| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLASSIC 10 | MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY | HERNANDEZ, A. | A study of English terms derived from Greek and Latin and important to contemporary medicine, science, and other professions, with emphasis on development of word-building skills. No prior knowledge of Greek or Latin required. |
| CLASSIC 36A | EARLY GREECE | BRANSCOME, D. | A survey of ancient Greek civilization from its origins in the Bronze Age to the mid-Archaic period. Examines political and social history, as well as literature, art, religion, and archaeological remains. Same as HISTORY 36A. (IV) |
| CLASSIC 37B | ROMAN EMPIRE | ZISSOS, P. | A survey of Roman civilization from Augustus’s consolidation of power following the civil wars of the first century BCE to the crisis of the third century CE. Includes social history, literature, art, architecture, and religion. Same as HISTORY 37B. (IV) |
| CLASSIC 45A | THE GODS | KARANIKA, A. | 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. (IV) |
| CLASSIC 45B | THE HEROES | BRANSCOME, D. | An overview of the main myths of the heroes of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their influence in contemporary and later literature and art. Includes readings from both ancient and modern sources. (IV) |
| CLASSIC 160 | VILLAINS & GENDER | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | We know them, or we think we do: the woman with snakes for hair, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” the skilled sorceress, the irresistible temptress, “an evil thing in which men delight while embracing their own destruction,” a vengeful mariticide, a jealous filicide. Their names are Medusa, Helen, Circe, Scylla, Chimera, Calypso, Pandora, Clytemnestra, Medea— all powerful females from Greco-Roman mythology that have been villainized for millennia. This interdisciplinary course foregrounds tropes of female criminalization, from antiquity to the present, that have sought to subject women to social hierarchies and patriarchal norms. By studying literary texts, visual and material artefacts, films, popular culture, feminist ethics and epistemology, legal and critical character theory, the course explores the gendered, political, social, racial, and religious investments of both western and non-western cultures in the villainization of women, the shifting narratives and counternarratives that have constructed and deconstructed ancient literary women and their modern filiations as evildoers. Can we see vice both as damage inflicted on women by structures of social oppression and as a mechanism by means of which women seek to challenge or overthrow oppressive structures? Grade is based on class participation, weekly canvas posts, an oral presentation, and a paper or creative project. |
| CLASSIC 166 | MUSSOLNI,FACSM,ROME | ZISSOS, P. | This course will examine the fascist regime established by Benito Mussolini in Italy in the 1920s, which would prove a key inspiration for other movements, most notoriously that of Adolf Hitler in Germany. The rise of Italian fascism will be explored in both the national and international contexts of the early twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to Mussolini’s extensive use of the legacy of Ancient Rome in Fascist propaganda and visual imagery. Through a program of archaeological excavations and exhibitions, through architecture and cinema, he cast the ancient Romans not merely as the ancestors of the Italians, but also as models of imperialist ambition and political organization. Indeed, the very word ‘fascism’ derives from Latin fasces, the symbol of the power of magistrates in the Ancient Roman Republic, and points to the Classical inspiration underwriting Mussolini’s movement. This course will be conducted in English. No knowledge of Italian or Latin is required. |
| CLASSIC 198 | DIRECTED GROUP STDY | STAFF | Special topics in Classical studies through directed reading and research. Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times. |
| CLASSIC 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | SNYDER, R. | Independent research with Classics faculty. Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times. |
| CLASSIC 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | ZISSOS, P. | |
| CLASSIC 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | KARANIKA, A. |