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| CLASSIC 5 | LAT/GR ROOTS IN ENG | STAFF | Studies in the formation and use of English words from Greek and Latin derivatives. Particularly useful for first-year students who wish to augment their vocabulary systematically. No prerequisites. |
| CLASSIC 10 | SCIENTIFIC TERMINOL | STAFF | A study of English terms derived from Greek and Latin and important to contemporary medicine, science and other professions, with emphasis on the development of word-building skills. No prior knowledge of Greek or Latin required. The work is designed to aid undergraduates, particularly those in the sciences, in the development of their technical vocabulary. No prerequisites. |
| CLASSIC 36A | EARLY GREECE | CLAXTON, C. | This course is the first class in a series on ancient Greek Society and the focus will be upon political and cultural development. We will begin with the Greeks of the Bronze Age and will consider why this advanced civilization suddenly collapsed into ruins about 1200 B.C.E. We will then move on to an examination of the so-called "Dark Age" of Greece (1200-750 B.C.E.), during which many of the features that would later characterize the Greek city-state or polis would develop in their rudimentary forms. We will end with the early Archaic period (700-600 B.C.E.), a time of increased trade and colonization, and consequently, of greater contact with the civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean as well as other groups. Particular emphasis will be placed upon primary texts and we will read selections from Homer, Hesiod and the lyric poets as well as relevant selections from later authors who discussed these periods in Greece. Quizzes, midterm, one short paper, and final examination. No prerequisites. Non-majors are most welcome. Together with 36B and 36C, this course may be used to satisfy the Humanistic Inquiry Breadth requirement (IV). Same as History 36A. |
| CLASSIC 45A | THE GODS | KARANIKA, A. | Classics 45A is the first part of a three-quarter course on Classical Mythology. This class will be an introduction to the most important Greek and Roman myths, their historical and religious context, various interpretations and influence upon ancient and modern art, film and literature. Some of the topics we will discuss are: the creation of the universe, relations between gods and mortals, gender and sexuality, love, marriage, death and afterlife. We will use a standard textbook, but we will also read selected passages from primary sources such as Hesiod's Theogony, Ovid's Metamorphoses and selections from Greek tragedy. The course will make regular use of ancillary visual materials, especially computer resources. The grade for this course will be based on a combination of multiple-choice quizzes and short essay exams. |
| CLASSIC 160 | CLASSICAL LITERATUR | STAFF | |
| CLASSIC 170 | REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN LATIN LITERATURE | SOGNO, C. | This course will look at the depiction of women in Latin literature (read in translation) and will analyze the extraordinary variety of roles played by women in men's writings. Among the topics that we will explore are the role played by women in legends concerning the foundation of Rome and early Roman history, the function of exemplary woemn, the representation of women in Latin comedy, epic, and love elegy, the portrait of powerful women, mysoginistic literature, and Christian women martyrs. |
| CLASSIC 220 | GRADUATE SEMINAR | KARANIKA, A. | In this seminar, we will analyze selected texts from the corpus of early Greek epic and lyric poetry that present women's voices. Starting from Homer, with an emphasis on the female figures of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and their speech, we will continue with selections from the Homeric Hymns, Hesiod' s Works and Days, and lyric, most notably, Sappho's poetry. The aim of this course is to examine carefully the parts where women hold the direct speech, often within the frames of a larger narrative, in order to discover what marks a woman' s performance, how literary and fictional women^?s voices are shaped, and how gender marks poetic genres. This course will serve as introduction to new theoretical perspectives on archaic Greek poetics.
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| CLASSIC 220 | GRADUATE SEMINAR | SCANLON, T. | Reading and discussion of Book 9 and of selections of other books of Herodotus, focusing on the author's historical writing, and themes including orality and sources; boundaries and cycles; bases of power- physis, nomos; and the tyrant. Required: text and commentary Marincola's and Flower's Herodotus Book IX (Camb. U. Pr, 2002), and translation of Herodotus, The Histories, R. Waterfield and C. Dewald, (Oxford U. Pr. 1998). Recommended: K. Hude's OCT two volumes of Herodotus (ordered through UCI Bookstore). |