ANCS UN3996 THE MAJOR SEMINAR. 3.00 points.

ANCS UN3997 DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s)

ANCS UN3998 DIRCTD RSRCH-ANCIENT STUDIES I. 3.00 points.

Program of research in ancient studies under the direction of an advisor associated with the program, resulting in a research paper. Outline and bibliography must be approved by the director of undergraduate studies before credit will be awarded for ANCS V3995

CLCV UN1001 Introduction to Greek Mythology. 3.00 points.

The stories of the Greek and Roman gods and heroes are at the root of countless works of art, philosophy, literature, and film, from antiquity to the present. Many familiar phrases from the English language also derive from myth: an Achilles heel (and Achilles tendon!), a Trojan horse, Pandora’s box, and so forth. This course will introduce you to the broad range of tales that make up the complex and interconnected network of Greek and Roman mythology

CLCV UN2441 EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD. 4.00 points.

This class tracks Egypt’s entanglement in the Greco-Roman world from the country’s initial welcoming of Greek merchants and mercenaries to the point at which Justinian shuttered its last remaining temple. In examining archaeological, textual, and artistic evidence, we’ll pay close attention to the flashpoints that divided society along ethnic lines (viz. Egyptian, Nubian, Levantine, Greek, and Roman inhabitants) and according to religious belief (among polytheists of Egyptian and Greek heritage, Jewish Egyptians, and Christians) as well as to syncretism, mixed marriages, and other integrative aspects of society

CLCV UN2442 EGYPT IN CLASSICAL WORLD-DISC. 0.00 points.

CLCV BC3000 ETHNICITY, RACE, ＆POWER IN ANCT MEDITERR. 4.00 points.

Concepts of ethnicity and race – deeply complex and often fraught – are catalyzing forces in modern society. This seminar explores the changing definitions and resonances of these categories in ancient contexts. Course readings will cover a variety of societies but return repeatedly to Egypt and Nubia as a touchstone. Over the course of the semester, we will explore how Nubians and Egyptians viewed one another as well as how both Egyptians and Nubians experienced and were experienced by immigrants, colonizers, and travelers. Throughout the ancient Mediterranean, as we’ll see, self-definitions and cultural boundaries shifted radically according to changing power dynamics both within groups and between them. In seminar discussions, we’ll pose the following questions: How and when did groups who saw themselves as distinct from one another cooperate and intermarry? Define themselves in opposition to other groups or actively blur boundaries? Mobilize concepts of ethnicity or race to justify oppression? Engage in competition or resistance? Where, we will ask, did societies fracture and/or integrate? And what role did bicultural individuals play in cultural conversations and mediations? We will also seek to understand how our conceptions of ethnicity and race in the past are influenced not only by the biases of the present but by the methodologies we employ. In our discussions and investigations this semester we will learn a great deal about Northeast Africa in antiquity – but, so too, about ethnicity, concepts of race, and power throughout the ancient Mediterranean

CLCV UN3010 Talking Animals and Other Worlds: The Fable ＆ Wisdom Literature From Aesop to Jesus and Beyond. 3.00 points.

Fables have long been considered sources of popular wisdom and education throughout the entire ancient Mediterranean, marked by a diversity of literary, ethnic, geographic, political, and class associations. Further, fable traditions have rather complicated oral and written receptions, often connected to historical/authorial figures or fable collectors such as Ahiqar, Archilochos, Aesop, Callimachus, Jesus, Babrius, and Phaedrus. Offering various approaches to world building and sometimes contradictory ethical and social reflections, fables and their traditions serve as the ideal ground for exploring a variety of literary, methodological, and sociological questions from the iron age to late antiquity.This course offers an exploration in translation of the fable as a cross-cultural and multi-lingual discursive form that challenges assumptions around canon formation, authorship, the socio-historical conditions of the "literary", and western literary narratives of cultural reception

CLCV UN3059 WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 3.00 points.

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

This seminar looks at the narrative and the historical context for an extraordinary event: the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander III of Macedonia, conventionally known as “Alexander the Great”. We will explore the different worlds Alexander grew out of, confronted, and affected: the old Greek world, the Persian empire, the ancient near-east (Egypt, Levant, Babylonia, Iran), and the worlds beyond, namely pre-Islamic (and pre-Silk Road) Central Asia, the Afghan borderlands, and the Indus valley. The first part of the course will establish context, before laying out a narrative framework; the second part of the course will explore a series of themes, especially the tension between military conquest, political negotiation, and social interactions. Overall, the course will serve as an exercise in historical methodology (with particular attention to ancient sources and to interpretation), an introduction to the geography and the history of the ancient world (classical and near-eastern), and the exploration of a complex testcase located at the contact point between several worlds, and at a watershed of world history

CLCV UN3101 The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia. 3 points.

