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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Selected readings from Catullus and Ovid, with focus on poetic technique, and discussion of supplementary readings in English. Prerequisite: 102 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Aspects of Roman History (c. 100 BC to AD 100), including family, role and power of women, sexuality, slavery and its variants, work, the environment and its pollution, medicine, reproduction and its management, religion, philosophies, magic, gladiatorial and animal shows, and chariot racing. Readings include modern historians and primary documents (in translation). Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the lives and roles of women in three periods of Greco-Roman antiquity: Classical Greece, Late Republic/ Early Empire Rome, and Early Christian Rome. Topics include the ancient construction of gender, sexuality, marriage, and the social and legal status of women. Literary and artistic remains provide the basis of writing and discussion which will be informed by current anthropological and feminist approaches. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
A four-week course conducted in Italy (the Bay of Naples; Rome and its environs). The course is designed to integrate the study of ancient sites and artifacts with relevant readings from Latin literature. Admission by permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A four-week course conducted in Greece and Crete. The course is designed to integrate study of ancient sites and artifacts with relevant readings from Greek authors. Admission by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to the art and archaeology of ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic times: Bronze Age civilizations (Cycladic, NE Aegean and Trojan, Minoan, Helladic/Mycenaean); Protogeometric, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. A survey of architecture (temple, secular funerary), sculpture, vase-painting, monumental painting, metalwork, and minor arts of these periods, both on mainland Greece and in the Greek colonies (Asia Minor, Pontus, Syria, Phoenice, Egypt, S.I Italy and Sicily); comparative study of typological, iconographical, stylistic, and technical aspects and developments; styles and schools, regional trends, historical contextualization of ancient Greek art and brief consideration of socio-economic patterns, political organization, religion, and writing. Evaluation of the ancient Greek artistic legacy and contribution to civilization. Field trips to archaeological collections and Museums. This course is cross-listed as ARCH 120. Offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in Greek Philosophy including authors such as the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, or others. Supplementary readings in English provide historical context and an introduction to certain issues in ancient philosophy. Recommended: 112 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to the art and archaeology of the Roman world from the Late Republic to the 4th century AD. A survey of architecture (temple, public, domestic, palatial, funerary), monumental painting, sculpture, metalwork, and minor arts of these periods in Italy and the rest of the Roman world; particular emphasis on Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Greece/Asia Minor, and North Africa. Comparative study of typological, iconographical, stylistic, and technical aspects and developments; regional trends and foreign influences. Historical and cultural contextualization of Roman art and architecture with consideration of socio-economic patterns, political developments, religion, and writing. This course is cross-listed as ARCH 130. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
Readings from Roman historians such as Sallust, Caesar and Livy, with study of Roman political values. Prerequisite. 112 or the equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Selections from the Metamorphoses with study of the more important Greek and Roman myths and their modern reception. Prerequisite: 112 or the equivalent.
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