Courses

• CAS CL 209: Sports in the Classical World
  Sport as competition and entertainment in Greece and Rome. The principal games and sites. Roman bloodsport. The athlete in society. The classical ideal of a sound mind in a sound body. Ancient and modern attitudes about sports compared.
• CAS CL 211: Intermediate Latin 1: Prose
  Reading of selections from Latin prose. Authors read may include Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Petronius, and Pliny.
• CAS CL 212: Intermediate Latin 2: Poetry
  Reading of selections from Latin poetry. Authors read may include Catullus, Ovid, and Vergil.
• CAS CL 213: Greek and Roman Mythology
  A general introduction to the myths of the ancient classical world, with particular regard to the patterns of experience, both religious and psychological, from which they evolved. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 216: Greek and Roman Religion
  Survey of ancient Greek and Roman religions and their development from earliest beginnings to the eclipse of paganism. Theories and practices of these religions, comparisons with other religions, and relationships to Judaism and Christianity. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 317. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 221: Greek History
  Introduction to the political, social, and economic history of Greece from the earliest historical period through the death of Alexander the Great. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 321. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 222: Roman History
  Introduction to the political, social, and economic history of Rome from the foundation of the city through the fall of the western empire. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 322. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 224: Greek Drama in Translation
  The history and development of ancient Greek theater; study of important plays in the genres of tragedy, comedy, and satyr drama by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 324. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 226: Ancient Epic in Translation
  Studies, in translation, the tradition of Greek and Roman epic: heroic, cosmogonic, didactic. Possible authors include Hesiod, Homer, Apollonius, Aratus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius. Focus on the social context, values, structure and narrative of each poem. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 326.
• CAS CL 229: Roman Comedy
  Selected plays. Explores the Roman adaptation of Greek comic forms, the development of a Roman point of view, practical aspects of staging plays, and the influence of early Roman comedy on later literature. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 329.
• CAS CL 261: Intermediate Greek 1: Prose
  Reading of selections from Greek prose. Authors read may include Plato and Lysias, as well as selections from the New Testament.
• CAS CL 262: Intermediate Greek 2: Poetry
  Reading of selections from the Iliad or Odyssey.
• CAS CL 302: The Age of Augustus
  The culture of the age of Augustus; political institutions, literature, art, architecture, engineering works, coins, religion, social institutions and life, the role of women, and life in the Roman provinces. Some familiarity with the civilization of Ancient Rome recommended.
• CAS CL 303: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  The causes and consequences of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Topics include Romans and barbarians; the rise and spread of Christianity; Constantine the Great; the death of classic paganism; theories of decline; the grand strategy of the Roman Empire; monasticism; the emergence of Byzantium and Constantinople; the origins of Islam; and the transformation of classical art, literature, and thought and their influence on Christianity.
• CAS CL 305: Topics in Myth
  This course may be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2011: Gods, Plants, and Shamans. The role of sacrifice and sacramental foods as mediators with deity, from the First to Last Supper. The Eucharist in ancient and modern religions and the etiological myths that explain the rituals.
• CAS CL 309: The Classical Tradition in the Renaissance
  The rise of the Renaissance from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century in literature, art, philosophy, and political theory. Particular attention to the revival, transformation, and distortion of classical models by Renaissance vision; and the conflict between Christian and pagan views of the world.
• CAS CL 310: The Classical Tradition in Modern Literature
  Investigation into genres of classical provenance which were influential in English literature. Specific topics may vary. Topic for Fall 2009: The Odyssey and Ulysses. Also offered as CAS XL 310.
• CAS CL 314: Women in Ancient Rome
  An investigation into the lives of women in the Roman Republic and Empire, as preserved in a diverse group of primary texts and images; readings in modern historical studies.
• CAS CL 319: History of the Greek Language
  Presents a comprehensive historical approach to the Greek language, tracing and elucidating major changes with attention to structure, grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and elements of style. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 519.
• CAS CL 325: Greek Tragedy and Film
  Explores Greek tragic myth's afterlife, both directly and obliquely, in cinema and in the modern literature spawning cinema: how certain Greek tragic myths have come to life as film and how "non-mythic"? stories have acquired a mythic power in literary and cinematic form. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.

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