CLASSICS 300 Level
CLASS 302 CLASSICAL MYTH & RELIGION *3 (3-0-0)
The background and origin of classical mythology and religion; Mycenean and Near Eastern sources; religious festivals and usages and modern scholarship. Prerequisite: CLASS 102 or consent of Department.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 64068 | LEC B1 | TR | 1100 - 1220 | T 2 99 | Michael Lynn-George |
CLASS 303 RELIG GRECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY *3 (3-0-0)
Examination of the nature of pre-Christian religious practices in antiquity.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 67290 | LEC B1 | TR | 1230 - 1350 | T 1 91 | Steven Hijmans |
CLASS 321 GREEK LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION *3 (3-0-0)
Representative works of Greek literature and their cultural context. All readings in English. Students may not take Classics 321 and Classics 221 concurrently. Formerly CLASS 349/359. Prerequisite: CLASS 102, 221 or consent of Department.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| F11 | 44126 | LEC A1 | MWF | 1400 - 1450 | T 2 99 | Katy Mackay |
CLASS 322 LATIN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION *3 (3-0-0)
A study of representative works of Latin literature. Formerly CLASS 351. Prerequisite: CLASS 102, 221 or consent of Department.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 64070 | LEC B1 | MWF | 1000 - 1050 | T 1 104 | Rebecca Nagel |
CLASS 354 TOPICS IN GREEK CIVILIZATION *3 (3-0-0)
Examination of one aspect of the Classical Greek World. (Emphasis in any one year may be archaeological, historical or literary). Prerequisites: CLASS 254 or 280 or consent of Department.
B1 Current Debates in the Archaeology of Greece: 1250-168 BCE
The course will start with a description of the geographical and climatological characteristics of the area that we call Greece today. We will also look into 18th, 19th and 20th century history, the era when the field of archaeology became a more important part of the field of Classics. We will therefore study the work of some of the early researchers of Greek Antiquity, like Johann J. Winckelmann, Ernst Curtius, Heinrich Schliemann and J.D. Beazley and the impact their scholarship had on the development of Classical Archaeology as a discipline. We will diachronically study and discuss the major developments in Greek Art and Archaeology in the period of 1200-168 BCE. Starting with the Early Iron Age we will work our way through the scant remains that are left and will be surprised how much we can say about society in this time period. The Orientalizing and Archaic periods will follow with a focus on the development of the Greek polis (city state) and we subsequently move to discussing a variety of material remains of Classical Greek Civilization. This course will end with discussing the gradual decline of the polis system during the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman periods.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 67291 | LEC B1 | MWF | 0900 - 0950 | T 1 91 | Margriet Haagsma |
CLASS 355 TOPICS IN ROMAN CIVILIZATION *3 (3-0-0)
Examination of one aspect of the Classical Roman World. (Emphasis in any one year may be archaeological, historical or literary). Prerequisites: CLASS 255, 281, 282, or 283 or consent of Department.
A1 History of the Late Roman Republic.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| F11 | 47480 | LEC A1 | MWF | 1100 - 1150 | T B 70 | Christopher Mackay |
B1 Blood and Sand: History and Archaeology of the Roman Games.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 67292 | LEC B1 | TR | 1100 - 1220 | T 1 125 | Jeremy Rossiter |
CLASS 356 TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART *3 (3-0-0)
Examination of one aspect of art in the Greco-Roman world. Prerequisites: CLASS 254 or 255 or consent of Department.
A1 The Emergence of ‘Roman’ Art Against the Backdrop of Etruscan and Hellenistic Art.
The emergence of ‘Roman’ art against the backdrop of Etruscan art on the one hand, and Hellenistic art on the other. After a very brief review of Archaic and Classical Greek art we will first explore the evolution of Etruscan art from the late Villanovan period (8th century BC) to the fourth century BC, taking note in particular of the increasing influence of Greek art. We will then explore the main characteristics of Hellenistic art (late 4th - 1st c. BC). Following this, the latter part of the course will focus on the two longstanding ‘problems’ in the art history of the Etruscans and Republican Rome: what do persistent non-Greek idiosyncrasies in Etruscan art indicate about their understandings of, and attitudes towards the Greek Art by which they were so influenced? And when (if ever) can we speak of the emergence of a distinctly Roman form of art and what are its defining characteristics? Both ‘problems’ will force us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about ‘art’.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| F11 | 44492 | LEC A1 | MWF | 1200 - 1250 | T B 95 | Steven Hijmans |
CLASS 360 ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY *3 (3-0-0)
Examination of the development of history writing in Classical Antiquity. Prerequisite: CLASS 280, 282 or 283.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| F11 | 47481 | LEC A1 | MWF | 1300 - 1350 | T 2 99 | Christopher Mackay |
CLASS 375 HISTORY OF ANCIENT WORLD MED *3 (3-0-0)
A survey of medical science from Prehistoric times through Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman times to the end of the Roman Empire.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | CANCELLED | LEC S1 | R | 1800 - 2100 |
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CLASS 380 HISTORY OF PALESTINE *3 (3-0-0)
From the Persian Conquest to the time of Jesus. Note: not open to students with credit in RELIG 308.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 67293 | LEC B1 | TR | 1100 - 1220 | T B 45 | Ehud Ben Zvi |
CLASS 399 TOPIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD *3 (3-0-0)
A1 Warfare in Greek and Roman Antiquity
This course will examine the historical development of warfare from the emergence of hoplite armies in archaic Greece to the Byzantine and Germanic successors of the Roman army in the fifth century AD. Topics will include: Tactics and Strategy; Political Uses and Dimensions of Warfare; War and Armies as Social and Cultural Institutions; the Cultural Experiences and Perceptions of Warfare. These will be addressed through both primary sources (in English translation) and secondary scholarship.
| Term | Class | Section | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
| W12 | 67309 | LEC B1 | TR | 1400 - 1520 | T 1 91 | Adam Kemezis |