Thanks to the pyramids of Giza, the treasure of Tutankhamun, and other remains of royal activity, pharaonic Egypt is justly famous for its monuments and material culture. Equally fascinating, if less well known, however, are the towns, fortresses, cultic centers, domestic spaces, and non-elite cemeteries that have been excavated over the past 200 years or so. The archaeology of Nubia is also little known but fascinating on many levels. This course will focus on what archaeology can reveal about life as it was experienced by individuals of all social classes. Through a combination of broad surveys and case studies of some of Egypt and Nubia’s most culturally indicative and intriguing sites, we will explore issues such as the origins of inequality, state formation and its effects, the uneasy mix of state-planned settlements and village life, urbanism, domestic and community worship, gendered spaces, ethnicity and colonialism, religious revolution and evolution, bureaucracy, private enterprise, and the effects of governmental collapse on life and death in ancient Egypt and Nubia.

CLCV BC3212 TOPICS IN ANCIENT DRAMA. 0.00-3.00 points.

This course is designed as an accompaniment to the Greek or Latin play that is put on by the Barnard and Columbia Ancient Drama Group each year, though it is open to any student interested in the aesthetics and politics of theater and drama. Course focus and some content will rotate year to year, calibrated to serve the play or plays chosen by the student director. We will read these and other relevant other plays or similarly adjacent texts, as well as scholarly literature on topics centered around the body in performance, including ancient theaters and stage space, costumes and masks, deportment and gestures, proxemics, and so on. We will also explore aspects of ancient drama and theatricality that relate to translation and reception, as well as inflections of gender and status. Other topics may include the mythic background (e.g., in epic and/or lyric), politics of aesthetics in ancient Athens, and gender-genre dynamics. Each component will extend over three or four classes and consider the ancient plays through readings of primary texts (in translation) and conceptual / contextual backgrounds. There will be an additional class hour for those who wish to read the play in the original language (signed up for as a 1-point directed reading)

CLCV GU4106 Religions of the Roman World. 3.00 points.

The goal of this course is to convey an important amount of knowledge on the religious history of the Roman empire focusing both on paganism, Christianity and Judaism and their interaction. We will study the religious space, the agents of cults and religions, rituals and networks and dynamics of power. The course will also face the challenge to reconsider the points of view from which to think the religious history of the Roman Empire and therefore it will be an invitation to revise our intellectual tools and questions towards an awareness to what is at stake when an object of religious debate emerges

CLCV GR5011 Proseminar. 1.00 point.

Proseminar is designed to offer beginning MA and PhD students an overview of (i) the major sub-disciplinary areas that are gathered under the umbrella term ‘classics’, making it a fundamentally interdisciplinary field of enquiry, and (ii) the diverse methodologies that are standardly applied in many subfields of classical research and publication

THTR UN3008 PERFORMING GREEK TRAGEDY ON THE MODERN STAGE. 3.00 points.

This course aims to explore performing Greek tragedy on the modern stage. It will include an introduction to original performance practices in ancient Greece (space, masking, choral performance, costume, acting techniques) and an examination of how artists from different contemporary theatrical traditions have adapted ancient texts in modern performances and new versions of the plays. The bulk of the course will be focused on the problems of acting, interpreting, and reinterpreting parts of three plays on the stage, Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Medea, and Sophocles’ Ajax along with a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, who teaches playwriting at Barnard, Ajax in Iraq. Students will view all or parts of particularly interesting recent productions from various theatrical traditions, which will help them to tackle challenging issues such as choral performance and choral rhythms, masking, character work, dialogues and presenting formal political debates. For contemporary actors training in Greek tragedy offers a unique opportunity to improve their performance on stage through ensemble work and representing character through speech. It enhances dramaturgical capacities that a contemporary theater practitioner must exercise in exploring theory in practice and vice versa. This class is directed to students particularly interested in dramaturgy, directing, designing, translation, and Greek tragedy as well as acting

GREK UN1101 ELEMENTARY GREEK I. 4.00 points.

For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar with reading and writing of simple Attic prose

GREK UN1121 INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK. 4.00 points.

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102)

GREK UN2101 INTERMEDIATE GREEK: PROSE. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: GREK V1101-1102 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or the equivalent. Selections from Attic prose

GREK UN3980 POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR. 3.00 points.

