Classical Studies

• CAS CL 502: Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
  Topics vary. Open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The literature studied is read in its original language, either ancient Greek or Latin, so advanced skill in the appropriate language is required. Topic for Fall 2021: Translation and interpretation of Lucretius with a focus on genre, philosophy, and intertextuality.
• CAS CL 520: Studies in Latin Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CL 351.
  Extensive readings in original Latin supplemented by readings in modern scholarship and studies of post-classical receptions.
• CAS CL 522: Survey of Latin Literature II
  Survey of Latin authors focusing on the period of the early Empire; introduction to classical scholarship. For advanced students wishing to increase their language skills through extensive reading.
• CAS CL 530: Latin Prose Composition
  Practice in set and free composition of Latin prose, aimed at developing advanced language proficiency.
• CAS CL 561: Survey of Greek Literature 1
  Reading course designed to study the history of Greek literature through a chronological survey of representative authors and genres: Homer through the archaic age.
• CAS CL 563: Greek Prose Composition
  Close study of exemplary Greek prose as the basis for original composition in Greek of sentences and short passages, then more extensive prose pieces.
• GRS CL 651: Grad Latin Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CL 212 or equivalent
  Intensive study of selected major authors. Topic for Fall 2021: Horace's Satires. Requires DGS approval.
• GRS CL 691: Grad Greek Literature
  Intensive study of selected major authors. Topic for Fall 2021: Thucydides. Requires DGS approval.
• GRS CL 717: Greek and Roman Religion
  This course explores the religions of ancient Greece and Rome from their earliest beginnings to the emergence of Christianity. Within a broadly chronological outline, individual meetings concentrate on specifics: society and religion, worship, death, magic, religious violence, and conversion. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
• GRS CL 720: Latin Seminar
  Extensive readings in Latin authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Fall 2021: Critical Approaches to Cicero.
• GRS CL 748: Gods, Graves, & Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Religion & Ritual
  The beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, from their origins in Predynastic times to the development of the great temple complexes in the New Kingdom and later are studied in a broad synthesis of the data: archaeological, architectural, and textual.
• GRS CL 791: Greek Seminar
  Extensive readings in Greek authors. Specific topics may change.
• GRS CL 947: Directed Study in Ancient Greek and Latin History
  Directed study in a topic in ancient Greek and/or Latin history.
• GRS CL 948: Directed Study in Ancient Greek and Latin History.
  Directed study in a topic in ancient Greek and/or Latin history.
• GRS CL 957: Directed Study in Latin
  Directed study in a topic in Latin.
• GRS CL 958: Directed Study in Latin
  Directed study in a topic in Latin.
• GRS CL 967: Directed Study in Ancient Greek.
  Directed study in a topic in ancient Greek.
• GRS CL 968: Directed Study in Ancient Greek
  Directed study in a topic in ancient Greek.
• GRS CL 991: Directed Study in Classical Studies
  Directed study in a topic in classical studies.
• GRS CL 992: Directed Study in Classical Studies
  Directed study in a topic in classical studies.