Overview

Courses are organized under three main headings:

Elementary and Intermediate Language Courses, designed to prepare students for advanced courses in Greek and Latin literature; they also carry credit towards the University Foreign Language Requirement. Each of these courses is offered once a year.

Courses in Ancient Culture and Civilization, in which the reading is entirely in English translation. These courses are open as electives to all students; they can be applied to the Minor in Ancient Civilization--in fact they form its basis. Some of them, marked as such, carry credit towards the University Core Literature Requirement. A selection of these courses is offered each year, usually four to six.

Reading Courses in Greek and Latin Literature. These are designed for Classics majors and graduate students, but are open to anyone who possesses the necessary language background. Again, a selection is offered each year, usually six to eight.

Courses in Modern Greek are listed separately, following Classics courses. Students should note that courses in other departments, which may not be listed here, will sometimes carry credit towards the Minor in Ancient Civilization.

NOTE: to find descriptions of courses for this semester, and to register for courses, you will need to go to Descriptions & Registration, at a site maintained by the Office of Student Services. Only a selection of the courses named below are offered in any given semester.

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Classics Courses

Elementary and Intermediate Language Courses (offered annually)

• Elementary Latin I-II
• Elementary Greek I-II
• Intermediate Latin I-II
• Intermediate Greek I-II

Courses in Ancient Culture and Civilization (selections annually)

Literary Emphasis

• Classical Mythology
• Heroic Verse: Homer, Virgil, and Beyond (Core Literature)
• Tragedy & Comedy (Core Literature)
• Classical Greek Drama (Core Literature)
• Classical & Biblical Backgrounds to English Literature
• Ancient Comedy
• The Ancient Novel

Historical Emphasis

• Greek Civilization
• Roman Civilization
• Ancient Tyranny
• The Augustan Age
• Culture of Athenian Democracy
• See also listings in the History Department

Linguistic Emphasis

• Medical Terminology
• Etymology &Lexicography
• History and Structure of Latin (requires some Latin)

Art and Archeology

• Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World: Greece
• Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World: Rome
• Greek Art and Archeology
• Art & Myth in Ancient Greece
• Art & Archaeology of Homer & Troy

Religion and Philosophy

• Pagans, Christians, and Jews I-II (Core Theology)
• Political Thought of the Greeks
• Greek Philosophy
• Aristotelian Ethics
• Evolution of Greek Metaphysics

Arts & Sciences Honors Program (offered annually)

• Western Cultural Tradition I-II [Greece & Rome]
• Western Cultural Tradition III-IV [Bible & Middle Ages]

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Reading Courses in Greek and Latin Literature (selections annually)

 

 

Greek Authors & Genres

• Advanced Greek [topic varies]
• Aeschylus
• Aeschylus & Euripides
• Ancient Greek Drama
• Archaic Greek Poetry
• Aristophanes
• Attic Orators
• Demosthenes
• Epic & Dramatic Verse Construction
• Euripides
• Greek Patrology
• Greek Lyric Poetry
• Hellenistic Poetry
• Herodotus I-II
• Hesiod
• Homer I-II
• Introduction to Classical (Greek) Scholarship
• New Testament
• Plato I-II
• Sophocles
• Thucydides I-II
• Theocritus

Latin Authors & Genres

• Advanced Readings [topic varies]
• Apuleius: Metamorphoses
• Caesar
• Catullus
• Cicero & Friends
• Cicero: Orations
• History & Structure of Latin
• Horace: Odes
• Horace: Epistles & Satires
• Latin Love Poetry
• Latin Paleography
• Latin Patrology
• Latin Prose Composition
• Livy
• Lucretius
• Ovid: Amatory Poems
• Ovid: Fasti
• Ovid: Metamorphoses
• Petronius
• Plautus & Terence
• Pliny: Letters
• Roman Elegy
• Roman Historians
• Seneca: Drama
• Seneca: Philosophy
• Silver Latin Poetry
• Tacitus
• Virgil: Eclogues & Georgics
• Virgil: Aeneid I-II

Tutorials, theses, etc.

• Undergraduate Readings & Research
• Graduate Readings & Research
• Scholar of the College
• Master's Thesis

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Modern Greek Courses

Elementary and Intermediate Language

• Elementary Modern Greek I-II [alternate years]
• Intermediate Modern Greek I-II [alternate years]

Courses in Modern Greek Culture (selections periodically)

• Introduction to the Modern Greek World
• Modern Greek Literature in English
• Currents in Modern Greek Literature (Core)
• Modern Greek Culture
• Modern Greek Novel
• Greece through her Films
• Modern Greek History & Society

Reading Courses in Modern Greek Literature (selections periodically)

• Advanced Topics in Modern Greek [topic varies]
• Translation Workshop: Advanced Modern Greek
• Modern Greek Short Story
• Computers and (Modern) Greek

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