SPRING 2010 COURSE SCHEDULE
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CLAS 71300 Topics in Greek literature: Iliad
Professor Jinyo Kim
Wed, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
NYU Washington Square East , Silver Center, Room 503A
CLAS 71400 Topics in Greek literature: Athenian Law Courts
Professor Sarah Peirce
Thurs, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein, Room 404
CLAS 72300 Topics in Latin literature: Lucretius
Professor Matthew McGowan
Thurs, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein, Room 404
CLAS 72600 Latin Paleography & Textual Criticism: Latin Paleography
Professor John Clark
Friday, 2:00-4:00 pm, 3 credits.
Fordham Rose Hill, Room TBA
CLAS 74100 Topics in Greek archaeology: The Archaeology of Cult
Professor Joan Connelly
Wed, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
NYU Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 503A
CLAS 75200 Special Topics in Classics: Latin sight translation
Professor Dee Clayman
Mon, 2:00-4:00 pm, pass/fail, 1 credit.
No auditors. Any level graduate students only.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBA
CLAS 80100 Proseminar in Classical Studies
Professor Jennifer Roberts
Mon, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBA
CLAS 81400 Topics in Greek literature: Sappho and Alcaeus
Professor Lawrence Kowerski
Mon, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBA
CLAS 81800 Topics in Greek history: Thucydides
Professor David Levene
Tues, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
NYU Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 503A
CLAS 82200 Topics in Latin literature: Valerius Maximus and Exemplarity
Professor Michael Peachin
Tues, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
NYU Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 503A
SPRING 2010 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CLAS 71300, Topics in Greek literature: Iliad
NYU, Wed, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Jinyo Kim
Description not yet available.
CLAS 71400, Topics in Greek literature: Athenian Law Courts
Fordham, Thurs, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Sarah Peirce
Description not yet available.
CLAS 72300, Topics in Latin literature: Lucretius
Fordham, Thurs, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Matthew McGowan
Description not yet available.
CLAS 72600, Latin Paleography & Textual Criticism: Latin Paleography
Fordham Rose Hill, Friday, 2:00-4:00 pm, 3 credits.
Professor John Clark
Description not yet available.
CLAS 74100, Topics in Greek archaeology: The Archaeology of Cult
NYU, Wed, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Joan Connelly
Description not yet available.
CLAS 75200, Special Topics in Classics: Latin sight translation
CUNY, Mon, 2:00-4:00 pm, pass/fail.
Professor Dee Clayman
Description not yet available.
CLAS 80100, Proseminar in Classical Studies
CUNY, Mon, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Jennifer Roberts
Description not yet available.
CLAS 81400, Topics in Greek literature: Sappho and Alcaeus
CUNY, Mon, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Lawrence Kowerski
Description not yet available.
CLAS 81800, Topics in Greek history: Thucydides
NYU, Tues, 6:30-8:30 pm, 3 credits.
Professor David Levene
Description not yet available.
CLAS 82200, Topics in Latin literature: Valerius Maximus and Exemplarity
NYU, Tues, 4:15-6:15 pm, 3 credits.
Professor Michael Peachin
Description not yet available.
FALL 2009 COURSE SCHEDULE
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CLAS 70100 Greek Rhetoric and Stylistics [96511]
Professor Asper
Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
Permission of Executive Officer required.
NYU Washington Square East , Silver Center, Room 503A
CLAS 71100 Readings in Plato [96512]
Professor Simpson
Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3309
CLAS 71400 Rhetoric and Philosophy in Lucian [96516]
Professor Penella
Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein, Room 404
CLAS 71900 Topics in Greek History: Athens and Sparta [TBA]
Professor Roberts
Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 8203
[Cross-listed with History 70300]
CLAS 72100 Pagans and Christians in Latin Imperial Texts [96520]
Professor Sogno
Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein, Room 404
CLAS 81100 Literary Papyrology [96526]
Professor Cribrori
Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
NYU Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 503A
CLAS 81400 Theocritus [96527]
Professor Stern
Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3305
CLAS 82100 Virgil's Georgics [96531]
Professor Thibodeau
Monday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 8203
CLAS 85300 Latin Seminar [96532]
Professor Ancona
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3307
Course Open to CUNY Classics students only. Permission of EO required.
First Day of Classes:
Graduate Center: Friday, 28 August
NYU: Tuesday, 8 September
Fordham: Wednesday, 2 September
CLAS 70100, Greek Rhetoric and Stylistics
NYU, Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 P.M., 3 credits.
Professor Markus Asper
Description not yet available.
CLAS 71100, Readings in Plato
NYU, Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.., 3 credits.
