GRKM W4250y. The Greek Islands 1600-present. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:GRKM V1201-GRKM V1202 or permission of the instructor

Texts in Greek and English. Selective survey of key literary texts from Crete, the Ionian Isles, the Cyclades, and the Dodecannese as well as western texts about these topoi. Sometime island paradises and retreats; othertimes sites of political internment or occupation, texts will be read in historical specificity, in linguistic, cultural, political, utopic terms. Texts will include selections from Kornaros's Erotokritos, Jesuit Cycladic theater, folksongs, Solomos, Papadiamantis, Theotokis, Venezis, Elytis, Ritsos, Karapanou as well as some Greek and foreign contemporary films.

CLGM W4290 (Section 001). GREECE AT THE CROSSROADS. 4 pts.

This course introduces students to key aspects of Modern Greek culture as well as to faculty at Columbia working on Greece in different departments. Readings focus on moments when Greece's position at the crossroads between East and West become comparatively relevant to particular disciplines. Students study works by poets, novelists, filmmakers, literary critics, historians, anthropologists and architects; Columbia faculty and invited guests then discuss their own scholarship in these fields. Texts are available in both English and Greek. The course can be taken with a one-credit extra hour tutorial for advanced students reading materials in Greek.

CLGM W4390 (Section 001). THE POLITICS OF POIEIN: GREEK. 3 pts.

This course stages an imaginary dialogue between certain Greek poets, whose work spans the 20th century, and poets of the same era from other parts of the world, for whom Greek motifs are crucial to their poetic sensibility. These motifs may pertain to both ancient and modern figures of Hellenism, but even when the figures are recognizably ancient the assumption is that they extend themselves to an outmaneuverable modernity. Indeed, by staging this dialogue, the course will engage in interrogations of modernity and, moreover, the specific ways in which figures of modernity and figures of Hellenism are entwined. At the same time, we will pay close attention to different articulations of poi?sis, especially as they pertain to a certain politics. The literary historical sphere spans the range of early modernism to postmodernism and postcolonialism, as well as specific poetic-political sensibilities, whether aestheticist or Marxist, feminist or queer.

ANCS G8210. Alexandrianism In Roman Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the reception of Alexandrian poetry and literary theory in Rome, from the time of Ennius to the early Empire, with particular emphasis on the development of Roman poetics from the neotericism of Catullus through the classicism of high Augustan poetry to Ovid and his imitators. Topics include claims of poetic originality and inspiration; the recusatio; problems of adapting and adopting Greek models (diction, metrics, subject-matter); theory of poetic genre; satire and parody. Authors include Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Ovid, Persius, and Seneca (Apocolocyntosis).

ANCS G9310. Prefaces To History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. The aims and methods of Greek historians as expressed in the prefaces to their writings. Analysis of programmatic prefaces to history reveal the differences between various methodological approaches to the composition of historical narrative

CLCV W4100y. The Ancient Curriculum. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will study the characteristics, changes, and curriculum of education in the Greek and Roman worlds. The first few weeks will concern education in classical Greece, specifically the sophists and Plato. Then the course will proceed to Hellenistic and Roman times and will cover the three fundamental stages of a liberal education taught by the elementary teacher, the grammarian, and the rhetor. Particular emphasis will be put on rhetorical education. This course will be based on literary and archaeological sources and on the abundant educational material from Greco-Roman Egypt. It will be structured as a mixture of lectures, readings, and discussions of primary and secondary sources, archaeological material, and examination of school exercises and texts on papyri. The readings, which also include my translations of the letters of the fourth century teacher of rhetoric Libanius to students and parents, are available in English.

GRKM W4300y. C.P. Cavafy: Poetry at a Slight Angle. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

CLPH G4901x and y-G4902 (Section 001). Directed Reading. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

CLLT G8223x. Silver Epic. Not offered in 2009-2010.

LATN G8223y. Silver Epic. 3 pts.

The Epics of the Silver Period of Latin with an emphasis on close-reading.

CLPH G8901x and y-G8902 (Section 001). Directed Reading and Research.. 1-3 pts. Prerequisites: Departmental permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

CLPH G9320. Comic Parody of Tragedy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Seminar on a detailed study of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Frogs with particular emphasis on the comic poet's parody of Euripides; an examination of scenes from Euripidean dramas and readings in English on ancient and modern theories of parody.

