| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLASSIC 36C | 4TH C/HELLEN GR | BRANSCOME, D. | A survey of ancient Greek civilization from the fourth century BCE through to the Hellenistic period. Focuses on major institutions and cultural phenomena as seen through the study of ancient Greek literature, history, archaeology, and religion. Same as HISTORY 36C. |
| 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 45C | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | Detailed examination of key Greek and Roman myths, their interpretations, and the influence they have exerted on literature, art, and popular culture in subsequent periods. (IV) |
| CLASSIC 99 | SPEC STDS:CLASSICS | STAFF | Lower-division level independent research with Classics faculty. Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times. |
| CLASSIC 160 | PERFORMINGREBELLION | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | Performing Rebellion This course stages a dialogue between Sophocles’ Antigone, a play first performed in 441BCE in Athens, Greece, and two contemporary South African theatrical engagements with it: The Island, devised jointly by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and first performed in 1973; and Antigone [not quite/quiet], directed by Mark Fleishman and first performed in 2019 as part of the University of Cape Town’s five-year research project on Re-imagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South. In Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery, Tina Chanter argues that Antigone’s rebellion against Creon’s decision to refuse burial to her brother accounts for the play’s “resurgence at moments of crisis” where it is used “to render visible suffering that is in danger of remaining invisible or insignificant.” The two South African retellings of the Greek play use Antigone’s rebellion to make visible two contrasting sides of the country’s relation to its colonial past. Set in an unnamed prison that is clearly based on Robben Island prison where Nelson Mandela was held for eighteen years for opposing the apartheid, The Island hovers between South African history and classical myth, using Antigone as a play-within-a-play that is performed by male prisoners in the roles of Creon and Antigone in order to articulate a vision that heals past traumas and unifies the people against apartheid. By contrast, Antigone [not quite/quiet] paints a bleak picture of a post-apartheid South Africa, a postcolonial present that grapples with the colonial past and where divisions of race, gender, and class undermine ambitions of reconciliation and social cohesion. Antigone thus catalyzes the fashioning of a (post)colonial self-consciousness defined, on the one hand, by the longing to resist political oppression and, on the other, by the need to address tensions and inequalities left in the wake of European colonialism. |
| CLASSIC 160 | ROMAN EPIC | SNYDER, R. | Classics 160: Roman Epic This course will explore the breadth and vitality of epic poetry in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. While a close reading of Virgil’s foundational Aeneid will be the centerpiece of this course, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and selections of Ovid’s Metamorphoses will offer evidence of the achievements of Roman epic beyond the mythico-heroic narratives often associated with the genre. The beginnings of the epic tradition in Rome will be examined through the fragments of archaic poets such as Ennius, and Catullus’ epyllion, poem 64, will provide insight into aesthetic and ideological variations on epic tropes. These readings will be informed by critical texts that examine the historical and social context in which they appeared, as well as broader considerations of the genre’s relation to notions of gender, history, and national identity. |
| CLASSIC 170 | COMPARATVE MYTHOLGY | CERETI, C. | Course description coming soon. |
| CLASSIC 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | GIANNOPOULOU, Z. | |
| CLASSIC 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | BRANSCOME, D. |