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty

GREK UN3996 THE MAJOR SEMINAR. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power

GREK UN3997 DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination

GREK GU4009 SELECTNS FROM GREEK LIT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: GREK V1201 and V1202, or their equivalent. Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years

GREK GR5100 Diagnostic Readings in Greek Language. 2.00 points.

This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program

GREK GR5139 ELEMENTS OF GREEK PROSE STYLE. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: at least four terms of Greek, or the equivalent. An intensive review of Greek syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Attic Greek

GREK GR8013 Sophocles and Troy. 3.00 points.

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with two ‘Trojan’ plays by Sophocles, his Ajax and Philoctetes, and to situate both within the very volatile period of Athenian political and cultural history to which they belonged. We will be exploring the dramas from a variety of angles, philological, cultural, political, ethical, rhetorical, and religious among them while considering the rich literary, mythological, and visual traditions from which both emerge (comparative primary readings will include portions of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Euripides, Sophocles’ Ichneutai, and Thucydides). In addition to close readings of both texts, students will become acquainted with the relevant epic and lyric accounts on which the dramatists draw and will also consider the rich iconography surrounding the central protagonists. Beyond highlighting important commonalities and differences between these two plays, one considered ‘early’, the other ‘late’, the class will also discuss issues of staging, dramaturgy, dance and song, and we will pay particular attention to the different modalities of voice and of chorality (informed by its lyric background) within each text. While the focus will always be on the primary texts, through the assigned secondary reading students will also be introduced to a variety of different critical approaches and methodologies: among them we will be using ideas drawn from the ‘new materialism’, anthropology, the current fields of ‘sound studies’ and animal vocalism, genre-mixing, and dance theory. The innovative nature of Sophoclean music will also be highlighted, and students will be encouraged to explore the two plays’ reception and changing fortunes in a variety of media down to the present day

GREK GR8015 TIME AND TEMPO IN HOMER AND SAPPHO. 3.00 points.

This seminar sets Homer's Iliad and Sappho's lyric poems in relation to each other around topics involving time – including narrative time, beginnings and endings, timeliness, and temporality, as well as rhythm and tempo, syncopation, bodily timing and performance, and chronotopic dynamics. It proposes to think as well about textual time, meaning both how different genres orchestrate time and tempo but also how these authors are treated in ancient and modern reception. We will read theoretical studies of time and temporality, the event, and periodicity, as well as those more focused on genre and occasional performance. Discussions will center around close attendance on specific images and dynamics in the ancient texts, as well as the ways in which theoretical frames may illuminate these. Thus, for instance, seminars juxtapose the epic punctuation of bodies in space with Sappho's female lovers on the move, with scholarly readings deployed to critique the epic-lyric divide around these dynamics. A central and recurrent figure in this scheme is Helen, who is presented in Homeric epic as the central catalyst for the violent unfolding of events (i.e., the Trojan War) and who functions in lyric poetry as a cathexis for the violent consequences of desire

LATN UN1101 ELEMENTARY LATIN I. 4.00 points.

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry

LATN UN1102 ELEMENTARY LATIN II. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101.
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted

LATN UN1121 INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN. 4.00 points.

LATN UN2101 INTERMEDIATE LATIN I. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101-V1102, or LATN V1121, or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 ＆ UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero

LATN UN2102 INTERMEDIATE LATIN II. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V1201 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny

LATN UN3309 LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit

LATN UN3012 AUGUSTAN POETRY. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics

LATN UN3980 POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR. 3.00 points.

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty

LATN UN3996 THE MAJOR SEMINAR. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power

LATN UN3997 DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination

LATN UN3998 SUPERVISED RSRCH IN LATIN LIT. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Latin literature. Research paper required

LATN GU4009 LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit

LATN GR5100 Diagnostic Readings in Latin Language. 2.00 points.

This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program

LATN GR5139 ELEMENTS LATIN PROSE STYLE. 4.00 points.

Prerequisites: at least four semesters of Latin, or the equivalent. Intensive review of Latin syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Latin

LATN GR8010 Catullus in Context. 3.00 points.

This class considers the work of Catullus in the context of the history of Latin personal poetry.A master of multiple genres and meters, Catullus wrote poems ranging in length from two to 408 lines and in topic from love to political invective to mythological narrative and beyond. Of profound influence on subsequent Latin poetry, Catullus was also part of a vibrant literary scene in mid-first-century BCE Rome, of whose productions (with the exception of Lucretius) only fragments survive. We will read Catullus in tandem with his predecessors, his contemporaries (including notably the so-called Neoterics), and his immediate successors, in order to gain a sense of his significance and place within the development of Latin literature. The class is open to graduate students, as well as to advanced postbaccalaureate and undergraduate students with the permission of the instructor