CLPH G9340. The Sophists. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. A study of the sophistic movement in general, followed by a detailed examination of the main evidence for the thought of Protagoras, Gorgias, the anonymous Iamblichus and the work On Twofold Arguments.

ANCS W4010. Roman Imperialism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems in the analysis and interpretation of the growth of Roman power between the 4th century B.C.E. and the 2nd century C.E. The origins of the Romans' drive to expand, the theory of defensive imperialism, economic aspects, Roman techniques of control, and the effects of the Empire on the Romans themselves and on their subjects.

ANCS W4015. Roman Law. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. History of the development of Roman law and legal thought. The role of law in Roman society. Introductions to Roman methods of legal analysis, with emphasis on study and class discussion of cases from the Roman jurists.

ANCS W4021. The Development of the Greek Polis. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Traces the development of the polis or city-state as the dominant sociopolitical unit in ancient Greece, looking at how and why this development took place and what effect it had on Greek society and culture.

CLCV W4100. The Handwritten Book. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. How books were made in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, covering the physical characteristics of handwritten books (scripts, illustrations and illuminations, bindings, writing materials), the context in which books were created (monastic scriptorium, cathedral library, the early bookshops), and the audience which determined their use and contents.

CLLT W4100. The Reception of Antiquity. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introduction to the heritage of classical antiquity, primarily Greece, in later European culture. Topics include translation, iconography, the history of classical scholarship, architectural and artistic manifestations of the classical tradition, Greek tragedy on stage and film, and images of Athens and Sparta.

CLCV W4105x. Homosexuality in the Ancient World. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The course will examine the homosexual practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the representation of these practices in literature and art. It will emphasize the differences between ancient and modern constructions of sexuality, but also the faultlines between the two ancient cultures and within each of them. Authors read will include: Sappho, Theognis, Aristophanes, Plato, Aeschines, Plutarch, Catullus, Vergil, Petronius, and Martial.

CLCV W4110y. Gender and Sexuality In Ancient Greece. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor.

Examination of the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed in ancient Greek society and represented in literature and art, with attention to scientific theory, ritual practice, and philosophical speculation. Topics include conceptions of the body, erotic and homoerotic literature and practice, legal constraints, pornography, rape, and prostitution.

CLCV W4130y. Cities and Sanctuaries. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The development of major elements and noteworthy peculiarities of Greek cities and sanctuaries. Emphasis on individual monuments and arrangement of sites and their political, social, and religious functions throughout the Greek world from the rise of city-states through the formation of the Roman provinces.

CLCV W4145x. Ancient Political Theory. 3 pts.

An examination of ancient political theory in its social and philosophical context. Topics will include constitutional theory, the origins and legitimation of government, ethics and politics, the regulation of private life, the rule of law, and the cosmopolis. Authors will include the Sophists, Plato (Republic, Laws, Statesman), Aristotle (Politics), Cicero (Republic and Laws), Polybius, Dio of Prusa (On Kingship, Borysthenic Oration), and Augustine (City of God).

ANCS G4250. Greek Sculpture and Painting of the 4th Century B.C. 3 pts. Survey of 4th-century sculpture and painting, with emphasis on the work of the major sculptors: Praxiteles, Skopas, and Lysippus.

ANCS G4255. Hellenistic Art. 3 pts. Greek art from Lysippus to the end of the 1st century B.C.E. Development of the Hellenistic style, its regional variants, principal monuments, and major themes.

ANCS G4263. Roman Art.. 3 pts. Italians, Etruscans, and the development of Roman art from the Republic to the Early Empire.

ANCS G4270. Roman Art From Augustus To Trajan. 3 pts. Roman art from Trajan to Constantine.

CLLT W4300y. The Classical Tradition. 3 pts.

Overview of Greek and Roman literature. Close analysis of selected texts from the major genres accompanied by lectures on literary history. Topics include the context out of which the genres arose, the suitability of various modern critical approaches to the ancient texts, the problem of translation, and the transmission of the classical authors and their influence on modern literature.

