CLASSIC Course Descriptions for 2020-2021

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CourseTitleInstructorDescription
CLASSIC 37AEARLY ROMEZISSOS, P.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.

Same as HISTORY 37A.
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.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.
CLASSIC 150CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGYSNYDER, R.The Underworld: Ancient Literature on Life, Death, and Regeneration. Taking a spatial or topographical approach to mythology, this course will explore the significance of “the underworld” to ancient Greek and Roman thought. We will explore the role of the underworld in ancient cosmologies, examine its importance to notions of (im)mortality and terrestrial fertility, and investigate the central role of “the descent” in the ancient hero’s quest. To explore these ideas, we will read such authors as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, and others. These readings will be supplemented with critical and theoretical texts, and the course will conclude with a look at more modern adaptations of these ideas in literature.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYSTAFF
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYGIANNOPOULOU, Z.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYKARANIKA, A.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYPANTELIA, M.
CLASSIC 280INDEPENDENT STUDYZISSOS, P.