Spring 2025
This course presents an overview of the highlights of Roman civilization with particular emphasis on major literary works and how they reflect Roman culture. The discussion sections will provide supplementary information and an opportunity to discuss topics addressed in the lectures.
This course provides a broad-based introduction to the archaeology of the ancient Romans from Rome’s origins in the Iron Age down to the disintegration of the Roman empire in the sixth century A.D.
This course is intended as an introduction to the themes, characters, and images of Greek and Roman myth.
An introduction to some of the most important works of classical antiquity that theorize about literature.
This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence that will enable you to start reading unabridged texts in ancient Greek, the language of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, and Plato.
In this course, we will read selected passages from Herodotus’ Histories in Greek, as well as the entire work in English translation. We will approach the text both as a source for Archaic Greek history and as a literary work. Themes for discussion will include: Herodotus’ ethnographies of non-Greek peoples; the relationship of his historiē with epic, tragedy, natural philosophy, and early prose writing; his account of the Greco-Persian Wars of the early fifth century BCE; and his reception in antiquity and beyond.
Latin 2 is the second half of a two-semester language sequence preparing students to read Classical Latin. The course focuses on the dialect of Latin used by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, and Ovid.
Extensive readings from Virgil's Aeneid in Latin, combined with grammar review to introduce you to reading Latin poetry with understanding and enjoyment.
This is the second part of the graduate survey of Latin literature. We will be reading from the Latin literature of the Roman empire (Augustan period to the late Empire); the selected readings are diverse in genre and style in order to reflect the diversity of literary production in the imperial period.
