Graduate courses in Classics General

Supplements CLASSLAT/CLASSGRK 275. Introduction to the grammatical encoding of semantic and pragmatic meaning. 205A: morphology-semantics interface (gender, tense, aspect, case). 205B: syntax-pragmatics interface (Latin word order). Begins in Autumn Quarter and continues through 5th week of Winter Quarter.

2 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 205B. The Semantics of Grammar

2 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 207A. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Literature of the Roman Republic

First course in a required two-year sequence. Focus is on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years. Focus is on translation, textual criticism, genre, the role of Greece in shaping Roman literature, and oral versus written discourse.

3-5 units, Aut (Kaesser, C)

CLASSGEN 207B. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Augustan Age Latin

Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Texts of Augustan literature required by the graduate syllabus, emphasizing poetry and major authors.

3-5 units, Win (Barchiesi, A)

CLASSGEN 207C. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Imperial Latin

Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.

4-5 units, Spr (Parker, G)

CLASSGEN 208A. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Archaic Greek

Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.

4-5 units, alternate years, not given this year

CLASSGEN 208B. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Classical Greek

Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.

4-5 units, alternate years, not given this year

CLASSGEN 208C. Survey of Greek and Latin Literature: Hellenistic and Late Greek

Required two-year sequence focusing on the origins, development, and interaction of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy. Greek and Latin material taught in alternate years.

4-5 units, alternate years, not given this year

CLASSGEN 220. Family, Gender, and Production in Ancient Rome

(Same as HISTORY 311A.) Seminar. The household as the basic unit of production in Rome in the context of family relations and ideologies of gender. Methodological challenges of doing social and economic history from literary, epigraphic, and literary texts. Demography of family and kinship in ancient Rome. Ideologies of gender and family roles and their influence on economic production. Economic theories of the family and human capital.

4-5 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 223. Urban Sustainabilty: Long-Term Archaeological Perspectives

(Same as CLASSGEN 123, URBANST 115.) Comparative and archaeological view of urban design and sustainability. How fast changing cities challenge human relationships with nature. Innovation and change, growth, industrial development, the consumption of goods and materials. Five millennia of city life including Near Eastern city states, Graeco-Roman antiquity, the Indus Valley, and the Americas.

3-5 units, Spr (Shanks, M)

CLASSGEN 225. Metamorphoses of Dido

Focus is on Dido in Virgil; the complexities of her characterization and its bearing on an overall view of the poem, her scant previous appearances, and intertextual models. The continuing fascination with Dido by later authors from Ovid to the 2oth century. Possible topics include Latin and Christian authors, medieval rewritings, Chaucer, Marlowe, and Dido in music and painting.

3-5 units, Spr (Schiesaro, A), given once only

CLASSGEN 235. Petronius and Apuleius

Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses represent the surviving Latin novel. Differences between them. Readings include Petronius' dinner at Trimalchio's and Apuleius' love story of Cupid and Psyche. Philological analysis, history of the novel, and social history of the Roman empire. The afterlife of these texts. Recent scholarship.

4-5 units, offered occasionally

CLASSGEN 241. Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship

How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist scholarship gave way to professional archaeologists, historians, and philologists? Focus is on key works in the history of classics, such as Erasmus and Winckelmann, in their scholarly, cultural, and political contexts, and recent critical trends in intellectual history and the history of disciplines.

4-5 units, Spr (Ceserani, G)

CLASSGEN 245. Roman Receptions of Hellenistic Poetry

The beginnings of Latin literature in Greek literature, primarily in texts transmitted through imperial courts of the Greek east such as Alexandria and Pergamum. Aesthetic, formal, and theoretical aspects of transmission; cultural contexts of reception, including Ennius and Lucilius, Catullus and Cicero, Horace and Vergil, and Propertius and Ovid.

4-5 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 260. Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)

1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

CLASSGEN 283. Catullus: Textual Criticism and Related Points of Interest

Housman's definition of textual criticism as the science of discovering error in texts and the art of removing it. How scholars have attempted to emend problematic passages in Catullus.

4-5 units, Aut (Lain, N)

CLASSGEN 305. Pleasure in Greek Thought

The conceptualization of pleasure in Greek culture; the relationship between individual and public/political experiences and representations of pleasure; intersections among aesthetics, politics, and sexuality in Greek thought.

3-5 units, Win (Peponi, A)

CLASSGEN 310A. Inscribed Lives: Roman Epigraphy in Context

How to read Roman (mostly Latin) inscriptions. The use of inscriptions in studying Roman history. Sources include texts such as the Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Tabula Siarensis. Archaeological contexts; electronic and other resources. Research projects on a theme for which inscriptions provide main evidence. Guest speakers include John Bodel, Brown University.

3-5 units, Win (Parker, G; Scheidel, W)

CLASSGEN 310B. Inscribed Lives: Roman Epigraphy in Context

Continuation of 310A. Prerequisite: CLASSGEN 310A.

3-5 units, Spr (Scheidel, W; Parker, G)

CLASSGEN 314. Fragments

The reconstruction and interpretation of fragmentary texts; how to deal with Latin poetry in fragments, emphasizing the Republican and Augustan ages. Sources include anthologies by E. Courtney and Adrian Hollis. Techniques of analysis including philology, textual criticism, and questions about Greek models. The importance of fragments for literary and cultural history.

4-5 units, offered occasionally

CLASSGEN 324. Choral Poetry and Performance

Representative readings of choral lyric poetry. Interpretation of the most complex choral discourse developed in archaic and classical Greece. The cultural context in which choral performances took place in the Greek polis.

4-5 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 332. Pragmatogony: Archaeological Perspectives on the Origins of Things

Relationships with artifacts and the material world; design and making, innovation and cultural change. Design, manufacture, distribution, and consumption of goods. Sources include philosophy, design studies, sociology and history of technology, science studies, art history, and anthropological archaeology. Case studies from early agricultural societies and Graeco-Roman antiquity.

5 units, Spr (Shanks, M)

CLASSGEN 352. Ovid's Metamorphoses

Competing 20th-century approaches. Emphasis is on new research and how to compose research papers. Topics include: narratology, reception, gender, poetics, time and space, mythology, material culture, hellenization, romanization, orientalism, allusion and intertextuality, and emotions.

4-5 units, not given this year

CLASSGEN 354. Social Power: The Law and the State, a Comparative Study of Ancient Legal Systems

(Same as CLASSGEN 154.) For ancient history majors and those interested in the history of law. Ancient Mediterranean legal systems, from ancient Egypt and the Near East to Greece and Rome. Focus is on ancient documents including the Code of Hammurabi, Egyptian sale contracts, as well as analysis of ancient law such as Maine's Ancient Law, and Weber. The development of the law; solutions in ancient societies to the common problems of crime, contract, inheritance, marriage, and the family; and the enforcement of property rights.

3-5 units, offered occasionally

CLASSGEN 360. Dissertation Research in Classics

1-10 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

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