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 2023, Section B1: Plato's Republic.
• 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 521: Survey of Latin Literature I
  Historical survey from archaic Latin through Republican literature; introduction to classical scholarship. For advanced students wishing to increase their language skills through extensive reading.
• 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: Lat Prose Comp
  This course description is currently under construction.
• 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 562: Survey of Greek Literature 2
  Reading course designed to study the history of Greek literature through a chronological survey of representative authors and genres: Classical through Hellenistic period.
• 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. Also, a study of prose style in an array of Greek authors.
• GRS CL 651: Grad Latin Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CL 212 or equivalent
  Intensive study of selected major authors. Topic for Fall 2023: Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Requires DGS approval. Topic for Spring 2024: Ovid's Metamorphoses.
• GRS CL 691: Grad Greek Literature
  Intensive study of selected major authors. Topic for Fall 2023: Goddesses in the Homeric Hymns. Requires DGS approval. Topic for Spring 2024: Thucydides.
• GRS CL 710: The Classical Tradition in Modern Literature
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  This course explores the ways in which the theatre, myth, and literature of Ancient Greece and Rome have sparked ideas, debates, and conversations among contemporary authors and artists. Students analyze modern works of literature in different genres together with the classical works that inspired them. All Greek and Latin literature is read in translation.
• 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 Roman authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Spring 2024: Pastoral Poetry.
• GRS CL 724: Greek Drama
  Intensive study of selected Greek tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays.
• GRS CL 791: Greek Seminar
  Extensive readings in Greek authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Fall 2023: Homer's Iliad.
• 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.