Professor Peter Simpson
The course will follow a representative sample of readings from Plato, beginning with the Apology and the first book of the Republic. Selections from the Gorgias and the Symposium will come next, and any other selections for which there is sufficient demand from those attending the class. The emphasis will be on comprehension of the Greek but also and necessarily on the style and philosophical content as well.
Course schedule
CLAS 71400, Rhetoric and Philosophy in Lucian
Fordham, Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
Professor Robert Penella
Against the background of the standard literary-rhetorical educational system and, in philosophy, the prominence of Plato combined with the competition of a range of philosophical sects, this course will examine Lucian as a satirist of the rhetorical and philosophical culture of his day. The course will begin, as it lays the rhetorical groundwork, with some examples of straightforward rhetorical exercises that survivie in Lucian's corpus. It will then move on to works that satirize rhetoric and philosophy. A few biographical and programmatic pieces will also be included. Many examples of Lucian's "comic dialogue" will be sampled. Weekly Greek assignments, supplemented by additional readings in Lucian in English, secondary readings, a short class presentation, a course paper, two in-class translations exams, and a take-home final exam.
Course schedule
CLAS 71900, Topics in Greek History: Athens and Sparta [cross-listed w/HIST 70300]
CUNY, Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
Professor Jennifer Roberts
This course will study Athens and Sparta both separately and in their interactions with one another. All assigned readings will be in English. Although we will formally be covering the period from ca.750 to ca.400 BCE, students are free to pursue the study of Athens and/or Sparta in later eras in their own research. Topics covered will range broadly over society, culture, religion, politics, and issues of war and peace, beginning with the origins of each state and concluding with the defeat of Athens by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War and the explusion of the obligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants. In examining the two states, emphasis will be placed on both differences and similarities.
Each week there will be common readings for all students but also recommended readings for students interested in particular topics. Common readings will include both primary and secondary sources, and both books and articles. Students who wish to read some texts in Greek can arrange to do so in place of other assignments.
Course schedule
CLAS 72100, Pagans and Christians in Latin Imperial Texts
Fordham, Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits.
Professor Christiana Sogno
This course offers an overview of Imperial Latin prose texts from the third to the fifth century and aims at exploring two main related questions, namely how the texts of this period depict the complex relationship between Christians and the so-called "pagans," and what the relationship of Christian literature is to traditional Roman literature. The material will be organized chronologically and thematically. Among the texts and genres that we will examine are martyr literature (the Passio Perpetuae), Christian apology (Tertullian), classical and Christian historiography (Ammianus, Lactantius, Jerome), biography (the Historia Augusta, the Life of Antony), autobiography (Augustine's Confessions), and the erudite dialogue (Macrobius). All primary sources will be read in Latin; any other arrangements must be discussed with the instructor.
CLAS 81100, Literary Papyrology
NYU, Tuesday, 6:30 –8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
Professor Raffaella Cribrori
Description not yet available.
Course schedule
CLAS 81400, Theocritus
CUNY, Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits.
Professor Jacob Stern
In this course we will read most of the Idylls of Theocritus and in addition various related works by other authors, such as Moschus, Bion and Herodas. With the exception of the last-mentioned author these texts will be found in the OCT Bucolici Graeci, edited by A.S.F. Gow, which is the text we will use for this course.
In class we will concern ourselves with a close reading and interpretation of the poems, considering their individual meanings and their historical and intellectual context. The range of genres represented in the corpus along with the attributes of each will be an on-going topic.
Secondary readings will be assigned as appropriate.
A course paper on a topic approved by the instructor will be required. There will also be a final examination which will concentrate on translation of the texts.
CUNY, Monday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits
Professor Philip Thibodeau
We will read most of the Georgics' four books using Richard Thomas' text (Cambridge 1988) in conjunction with other important works of modern scholarship.
In addition to translation, emphasis will be placed on analyzing poetic style (e.g. rhetoric, imagery, meter), social and historical context (the growth of villa culture in late Republican Rome, the civil wars, Vergil and Octavian), and the ways in which the poem asserts its originality within the genres of epic and didactic poetry (particularly with respect to Homer, Hesiod, Aratus, and Lucretius).
Each student will give a presentation and complete a course paper on topics developed in consultation with the instructor.
Course schedule
CUNY, Wednesday, 4:25-6:15 p.m., 3 credits
Professor Ronnie Ancona
In the Latin Poetry Research Seminar students will be guided through the process of choosing and researching a particular topic and developing it into a scholarly article and an oral presentation. Tasks will be picking a topic, researching it, writing an abstract for an oral paper, writing a paper for oral delivery and presenting it, and writing a paper that is suitable for publication.