| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| CLASSIC 5 | LATIN/GREEK ROOTS IN ENGLISH | STAFF | Studies in the formation and use of English words from Greek and Latin derivatives. Particularly useful for first-year students who wish to augment their vocabulary systemically. No prerequisites. |
| CLASSIC 36B | CLASSICAL GREECE | CLAXTON, C. | This course is a survey of classical Greece society and its main cultural achievements, specifically in the fields of literature, philosophy, historiography, and art. Special attention will be paid to these achievements as a reaction or response to the major historical events of the period and to their overall cultural settings. Readings, will include selections from the works of ancient authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plato and others. Quizzes, one short paper; midterm and final examinations. 36ABC fulfills the Humanistic Inquiry Breadth requirement. Three lectures and one discussion section per week. No prerequisites. |
| CLASSIC 45B | THE HEROES | ZISSOS, P. | Classics 45B is the second part of the Classical Mythology series. This course will focus on the most important Greek and Roman myths and legends and the influence they have had on later thought, art, music and literature. Some of the topics to be discussed in this class will be: myth and psychology, the ideology of mythic narrative, and the survival of classical myth in later western culture. We will use a standard textbook, but the focus will be on reading heroic epic, including the story of Jason and the Argonauts, Homer\'s Odyssey, and Virgil\'s Aeneid. The course will make regular use of visual materials and computer resources. The grade will be based on a combination of quizzes and exams. Prerequisites: the series Classics 45 ABC should be taken in sequence, therefore, students enrolling in 45B should have already taken 45A. The Classics 45 ABC series satisfies the Humanistic Inquiry Breadth requirement. |
| CLASSIC 160 | HELEN OF TROY | PANTELIA, M. | Standing at the center of the Trojan legend, Helen of Troy embodies an
extraordinary paradox: at one extreme she is the most highly valued prize for which men are willing to fight and die; at another extreme she is an adulteress and the source of deep shame. Starting with Homer, ancient authors, generated multiple characterizations of her as heartlessly evil, sympathetically chastened, or subject to forces beyond her control. This course will examine the various literary treatments of the myth of Helen in antiquity and attempt to reconstruct a cohesive picture of the changing nature and character of the Homeric heroine. We will read selections from epic (Homer) and lyric poetry (Sappho, Alcaeus and Stesichorus), Herodotus, Theocritus and Virgil, Euripides plays Helen and the Trojan Women, Gorgias\' and Isocrates\' Helen orations and representative medieval and modern (including film) adaptations of the Helen myth. There are no
prerequisites. Final grade will be based on midterm and final
examinations, possibly an oral presentation and class participation. |
| CLASSIC 170 | GREEK LAW & SOCIETY | LAPE, S. | This course examines the legal regulation of private behavior and morality in classical Athens. It considers how Athenian law defined and treated sexual offenses, murder, impiety, treason, and crimes against kinship. It also considers the role of the jury courts as vehicles of popular entertainment, the relationship between law and literature, and the position of women in Greek society. Readings include Sophocles Antigone, Plato Trial and Death of Socrates, Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes, and Demosthenes Against Neaira. |
| CLASSIC 220 | THUCYDIDES BOOK 4 | LATTIMORE, S. | |
| CLASSIC 220 | PLUTARCH | GLIDDEN, D. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | CLAXTON, C. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | LAPE, S. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | PANTELIA, M. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | SUTTON, D. | |
| CLASSIC 280 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | ZISSOS, P. | |
| CLASSIC 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | ZISSOS, P. | |