CLLT W4310. Myth and Ritual. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Continuation of Classical Literature W3132. Emphasis on the organization of myth and the persistence of ritual. Survey of different ways of approaching traditional stories. Comparisons from non-Western cultures for the analysis of origins and transformations of myths

ANCS G6273. Roman Art: Trajan To Constantine. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Some knowledge of Antiquity and German useful. Roman art from Trajan to Constantine; examination of Roman figural art, painting, mosaic, sculpture, their principal modes and themes of representation, and an analysis of the late antiquity.

ANCS G8033. Colloquium: War and Society In Ancient Greece. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the dynamic relationship between the evolving ways in which Greek society was structured, and the ways in which the Greeks organized themselves for and conducted warfare at the different stages of their social evolution.

ANCS G8049. Colloquium On Roman History: the Late Republic and Augustus. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems in the social, economic, and religious history of the Roman empire in the period from 100 B.C.E. to 14 C.E.

ANCS G8051. Colloquium On Roman History: the Roman Empire 14 - 235 C.E.. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Problems in the social, economic, and religious history of the Roman empire.

ANCS G8090. Colloquium On Ancient Egyptian History: Socio-Economic History. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. Readings of some major recent contributions to the study of the social and economic history of ancient Egypt.

ANCS G8240. Sexuality In Greek and Roman Art. 3 pts. Current scholarship on sexuality in Classical art and culture. Emphasis on depiction of sexual identity and activity, and on contribution of visual culture to the construction of ideas about sexuality and sexual practices.

ANCS G8249. Human Types In Greek Art, 4th Century B.C. Through Hellenistic Period. 3 pts. Analysis of the creation, evolution, and significance of typologically discrete representations of humanity in Greek art, in particular the imagery of (a) statesmen, dynastic rules, and intellectuals, (b) socially distinctive categories of age, gender, and status, and (c) ethnic and cultural markers of non-Greeks.

ANCS G8260. Gender and Status In Roman Art. 3 pts. Understanding the effects of social categories of gender and class on Roman art. Focus on the way gender and class-based patronage, audience, and artistic practice interact to help shape monuments, and the way those monuments can give physical form to social relationships and ideologies.

ANCS G8270. Roman Art In the Time of Trajan. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of German. Art and architecture from the late 90s through 117 C.E. during the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan. Exploration of Roman art, imperial imagery, patronage, the relationship between the culture of the city of Rome and that of the provinces.

ANCS G8276. Roman Sarcophagi. 3 pts. Mythological subjects, narrative modes.

ANCS G8290. Roman Provincial Art. 3 pts. Art in the Roman provinces, east and west.

ANCS G8408. Ovidian Themes In Antiquity and Renaissance. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Background in classical, medieval, or Renaissance studies. Visual interpretations of mythological themes narrated in Ovid's Metamorphoses, from Roman antiquity through medieval adaptations and transformations to the revival of classical form in the Renaissance. Problems of tradition and transmission, narrative mode, genre and medium, visual hermeneutics.

ANCS G9041. Seminar On Ancient History of the Near East: Imperialism. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Compares several empires of the ancient Near East with the territorial empires of New Kingdom Egypt, of Assyria and Babylonia in the first millennium, and of ancient Persia, and the trade empire of the Phoenicians. Use of the term "empire" within ancient Near Eastern history, and determination of the common means of imperial administration and management within examples.

ANCS G9900. Dissertation and Prospectus Seminar. 3 pts. For all students in Ancient History, Classical Studies, and Classics who are preparing a disseration prospectus or who are in the early stages of working on the dissertation. Students circulate for discussion drafts of dissertation prospectuses and other work in progress related to the dissertation.

GREK W4006. Thucydides. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Greek V1201 and V1202 or their equivalent. A close reading of Thucydides Book 2 with consideration of its function in the History as a whole.

GREK W4009x. Satyr Play and Comedy. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Prerequisite: 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. Topic for 2007-2008: Plato

GREK W4010y. Selections From Greek Literature: Hesiod and Homeric Hymns. 3 pts. Prerequisites: GREK V1201-V1202 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2008: Sophocles

GREK W4105x. History of Greek Literature I. 4 pts. Prerequisites: At least two terms of Greek at the 3000 level or higher.

Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.

GREK W4106y. History of Greek Literature II. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: At least two terms of Greek at the 3000 level or higher.

Greek literature of the 4th century B.C. and of the Hellenistic and Imperial Ages.

