judaic Societies: From Cyrus to Mohammed
Examination of evidence for major forms of Judaism and their relation to social, cultural, administrative and political institutions.
Note: offered online.
Women in the Ancient World
(also offered as WGST 2P61)
Women's social roles, environment and legal rights including conceptions of the female and ideals of women. Consideration given to women from other parts of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, Egypt and the Near East focusing on women in Greek and Roman society. Emphasis on the nature and limitations of the various types of evidence.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2P61.
Great Figures of the Ancient World
History, biography, and representation in literature, art and modern media of great figures such as Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 1P91 and 1P92.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 2P51.
Archaeological Practicum in Mediterranean Lands
Field work including excavation, surveys, lectures, demonstrations and study tours of ancient sites, monuments and museums.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS (2P27,) 2P32, 2P34 (2P35), 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25 or permission of the Department.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 4F75.
Study in Mediterranean Lands
(also offered as VISA 3M20-3M29)
Topographical investigations of ancient sites and monuments. Study tours of the great cities and museums of the Mediterranean world emphasizing the art and architecture of the Prehistoric, Classical and later periods.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: offered in the Spring or Summer Session for three or four weeks of intensive study abroad. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
2013-2014: Study Tour to Turkey
(also offered as VISA 3M24)
Archaeological and art historical investigation in Turkey, including Istanbul, Cappadocia, Aspendos, Kekova, Knidos, Halikarnassos, Pergamon and Troy. Emphasis on the major Greco-Roman sites and monuments as well as later development in Byzantine and Islamic art and architecture.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: offered in the Spring or Summer Session for three or four weeks of intensive study abroad. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
History of Early Greece
(also offered as HIST 3P03)
Social and political history of the Greek world from the Bronze Age to 450 BC: Minoans and Mycenaenas, Dark Age, colonizing period, tyrants, rise of Sparta, Persian wars, and Athenian Empire. Readings from Greek historians and documents in translation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 3P07.
History of Classical Greece
(also offered as HIST 3P04)
Social and political history of the Greek world, 450-323 BC. The great war between Athens and Sparta, rivalry of city-states, rise of national states. Alexander the Great. Readings from Greek historians and documents in translation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 3P08.
History of the Roman Republic
(also offered as HIST 3P05)
History of Rome to the Battle of Actium (31 BC) emphasizing social and political developments from the Gracchi to Julius Caesar.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 3P09.
History of the Early Roman Empire
(also offered as HIST 3P06)
History of Rome from the Battle of Actium to the death of Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) emphasizing social and political developments.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CLAS 3P10.
Early Greek Literature
(also offered as LART 3P11)
Emergence and development of literary genres in the Greek world, including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, history, and philosophy. May include Homer, Sappho, Pindar, the pre-Socratics, Herodotus and Aeschylus.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS 1P91, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00, LART 1F90, 1F91.
Classical and Hellenistic Greek Literature
(also offered as DART 3P12 and LART 3P12)
Tragedies, comedies and rhetoric of fifth-century Athens, and the epic, lyric and pastoral poetry of Hellenistic Alexandria. May include Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Apollonius of Rhodes and Theocritus.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS 1P91, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00, LART 1F90, 1F91
Literature of the Roman Republic
(also offered as LART 3P13)
Emergence and development of literary genres in Rome, including comedy, satire, history, rhetoric, lyric and epic poetry. May include Plautus, Sallust, Horace, Cicero and Vergil.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS 1P92, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00, LART 1F90, 1F91.
Literature of the Roman Empire
(also offered as LART 3P14)
Literary changes and development from Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors to Constantine, including the emergence of the novel. May include Ovid, Juvenal, Petronius, Tacitus and Apuleius.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS 1P92, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00, LART 1F90, 1F91.
