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L08 Classics 1011

First-Year Seminar: Ancient Mediterranean Textile Production

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Humans of the ancient world had to devote vast amounts of time and resources to the production of textiles such as clothing, bedding, ship's sails, and beyond. In this course you will dive into the textile production techniques of the ancient Mediterranean, with units on fiber preparation, spinning, weaving, laundry, and non-clothing textiles. In addition, we will explore the social structures (especially gender) which influence and are influenced by textile production. This course has a significant hands-on component. It will be approximately 50% engagement with scholarship and 50% studio work. That means that every week you will be participating in the processes that you are reading about. There are no required prerequisite courses or skills, but you must be ready and willing to try new things with your hands. The evidence for ancient fiber production is varied, and so the scholarship portion of this class will involve work in the fields of classical philology, art history, and archaeology.

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May 7 2025 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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L08 Classics 189

Beginning Coptic II

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After completing the remaining grammar lessons from Beginning Coptic I, we will build skill and confidence as translators by reading selections from a variety of Coptic texts: the Sahidic Gospel of Mark, the hagiographic "Life of John the Monk," selections from the Gospels of Mary and Thomas, and a unique Coptic translation of Plato's "Republic." In our readings from the Bible and Plato, those who read Classical Greek will also have the opportunity to study how ancient translators chose to render the Greek texts into Egyptian, and how, in the process of translation, they changed the meaning of the originals. Prerequisite: Classics 188 or permission of instructor.

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L23 189 L75 189

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L08 Classics 223

Ampersand: The Age of Pericles

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This seminar will explore the relationship between the sociopolitical history and cultural development of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Students will be encouraged to analyze both archeological and literary evidence throughout the process of democratization, paying particular attention to the Periclean building program, including the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, the Agora, domestic Athenian architecture, and the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. Selections from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes, the dialogues of Plato, and Aristotle's "Constitution of Athens" will highlight the functions and limitations of the democratic regime. This course is for first-year, non-transfer students in the Democracy and Myth in Ancient Greece Ampersand program.

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L08 Classics 236C

The Roman World

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An introduction to the society and culture of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire. The "Roman World" began as a small settlement by the Tiber River and became a huge and diverse empire extending into three continents, with a cultural legacy that has lasted to this day. The course will cover key events over a millennium of Roman political history, but much of our time will be given to study and analysis of Roman concepts of national identity, moral and political thought, social hierarchies and dynamics, family, religion, and entertainment. To this end, we will examine a diverse combination of primary sources - literary, documentary, and material.

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May 6 2025 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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L08 Classics 3077

From the Renaissance to Nazi Germany:Ancient Greece and Rome in German Nationalism

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In 1943 the Nazi SS stormed the Italian Villa Fontedamo in search of a book: the "Germania" of the ancient Roman historian Tacitus. Storming the villa was just one example of a quest Germans had been undertaking since the Renaissance: to find German national identity with the help of Ancient Greece and Rome. In this course, we will study the impact that Greece and Rome had on German national identity starting in the 16th century, when a group of poet-scholars transformed ancient Roman texts into central components of German national identity. We will trace it through the Enlightenment in the 17th-18th centuries and the age of imperialism in the 19th century , ending with how the Nazis reinterpreted the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome as a justification for fascism and violent nationalism. We will debate extensively and write in detail about questions of authority, identity, tolerance, and intolerance. Our goals are to understand classical culture's potential for use and abuse, and to develop tools for historical thought and insight that help us understand the past and present.

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L08 Classics 3130

Sexuality in Early Christianity

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What did Jesus of Nazareth and his early followers teach about sexuality in terms of marriage, adultery, divorce, the virtues of procreation and celibacy, same-sex relationships, and erotic desire? How and why did ancient Christians take different stances on these issues, and how do these traditions continue to inform sexual ethics and gender roles today? In this course, we will study these questions by examining key passages from the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels, Paul's letters, writings of early church leaders, martyr propaganda, monastic literature, and apocryphal books deemed heretical. We will also consider the interpretations of contemporary historians of religion informed by recent trends in sexuality and gender theories.

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May 7 2025 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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L08 Classics 3152

Gender and Sexuality in Greco-Roman Antiquity

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In this course, we'll explore how ancient Greeks and Romans thought about gender and sexuality. We'll draw on ancient texts in translation as well as visual and material culture, and we'll engage with different scholarly approaches to the topic. As we do this, we'll discuss questions such as: How did the Greeks and the Romans define masculinity and femininity? What can we tell from our sources about those who did not fit neatly into this binary? How did ancient Greeks and Romans think about male and female anatomy and psychology? How did the Greeks and the Romans construct sexuality and how did they approach homosexual and heterosexual relationships? How did class, ethnicity, and age intersect with ideas about gender and sexuality in antiquity? We'll study both societal ideals as well as individuals who broke norms. While our focus will be on the ancient world, we'll also think about how the past can provide new perspective on the present.

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L08 Classics 346C

Greek History: The Age of Alexander

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Loehr

May 6 2025 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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L08 Classics 3522

Topics in Literature: Drama Queens: Cleopatra in Elizabethan England

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Cleopatra, queen of the Nile, has become famous for her romantic liaisons, political maneuvering, and her death by snake bite. Yet Cleopatra was also a formidable military strategist, a powerful leader who studied medicine and spoke nearly a dozen languages. Most importantly, Cleopatra was the prototype for depicting strong women on the throne. This course will explore how Early Modern playwrights re-imagined Cleopatra in the Renaissance, a time which saw another strong queen, Elizabeth I, rise to power. We will pay special attention how these dramatists used Cleopatra to engage with issues of race, globalization, gender, history, and politics. Finally, we will think about how Shakespeare and his contemporaries analogized the exotic and sometimes scandalous Cleopatra with the virginal Queen Elizabeth, two women who mobilized the power of performance in order to assert female authority in their male-dominated societies. Readings may include works by Cicero, Lucan, Plutarch, and Virgil from antiquity; and plays by Marlowe, Mary Sidney, Daniel, Brandon, Elizabeth Cary, Fletcher, Dryden, and Shakespeare as well as the writings of Queen Elizabeth from the Renaissance. 3 short responses; midterm and final papers; and a presentation introducing one of the assigned readings. First-year and/or students with no prior knowledge of this topic are encouraged to enroll. Satisfies the Early Modern requirement.