GREK G4135. The Erotokritos: Literature and Society In Renaissance Crete. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A cross-disciplinary examination of literature and society in Renaissance Crete throught a reading of Vitsentzos Kornaros's Erotokritos. Close textual analyses of this whimsical romance in verse and projects on broader aspects of Venetian and Cretan culture. Attention paid to questions of gender.

GREK W4139x. Greek Prose Composition. 3 pts. 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 W4150. The Greek Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the phonology and morphology of the Greek language; study of vowels and consonants, noun and verb formation, and characteristics of the Greek dialects, in the light of the relation of Greek to Proto-Indo-European and the comparison of Greek forms to other PIE (Proto-Indo-European) languages, demonstrating how the comparative method in historical linguistics accounts for the evolution of the Greek language.

GREK W4210y. Topics in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Before taking this course, it is encouraged that you read Nichomachean Ethics and Plato's Protagoras in English. The course will be devoted to reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in ancient Greek and discussions will focus on concepts found therein.

GREK G6246y. Literary Papyrology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. This course intends to give a student the capacity to handle literary texts on papyrus written in Greek and Latin. Students will learn to distinguish book hands from documentary hands, will read and evaluate ancient writing according to style, and will learn to edit new texts. A final paper will consist of the edition of a text and the comparison with other texts in the same tradition.

GREK G6250. Greek Paleography and Textual Criticism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the main kinds of Greek scripts and to the chief problems in editing and interpreting Greek texts; the history and transmission of Greek authors.

GREK G6254x. Greek Epigraphy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Introduction to the use of inscriptions in the Greek world. Readings come principally from published texts of Greek inscriptions of the classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, chosen to illustrate the range and contents of our major source of information for most Greek cities. Attention also to the technique of inscriptions and to their sociological function.

GREK G8024y. Plato's Phaedrus. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A detailed study of the Phaedrus based on lectures, reports and discussions.

GREK G8024. Plato: Symposium. 3 pts. A detailed study of the philosophical, literary, historic, and rhetorical aspects of the Symposium.

GREK G8024. Aristotle: Poetics. 3 pts. A detailed study of the philosophical, literary, historic, and rhetorical aspects of the Symposium.

GREK G8215. Aristotle: Poetics. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: six semesters of Greek. A close study of the Poetics and its Platonic background.

GREK G8219y. Hellenistic Poetry of the 3rd Century BC. 3 pts. This course sets Hellenistic poetry within its own intellectual and cultural context. Poems will be investigated as a case study of adaptation of the archaic and classical genres in conditions of partial socio-cultural discontinuity. Attention will also be paid to modernist interpretations.

GREK G8221. Homer's Odyssey. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Detailed critical analysis of Homer's Odyssey with particular emphasis on the second half of the song. Seminar considers the concept of the hero's return, the themes of story telling, disguise and recognition, and father-son relations. Focus on the figures of Helen and Penelope, discussions of representations of Odysseus in later Neo-Platonic and early Christian texts.

GREK W8241. Aeschylus' Oresteia. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Intensive study of the Agamemnon and passages from the remaining plays in the trilogy. Major problems in the study of Aeschylean drama.

GREK G8248. Brothers and Sisters In Greek Tragedy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the evolving representation of brothers and sisters in Homer and in Greek tragedy with emphasis on the latter. The growth of individual differences in such representations in Sophocles and Euripides, the contrast between legitimate and illegitimate siblings and the possible relevance of the representations of brothers and sisters to the problem of citizenship bonds in the 5th-century Athenian democracy.

GREK G8250. Euripides' Tragicomedies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Detailed critical analysis of Euripides' Ion, Helen, and Iphigeneia in Tauris in the context of late Euripidean drama. The course will emphasize questions of genre and methodology and the relations among myth, ritual, and tragedy.

GREK G8251. The Chorus In Greek Tragedy. Not offered in 2009-2010. A detailed study of the role of the tragic chorus in one play by each of the major tragic poets: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The origin of the tragic chorus, choral performance, the use of meter, choral identity and character, and choral songs (both act-dividing songs and songs shared by actors and chorus).

GREK G8253. The Chorus In Greek Tragedy. 3 pts. Seminar on dreams in Greek literature and society from Homer to the Empire. The record of miraculous cures through dream visions from genres: Homer, tragedy, comedy, historiography and novel philosophical text: Plato and Aristotle; medical theories: technical treatises on the interpretation of dreams and inscriptions (Epidauros); speeches: Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales.

