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. Please contact the instructor if you are unsure whether you have the appropriate knowledge of the language. Topic for Fall 2018: Translation and interpretation of the love elegies of Propertius with a focus on genre, metapoetics, intertextuality, and social and historical context. Also offered as CAS CL 451 A1.
• CAS CL 520: Studies in Latin Literature
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CL 351.
  Topic for Spring 2017: Ovid's Metamorphoses: Text and Reception. Extensive readings in the original Latin from Ovid's Metamorphoses, supplemented by readings in modern scholarship and studies of post-classical receptions of the poem.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• GRS CL 699: Teaching College Classical Studies I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in classical studies. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS CL 717: Greek and Roman Religions
  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.
• GRS CL 720: Latin Seminar
  Extensive readings in Latin authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Spring 2019: Horace
• GRS CL 791: Greek Seminar
  Extensive readings in Greek authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Fall 2018: Hesiod and reception of Hesiod.
• 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.