| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| 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 to an examination of the so-called "Dark Ages" 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, and final examination. No prerequisites. Non-majors are most welcome. This course may be used to satisfy the General Education requirement IV (Arts and Humanities). |
| CLASSIC 45C | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | In this course we will examine a few ancient Greek myths, their interpretations, and the influence they have exerted on modern literature and film. Classics 45C is the third course in the series Classics 45A,B,C. It's preferable, but not required, to take this course in sequence. The Classics 45A,B,C series satisfies the General Education requirement IV (Arts and Humanities). The broader objectives of the series are to develop a solid knowledge of the material and to understand some of the ways in which Greek and Romans used the medium of myth to interpret and deal with their world. |
| CLASSIC 99 | SPEC STDS:CLASSICS | STAFF | |
| CLASSIC 160 | HOMER IN ANTIQUITY | PORTER, J. | Participants in this course will accomplish two goals: they will become familiar with a fair amount of Homer’s two epics, the Iliad and Odyssey; and they will learn how classical texts are put together, with Homer as the centerpiece example. That is, we will look at the way in which classical texts are transmitted from the past and how they have survived (or have failed to survive); how scholars have sought to make sense of them (starting with antiquity itself); and how Homer’s originally sung texts have changed (been adapted, used, quoted, sometimes maligned and abused, sometimes creatively reshuffled, or translated into different media—sculpture, painting, poetry) in antiquity itself, starting with their written transcription, while still remaining identifiably “Homeric,” and in this way constituting a Homeric tradition. Requirements: short writing assignments (blog postings and responses—not many and not graded), a final (id's and essays), and one final collaborative project in any medium, including any non-textual medium (oral/aural, visual, or digital) to be presented during the last week of class.
Site: https://sites.google.com/site/homerinantiquity/ |
| CLASSIC 192B | SENIOR CAPSTONE | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | Under the direction of a faculty member, majors design and execute a senior project. This project may be a research paper, dramatic production, school curriculum, etc. All projects must be approved by the faculty mentor. Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. |
| CLASSIC 220 | THEORIES OF EMOTION | MULLER, J. | This course is an investigation of some of the Ancient theories of the nature and moral
significance of emotions. Our main interest will be in the theories of Aristotle and the Stoics,
but we will also pay attention to other theories (esp. Platonic theories). In addition to the
general theories of emotions, we will spend some time on particular emotions: anger and,
if time permits, love and hate. Besides philosophical writings, we will pay attention also to
works of literature in which emotions play important role (Homer, Euripides, etc.). We will
work with English translations in class (paying attention, where appropriate to translation
issues), but there will be an additional session devoted to reading Greek (we will read
Aristotle: excerpts from Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, and Rhetoric) for those interested. |
| CLASSIC 220 | HOMER AMONG PHILOS | PORTER, J. | From the Presocratics to Hegel and Adorno, Homer, the presumed author of the first
preserved literary document in the West, has exerted an extraordinary attraction, even
fascination, among philosophers. This course will begin to ask why this is the case by
focusing on a few prominent case studies, chiefly modern, from Voltaire to Hegel,
Nietzsche, Lukacs, Adorno, Weil, and Bernard Williams, along with some supplemental
readings (brief selections from the Presocratics, Plato, Dio of Prusa, Porphyry, Homeric
exegetical commentaries, R. Wood, Auerbach, Bakhtin, and some philological writings).
Issues to be discussed will include evolving conceptions of history and historicity,
modernity, the emergence of subjectivity, consciousness (historical and other), and the
conditions that frame linguistic and narrative representation (and epic expression/genre in
particular). No prerequisites, though some familiarity with the Homeric epics would be
helpful (see course website for a suggested crash-course reading in these).
Readings to include: Voltaire, Essay on Epic Poetry; Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics (sel.):
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tradedy (sel.), early essays on Homer, Genealogy of Morals (sel.);
Lukacs, The Theory of the Novel; Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment;
Weil, The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force; Williams, Shame and Necessity (sel.) |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | ZISSOS, P. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | PORTER, J. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | PANTELIA, M. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | KARANIKA, A. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | CLAXTON, C. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | CLAXTON, C. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | KARANIKA, A. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | PANTELIA, M. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | PORTER, J. | |
| CLASSIC 290 | RESEARCH IN CLASSIC | ZISSOS, P. | |