GREK G8260. Pindar and Bacchylides. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines the complex lyric poetry of Pindar and Bacchylides in terms of the structural conventions of praise poetry, and the occasions of the poems' performance and their use of myth and imagery.

GREK G8310. The Greek Novel. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The five major Greek novels of the first to third centuries C.E. Particular emphasis on questions of genre and the history of ideas, and on the novel as evidence for the society and culture of the Roman Empire.

GREK G8390x. Ancient Literary Criticism. 3 pts. This seminar will address ancient Greek (and a
few Latin) ideas about the themes, arguments, and style of poetry and prose. We shall look at the fragments of technai(technical treatises on speech composition), as well as excerpts from Aristophanes' Cloudsand Frogs, Aristotle's Poeticsand Rhetoric, Ps.-Demetrius' On Style, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus' writings on Attic oratory. The discussion will also take into account the Hellenistic and neoteric poets' contributions to literary debates, as well as those of Cicero and Horace.

GREK G8400. Antidemocratic Thought In Classical Athens. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Basic themes in 5th- and 4th-century criticism of Athenian democracy, especially in its radical or demagogic form, and recommended alternatives. Texts read, in part or in whole: Aristotle, Politics and Constitution of the Athenians; Isocrates, Areopagiticus; Plato, Republic(Books VIII & IX); Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedemonians; Ps. Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians.

GREK G8402. Legal Representations In Athens. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Plato's Apology and Isocrates' Antidosis. Central issues include history of (auto)biography, self-representation in the democratic polis; role of intellectual in the polis; rhetoric and/versus philosophy; Attic law. Participants are encouraged to bring similar texts to seminar for discussion and consideration.

GREK G8430. Views of the City In Greek Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The evolution of the perception of civic space from Homer to the Second Sophistic, focusing on specific periods and various literary genres. Combination of social history and literary criticism.

GREK G8500x (Section 001). Greek Rhetoric. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of Demosthenes 18 and Aeschines 3 with special attention to issues of character defamation as relevant passages from Aristotle's Rhetoric on characterization.

GREK G9240. Liberating Orestes: Aeschylus' Eumenides and Euripides' Orestes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A literary, historical, and philosophical perspective on the way that two different Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Eumenides and Euripides' Orestes resolve the problems posed by Orestes' matricide.

LATN W4008. Cicero. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: Latin V3012 or the equivalent. An introduction to the range of Ciceronian public writings and to the social and intellectual context in which they were composed. Selections from all the major genres of his works.

LATN W4009x. Selections From Latin Literature: Roman Comedy. 3 pts. Prerequisites:LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

LATN W4010y. Selections From Latin Literature: Livy. 3 pts. Prerequisites:LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2007: Elegy

LATN W4105x. Latin Literature of the Republic. 4 pts. Prerequisites: At least two terms of Latin at the 3000 level or higher.

Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.

LATN W4106y. Latin Literature of the Empire. 4 pts. Prerequisites: At least two terms of Latin at the 3000 level or higher.

Latin literature from Augustus to 600 C.E.

LATN W4139y. Elements of Latin Prose Style. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. 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 W4140y. Latin Stylistics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:LATN W4139 or the equivalent

The study of the development of Latin prose style through practice in composition.

LATN W4150. The Latin Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: Latin 3012 or equivalent. Introduction to the development of the Latin language, including historical phonology and morphology, archaic Latin, the development of literary Latin, and colloquial and vulgar Latin texts.

LATN W4152y. Medieval Latin Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years. Topic for 2006-2007: Learning and the Learned. What did it mean to learn Latin and/or to learn in Latin in the Middle Ages? What was learned and how? Who was considered learned? Readings and discussion of medieval Latin sources about memory; exegesis/commentary: biblical, philosophical, literary; gendered learning; the guidelines for poetry, preaching, etc. Authors include Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Abelard, the Victorines, and Hildegard of Bingen.

LATN G6154y. Latin Paleography. 3 pts. Study of the development of Latin scripts from the Carolingians to the Renaissance. The practical skills of reading and dating scripts, the research tools for working with manuscripts, the means and the historical context of the production of manuscript books, with attention to the history of the transmission of Latin texts. Manuscripts held by Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library are fully integrated into class study.

