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  • CLAS 262: Performing Greece and Rome

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This course explores the fluidity of genres by focusing on tragedy and comedy. Each began as a grafted thing, a hybrid, a fusion of poetic, musical and dance genres previously developed for a variety of occasions outside the Theater of Dionysus. Fusion continued to energize both genres, and we will attend to its effects as we read several tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and comedies by Aristophanes from fifth-century Athens; a comedy by Menander from the early post-Alexandrian Greek world; comedies by Plautus and Terence from republican Rome; and a tragedy by Seneca from the imperial Rome of Nero. We will also read short selections from (or read about) the genres out of which tragedy and comedy were created and re-created, and into which they sometimes made their own incursions (e.g., heroic epic, women's laments, choral and solo lyric poetry, wisdom poetry, oratory, philosophical texts, histories, mime, farce, various kinds of dance, music and visual arts). We will especially attend to the ways tragedy and comedy inflected one another. Critical readings, along with modern productions of ancient tragedies and comedies, will guide us as we consider all these generic exchanges in light of changing conditions and occasions of theatrical performance, other public spectacles shaping the expectations of theater audiences, and the development of writing and reading as modes of performance.
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  • CLAS 289: Socrates

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Socrates was executed in 399 BCE on the charges of impiety and corruption of the youth of Athens. Apparently he corrupted the youth by engaging with them in philosophy. In this class, we will attempt to carry on the noble tradition of corruption by philosophy. We will read works by three of Socrates' contemporaries: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and especially Plato. Through an examination of these works, we will try to get some feeling for what Socrates' controversial positions and his arguments for these positions may have been. While he never wrote any philosophical works of his own, Socrates is one of the most influential thinkers in the western tradition. His thought influenced the thought of subsequent generations of philosophers. In fact, Socrates seems to have been thought of as a kind of intellectual saint in the Hellenistic world. The stoics and skeptics both claimed a Socratic imprimatur for their own thought. Stoicism and skepticism, however, are wildly divergent schools of thought. How could proponents of each be claiming to follow in the footsteps of Socrates? We will read some representative works from each of these schools of thought to see how each approaches Socrates. If time permits, we may also look at how the figure of Socrates has been thought about in the works of more modern thinkers.
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  • CLAS 466:

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

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  • CLAS 493: Senior Thesis: Classics

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Recommended for all candidates for the degree with honors. This project will normally be of one semester's duration, in addition to a Winter Study.
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  • CLAS 494: Senior Thesis: Classics

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Recommended for all candidates for the degree with honors. This project will normally be of one semester's duration, in addition to a Winter Study.
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  • CLAS 497: Independent Study: Classics

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Classics independent study. Students with permission of the department may enroll for independent study on select topics not covered by current course offerings.
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  • CLAS 498: Independent Study: Classics

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    Classics independent study. Students with permission of the department may enroll for independent study on select topics not covered by current course offerings.
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  • CLAS 499: Senior Colloquium

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This colloquium is required for all senior Classics majors and normally meets every other week for one hour in both the fall and spring semesters. Although required for the Classics major, it is a non-credit course and does not count towards the number of semester courses required for the Classics major or for graduation.
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  • CLGR 101: Introduction to Greek

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This full-year, intensive course presents the fundamentals of Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary and introduces students, in the second semester, to works of the classical period (usually Xenophon and Euripides). Prerequisite:    Designed for students who are beginning Greek or have studied less than two years of Greek in secondary school; students with some previous experience in Greek may want to enroll in CLGR 102 only (consult the department)
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  • CLGR 102: Introduction to Greek

    3.00 Credits
    Williams College

    This full-year, intensive course presents the fundamentals of Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary and introduces students, in the second semester, to works of the classical period (usually Xenophon and Euripides). Prerequisite:    CLGR 101 or permission of the department
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