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L08 Classics 3750

Topics in Comparative Literature: Pastoral Literature

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Why, in 2025, should we read and think about literature that concerns itself with the lives and loves of shepherds? This course takes the position that the reasons are multiple, provocative, and rewarding. Pastoral leads us from what may initially seem picturesque and quaint to broad, compelling questions that address how humans conceptualize and interact with nature, what the role of animals is and should be, how meanings are assigned to landscape and its preservation or destruction, and what versions of the Arcadian locus amoenus (ideally beautiful place) tell us about both conservative and revolutionary potentials of utopian thought. In this time of environmental crisis, the pastoral speaks to us with ever-increasing urgency and authority. Throughout the course, tensions between town and country, enslaved and free, elite and demotic, and sophisticated and naive will frame our discussions. Authors studied will range from Theocritus, Vergil, and Longus to Milton, Tennyson, and J. M. Barrie. Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its film adaptation by Ang Lee will cap our survey, affording us the opportunity to review many of the strands-not least of love and longing-that unite the pastoral mode. No prerequisites. Pastoral Literature can count towards major and minor requirements in Environmental Studies.

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L08 Classics 3801

Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

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May 5 2025 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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L08 Classics 4001

Independent Study

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REQUIRED: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

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L08 Classics 4235

Rome in Egypt: The Archaeology of an Oasis City

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This seminar will focus on the results of the archaeological fieldwork carried out at Trimithis / Amheida, a Graeco-Roman city in Egypt's Western Desert. It will investigate the available documentary and archaeological evidence, including a wealthy house with paintings inspired by Classical themes, a public bath built in the Roman tradition, a rhetorical schoolroom, pyramid-shaped Roman tombs, remains of a temple, and one of the earliest churches discovered in Egypt so far. We will explore how this evidence compares with that from neighboring sites in Egypt's Western Desert as well as in the Nile Valley. The goal is to develop an appreciation and understanding of Romano-Egyptian architecture, Classical and late antique art in Egypt, and Egypt's religious, social, and cultural history. Students will also have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with notions of archaeological methods and practice, as adopted in the context of an Egyptian excavation project. Prerequisites: One course at the 100- or 200-level in Art History, Classics, or Archaeology recommended

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L08 Classics 4250

The Archaeology of Christian Monasticism

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Early monasticism was a phenomenon that had a dramatic impact on the Christianization of the physical and spiritual landscape of the Mediterranean world in Late Antiquity. This seminar will explore the origins and earliest manifestations of Christian monasticism, with a particular attention to the evidence from Egypt, which is among the earliest and richest available. Students will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a wide range of relevant primary and secondary sources. The aim is to build an understanding and appreciation for one of the earliest and most unique manifestations of Christian life, whose legacy continues to this day.

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L01 4250 L08 5250 L23 4252 L48 4255

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L08 Classics 429

Art and Death in Ancient Rome

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Perhaps more than any other phenomenon, death spurred the creation of art in the ancient Roman world. The practice of materially commemorating the deceased -- of perpetuating the memory of the dead through the creation of funerary monuments designed to appeal to both intimate familial relations and the public at large -- stretched across Roman social boundaries and endured for many centuries. But death also frequently provided the subject matter of art even outside the confines of the funerary realm. The goal of this course will be to explore the complex relationship between art and death in the Roman world. It will range from early Rome to the end of the empire and the changes brought about by widespread conversion to Christianity. In conjunction with historical readings, the course will also engage with theoretical texts in the anthropology and philosophy of death. Prerequisites: Intro to Western Art (L01 113) or Intro to Modern Art (L01 215); one 300-level course in Art History preferred; or permission of instructor.

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L01 429 L01 5292 L08 5529 L23 4290

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L08 Classics 4350

Hellenistic Philosophy

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The Hellenistic Age, traditionally dated from the death of Alexander and his (Macedonian) Empire at 323 BCE to the birth of Augustus' (Roman) Empire in 31 BCE, gave the West three of its most innovative and influential schools of philosophy: Epicureanism, Skepticism, and Stoicism. This course investigates the central features of their thought. Special attention is paid to the still-relevant debates between the Stoics and Skeptics about the possibility of knowledge, to the disagreements among all three schools about the issues of freedom, responsibility, and determinism, and to their ethical theories. Prerequisites: one course in Philosophy at the 300-level, graduate standing, or permission of the instructor.

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L30 4530 L08 5533 L30 5530

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May 6 2025 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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L08 Classics 462

Ancient Greek and Roman Music

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L08 Classics 493

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Suggested for all majors in Classics or Ancient Studies who have not completed their college 'capstone' experience in another major, or who are not satisfying this requirement by means of a Senior Honors Thesis in Classics, Greek, or Latin, or in some other way. A structured research assignment or independent project under the supervision of one of the department's faculty is required. Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission of the Chair of the Department.

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L08 Classics 498

Study for Honors

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Students interested in pursuing honors should consult the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics. Prereq: Overall GPA of 3.65.

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