Textual Criticism and Textual Transmission

LATN G6330x. Textual Criticism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. We reconstruct the ancient world in part from ancient literature; we reconstruct ancient literature largely from manuscripts written long after the works they contain. How do editors reconstruct texts, and how can we judge their reconstructions? This course will examine the history of classical texts from antiquity to the fifteenth century and the theory and history of editing texts from the Renaissance to the present. Emphasis will be on classical Latin literature, but some consideration of Greek texts may also be useful.

LATN G8010. Vergil. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A close reading of the Georgics with special attention to the political and literary milieu of Rome in the late Republic.

LATN G8120y. Manilius. 3 pts. This semiar provides an in-depth introduction to the Astronomica of M. Manilius, a didactic poem on astrology from the late Augustan peroid. Class discussion will focus on the work's astronomical and astrological subject matter; its historical and political background; Manilius' larger world-view and philosophical affiliation; and his poetics and place within literary history.

LATN G8130. Aspects of Augustanism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An intensive study of the explosion of literary production during the age of Augustus. Vergil's Aeneid; Horace's Odes; Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti; Livy's Ab Urbe Condita; Sulpicia's Consolatio ad Liviam; and selections from Propertius and Tibullus. The cultural context of Augustan literature emphasized by the juxtaposition of less familiar texts with the more familiar. Examination of what Augustan literature reveals about early imperial history and how history can be utilized to read literature.

LATN G8155. Scholarship and Learning In the Roman Republic. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Survey of Roman intellectual history from the earliest times to the end of the republic, with special attention to career patterns of intellectuals, teachers, and artists; Roman interaction with Greek culture and learning; patronage of intellectuals; and traditional branches of instruction (rhetoric, medicine, philosophy, law).

LATN G8160. Foodways In Ancient Rome: Literature and Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Examines Roman foodways as fundamental aspects of culture: as guidelines to social proximity and social distance; to ritual fraternity (and exclusivity); to political superiority (and subordination).

LATN G8212. Lucretius. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Close reading of Lucretius' de rerum natura books 1, 2, 4, and selections from the rest, with particular attention to language and mode of exposition.

LATN G8218. Herodotus. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Acquaints graduate students with a large part of the Greek text of Herodotus and introduces them to major interpretative issues and to proposed scholarly solutions.

LATN G8227. Cicero. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An intensive study of Cicero in 57-51 B.C., the years between his exile and his departure for the Governorship of Cilicia. The relationships between public and private attitudes and between philosophical beliefs and political life. Readings will include portions of De Oratore, De Republica; letters, poetry, and speeches, particularly Pro Sestio, Pro Caelio, De Provinciis Consularibus, In Pisonem, and Pro Milone.

LATN G8230. Claudian. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The political poems of Claudian, studied in the contexts of literary and contemporary politics.

LATN G8241. Sallust.. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. The extant works (Catiline, Jugurtha, major fragments of the Histories), with an exploration of the major scholarly approaches to, and questions about, Sallust.

LATN G8242. Tacitus. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Readings from the Agricola and the Annals. Concentration on the manifestations and implications of absolute rule, and on Tacitus' selection of material and his narrative technique.

LATN G8243. Livy: Beyond Early Rome. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Readings from Livy, with special attention to Scipio the Elder.

LATN G8260y (Section 001). Ennius. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. A close reading of the fragments of Quintus Ennius, including dramatic, epic and philosophical texts. Particular attention will be paid to Ennius' double role as Hellenistic poet and as the first self-conscious creator of and independent Roman literature.

LATN G8280x. Pagans and Christians In Late Antiquity. 3 pts. The conflict of religions in the late fourth and early fifth centuries in its political and social context. Artistic and literary manifestations and documentary evidence.

LATN G8320. Literature and the Second Triumvirate. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An examination of the surviving literary works of the period 43-31 B.C.E., including texts by Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Sallust, Livy, Varro, and Cornelius Nepos. Emphasis on historical and political themes, to problems of genre, and to interconnections among the various texts.

LATN G9246. The Germania of Tacitus and the Ethnographic Tradition. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisite: instructor's permission. A thorough examination of the Germania with an investigation of the Graeco-Roman ethnographic tradition on which it is based; emphasis will be on detailed research.