CLASSIC Course Descriptions for 2019-2020

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Fall Course Descriptions
CourseTitleInstructorDescription
CLASSIC 37AEARLY ROMESNYDER, R.A survey of the development of Roman civilization from its eighth century BCE beginnings to the civil wars of the first century BCE. Examines political and social history, as well as literature, art, architecture, and religion.
CLASSIC 45ATHE GODSGIANNOPOULOU, Z.An overview of the main myths of the gods of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their influence in contemporary and later literature and art. Includes readings from both ancient and modern sources.
CLASSIC 99SPEC STDS:CLASSICSSTAFFLower-division level independent research with Classics faculty.
CLASSIC 160MEDEA THRU THE AGESGIANNOPOULOU, Z.This course on re-imagining the classics will explore how and why the classics have been retold, reformed, invoked, reinterpreted, and received from antiquity to the present day. We will use the mythological figure of Medea as our case study. Beginning with some theoretical orientation and reading Euripides’ Medea, we will survey the various literary versions of the myth in Roman literature. In the latter part of the course, we will turn to Medea’s place in modern and contemporary literature, theater, and film. While discussing the various reinterpretations and reinventions of Medea, we will remain mindful of issues of intertextuality. How for instance, do later versions of the myth engage with and prefigure earlier works? How might contemporary media reflect upon and suggest new meanings for their classical source texts? The methods and approaches used in this course should provide a model with which to approach other mythological, literary, aesthetic, and philosophical topics in classics and beyond.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYZISSOS, P.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYPANTELIA, M.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYKARANIKA, A.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
CLASSIC 290RESEARCH IN CLASSICSTAFF
CLASSIC 290RESEARCH IN CLASSICGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
CLASSIC 290RESEARCH IN CLASSICKARANIKA, A.
CLASSIC 290RESEARCH IN CLASSICPANTELIA, M.
CLASSIC 290RESEARCH IN CLASSICZISSOS, P.