Art and Architecture of Iron Age Italy and the Roman Republic
(also offered as VISA 3P22)
Art and architecture of the cultures of the Italian peninsula, in the first millennium BC, within the framework of cultural change and external influences.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
Art and Architecture of Rome in the Imperial Age
(also offered as VISA 3P23)
Roman art and architecture from Augustus to Late Antiquity. Christian art and architecture and the influence of Roman aesthetics on the Renaissance and beyond.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
Art and Architecture of Early Greece
(also offered as VISA 3P24)
Greek art and architecture from the end of the Bronze age through the end of the Archaic period within the framework of historical and cultural change.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
Art and Architecture of Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World
(also offered as VISA 3P25)
Greek art and architecture from the early Classical era through the Hellenistic period within the framework of historical and cultural change.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
Gender and Society in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures
(also offered as HIST 3P61 and WGST 3P61)
Ancient constructions of femininity and masculinity and their relationship to the social, political and legal systems of the Greco-Roman world. Cultural regions vary.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 2P61, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 3P61.
The Ancient Household
(also offered as WGST 3P62)
Social structure, gender and class roles, religious rituals; Mediterranean domestic space and community relationships, urban infrastructure and social networks.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 2P61, WGST (WISE) 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 3P62.
Survey Topics in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
Topics in Mediterranean art, architecture and archaeology, offering an overview of selected chronological periods, geographic regions and artistic disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
2013-2014: Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World
Overview of the sanctuaries and the sacred landscape that formed an essential part of Ancient religion including the physical space of the sanctuary and how it was used, foundation and growth of sanctuaries, architecture and offerings, rites and rituals, and documentary evidence for myth, religion and the worship of the divine.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 1P93, 1P95, 1P97, (2P27), 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99.
Special Topics in Archaeology
Selected topics and problems in current archaeological research that pertain to the Mediterranean and to the Near East.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS (2P27), CLAS 2P32, 2P34, (2P35), CLAS 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25, 3V30-3V39 or permission of the Department.
Special Topics in Mediterranean Art and Architecture
(also offered as VISA 4V30-4V39)
Selected topics and problems in current art, historical and archaeological research pertaining to the art and architecture of the ancient Greek or Roman world.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 2P32, 2P34, 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25, 3V30-3V39, VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99, VISA 2P41, 2P52, 2P92 or permission of the Department.
2013-2014: Art and Archaeology of Periclean Athens
(also offered as VISA 4V31)
Exploration of the religious and civic buildings, sculpture, painting, and other visual spectacles of the Golden Age of Athens in the context of fifth-century intellectual, historical, and cultural events, focusing on the influence of the statesman Pericles.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 2P32, 2P34, 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25, 3V30-3V39, VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99, VISA 2P41, 2P52, 2P92 or permission of the Department.
2013-2014: Aegean Bronze Age
(also offered as VISA 4V34)
Development of the Bronze Age cultures of the Aegean basin from 3000 to 1100 BC emphasizing art and architecture of the Minoans on Crete and the Mycenaeans of the Greek mainland.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 2P32, 2P34, 3P22, 3P23, 3P24, 3P25, 3V30-3V39, VISA 1Q98 and 1Q99, VISA 2P41, 2P52, 2P92 or permission of the Department.
Special Subjects in Classics
Study of a special subject in one of the following areas: Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, Greek and Roman history, philosophy and religion.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one CLAS credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the Department.
2013-2014: Empire and Environment
Roman imperial expansion explored through topological place-making in texts and monuments, ethnography, and environmental impact.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one CLAS credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the Department.
2013-2014: Empire and Environment
Roman imperial expansion explored through topological place-making in texts and monuments, ethnography, and environmental impact.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one CLAS credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the Department.
2013-2014: Disasters in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Natural and human-made disasters in antiquity including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, famines, plagues and slave revolts. Impact, response, recovery and reporting of such events.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from CLAS 1P91, 1P92, 3P05, 3P06 or permission of the instructor.
2013-2014: Advanced Archaeological Fieldwork in Greece
Fieldwork and study at the archaeological site of Gournia in Crete, Greece. Advanced techniques of archaeological survey, excavation, data recording, finds processing and analysis.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 3F75 and permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Advanced Archaeological Fieldwork and Directed Research
Fieldwork and study of archaeological material under the supervision of a faculty member.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 3F75 (4F75).
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
2013-2014: Advanced Archaeological Fieldwork in Turkey
Field work and study of archaeological material under the supervision of a faculty member.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): CLAS 3F75 and permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Advanced Study and Directed Research
Individual study in one of the following areas: archaeology, ancient history, classical literature.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: content to be determined by the interests of the student and the advice of the Department.