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  • CLAS 202a: Myth

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines ancient myth from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It compares Greek and Roman myth with other mythic traditions and explores different versions of the same myth within Greek and Roman culture. We also consider transformations of ancient myths into modern versions. Literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence provide ways to understand the function of myth in ancient Greek and Roman society. Instructor to be announced.
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  • CLAS 210b: Greek Art and Architecture

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Art 210) Mr. Abbe..
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  • CLAS 211b: Roman Art and Architecture

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Art 211) Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • CLAS 216b: History of the Ancient Greeks

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as History 216) This course examines the history and culture of the ancient Greeks from the emergence of the city-state in the eighth century BCE to the conquests of Alexander the Great in 335 BCE. In addition to an outline of the political and social history of the Greeks, the course examines several historical, cultural, and methodological topics in depth, including the emergence of writing, Greek colonialism and imperialism, ancient democracy, polytheism, the social structures of Athenian society, and the relationship between Greeks and other Mediterranean cultures. Students both read primary sources (for example, Sappho, Tyrtaios, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Plato) and examine sites and artifacts recovered through archaeology; the development of students' critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. Ms. Olsen. Prerequisite: Classics 101, 102, 103, or 104, or 1 unit in History or special permission.
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  • CLAS 217b: History of the Ancient Romans

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as History 217) This course examines the history of the ancient Romans from the foundation of their city around the eighth century BCE to the collapse of their Mediterranean Empire in the fifth century CE. The course offers a broad historical outline of Roman history, but focuses on significant topics and moments in Roman history, including the Republican aristocracy, the civil and slave wars of the Late Republic, the foundation of the Empire by Caesar Augustus, urbanism, the place of public entertainments (gladiatorial combats, Roman hunts, chariot races, and theater) in society, the rise of Christianity, the processes of Romanization, and barbarization, and the political decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Students read primary sources such as Plautus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, and secondary accounts dealing with important issues such as slavery, religious persecution and multiculturalism. Students also examine important archaeological sites and artifacts. The development of students' critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. Mr. Lott. Prerequisite: Classics 101, 102, or 103, or 1 unit in History or special permission. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • CLAS 283b: Women in Antiquity

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Women's Studies 283) Greek and Roman literary and historical accounts abound with vividly drawn women such as Helen, Antigone, Medea, Livia, and Agrippina, the mother of Nero. But how representative were such figures of the daily lives of women throughout Greek and Roman antiquity This course investigates the images and realities of women in the ancient Greek and Roman world, from the Greek Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE) to the Roman Empire (up to the III c. CE) by juxtaposing evidence from literature, historical sources, and archaeological material. Throughout, the course examines the complex ways in which ancient women interacted with the institutions of the state, the family, religion, and the arts. Ms. Olsen.
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  • CLAS 289b: City,Palace,and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines the development of cities in the Ancient West Asian, Aegean, Roman, and Late Antique society. It examines how urban form, viewed through the lenses of material culture and text, can help illuminate political, socio-economic, and religious facets of cultures for which the historical record is poor. Emphasis is placed on understanding how current remains are studied to reveal past realities; on considering the relationship between city form and political economy; on "reading" the city; and on understanding daily requirements such as food and water supply, public safety, and managing growth and shrinkage. A limited sample of significant sites is studied in class; students examine additional cities for presentation. Mr. Lott.
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  • CLAS 298a: or b.Independent work

    3.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Classics 301 and 302 are offered every year. Since their topics change annually, they may be taken for credit more than once. The prerequisite for each course is one unit of Classics, Greek, or Latin at the 200-level, or, with special permission, work appropriate to the topic at the 200-level in other disciplines.
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  • CLAS 301a: Seminar in Classical Civilization

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Topic for 2008/09: Classics and Colonialism. By the beginning of the twentieth century the British Empire held sway over approximately one quarter of the world's population. Because of the central role that classical learning played in the self-definition of the British elite, this meant not only that a classical education was imposed on many colonized peoples, but also that classical learning itself became implicated in the projects of British imperialism. This course examines the ways in which these projects were both furthered and undermined by a cultural poetics that centered on the classics. We look first at how classical material was used to express colonial authority, considering, for example, the way that the Roman empire was used as an idealized model, or the role that classical education played in advancement through the Indian Civil Service, and then we turn towards the ways that classics were later appropriated by imperial subjects in moves towards decolonization and the articulation of a postcolonial poetics. Some authors that we might consider in this regard include Wole Soyinka, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott. Ms. Friedman.
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  • CLAS 302b: The Blegen Seminar

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    The course is offered by the Blegen Distinguished Visiting Research Professor or the Blegen Research Fellow in Classics, appointed annually to pursue research and lecture on his/her scholarly concerns in classical antiquity. We encourage students to take note of the fact that each Blegen Seminar is uniquely offered and will not be repeated. Since the topic changes every year, the course may be taken for credit more than once. Topic for 2008/09: An Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics. (same as Anthropology 302) Many modern languages, including English, are "sisters" in a family of languages we call "Indo-European." Although we have no documents written in their "mother" tongue, linguists have been able to reconstruct many aspects of Proto-Indo-European by working backwards from early languages in the family like Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin. This course explores the different features of language-phonology, morphology, syntax, for example-that allow us to reconstruct a completely extinct language, as well as features of its literature and culture. We examine how linguistic theory guides this reconstruction and what we learn about the form of language in general by looking back from living languages to "dead" languages to languages whose existence we can only deduce. Some knowledge of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit or another Indo-European language, or of linguistic theory, is advantageous but not required. Mr.
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