Courses
Courses Offered in Greek
Courses for which a knowledge of Greek is not required are listed under Classical Culture and Society.
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
For information about courses offered by other Bryn Mawr departments and programs or about courses offered by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, please consult the Tri-College Course Guide.
For information about the Academic Calendar, including the dates of first and second quarter courses, please visit the College's master calendar
.Spring 2012
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GREK B011-001 | Traditional and New Testament Greek | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM MWF | Carpenter Library 13 | Sigelman,A. |
| Lecture: 8:45 AM- 9:45 AM TTH | Carpenter Library 13 | ||||
| GREK B104-001 | Homer | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 13 | Sigelman,A. |
| GREK B399-001 | Senior Seminar | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | Dept. staff, TBA | |
| GREK B601-001 | Homer: Iliad | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM M | Thomas Hall 223 | Sigelman,A. |
| GREK B670-001 | Greek Scholia | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM TH | Thomas Hall 223 | Tortorelli,W. |
Fall 2012
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Spring 2013
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Courses Offered in Latin
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
For information about courses offered by other Bryn Mawr departments and programs or about courses offered by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, please consult the Tri-College Course Guide.
For information about the Academic Calendar, including the dates of first and second quarter courses, please visit the College's master calendar
.Spring 2012
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LATN B002-001 | Elementary Latin | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF | Carpenter Library 13 | Scott,R. |
| Lecture: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM TTH | Carpenter Library 13 | ||||
| LATN B112-001 | Latin Literature | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF | Thomas Hall 111 | Baertschi,A. |
| LATN B350-001 | Topics in Latin Literature: The Fall of Rome | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 223 | Conybeare,C. |
| LATN B399-001 | Senior Seminar | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | Dept. staff, TBA | |
| LATN B650-001 | Topics in Latin Literature: The Fall of Rome | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T | Thomas Hall 223 | Conybeare,C. |
Fall 2012
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Spring 2013
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Courses Offered in Classical Culture and Society
This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.
For information about courses offered by other Bryn Mawr departments and programs or about courses offered by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, please consult the Tri-College Course Guide.
For information about the Academic Calendar, including the dates of first and second quarter courses, please visit the College's master calendar
.Spring 2012
| COURSE | TITLE | SCHEDULE/ UNITS |
MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS | LOCATION | INSTRUCTOR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSTS B175-001 | Feminism in Classics | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW | Taylor Hall C | Conybeare,C. |
| CSTS B208-001 | The Roman Empire | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM MWF | Carpenter Library 25 | Scott,R. |
| CSTS B224-001 | High Middle Ages | Semester / 1 | Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH | Carpenter Library 17 | Truitt,E. |
| CSTS B368-001 | Topics in Medieval History: The Dark Arts: Medieval Magic | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM M | Carpenter Library 13 | Truitt,E. |
| CSTS B399-001 | Senior Seminar | Semester / 1 | Lecture: Date/Time TBA | Dept. staff, TBA | |
| CSTS B651-001 | Alexandrian Tradition | Semester / 1 | LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W | Thomas Hall 223 | Baertschi,A. |
| CSTS B701-001 | Supervised Work | Semester / 1 |
Fall 2012
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Spring 2013
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Courses Offered in Greek
GREK B010 Traditional and New Testament Greek Fall 2011 The first part of this year-long course will focus on introducing standard (Classical) Greek. Once the grammar has been fully introduced, early in the spring semester, the class will begin to develop facility by reading part of the New Testament, selections from Xenophon and, finally, a dialogue of Plato. (Sigelman,A. -- Language Level 1) GREK B011 Traditional and New Testament Greek Spring 2012 The first part of this year-long course will focus on introducing standard (Classical) Greek. Once the grammar has been fully introduced, early in the spring semester, the class will begin to develop facility by reading part of the New Testament, selections from Xenophon and, finally, a dialogue of Plato. (Sigelman,A. -- Language Level 1) GREK B101 Herodotus Not offered 2011-12 Selections from Herodotus' History. (Sigelman,A., Baertschi,A. -- Division III: Humanities) GREK B104 Homer Spring 2012 This course introduces the student to the Iliad and Odyssey -- two epic works which stand at the fountainhead of the Western literary tradition. We will read selections from both poems as we explore Homeric language, metrics, imagery, and themes. (Sigelman,A. -- Division III: Humanities) GREK B201 Plato and ThucydidesCourse URL Fall 2011 This course is designed to introduce the student to two of the greatest prose authors of ancient Greece, the philosopher, Plato, and the historian, Thucydides. These two writers set the terms in the disciplines of philosophy and history for millennia, and philosophers and historians today continue to grapple with their ideas and influence. The brilliant and controversial statesman Alcibiades provides a link between the two texts in this course, and we examine the ways in which both authors handle the figure of Alcibiades as a point of entry into the comparison of the varying styles and modes of thought of these two great writers. (Edmonds,R. -- Division III: Humanities) GREK B350 Topics in Greek Literature Not offered 2011-12 Open only to advanced undergraduates, this course includes a weekly seminar and a translation session. Three-quarters of the reading will be from primary sources. (Division III: Humanities) GREK B398 Senior Seminar (Baertschi,A.) Cross-listed as CSTS B398 Cross-listed as LATN B398 GREK B399 Senior Seminar Cross-listed as CSTS B399 GREK B403 Supervised Work GREK B601 Homer: Iliad Spring 2012 We will focus on a careful reading of significant portions of the Homeric epics and on the history of Homeric scholarship. Students will develop an appreciation both for the beauty of Homer's poetics and for the scholarly arguments surrounding interpretation of these texts. (Sigelman,A.) GREK B609 Pindar & Greek Lyric Not offered 2011-12 We will begin with a careful reading of Pindar's shorter odes, then proceed to his most famous long odes (Olympian 1, Pythian 3, Pythian 1) and then consider interpretative strategies (past, present, and future) as we survey the rest of the odes. One additional hour of reading TBA. (Sigelman,A.) GREK B610 Greek Comedy Not offered 2011-12 There was a time when scholars could point out, in their studies of Assemblywomen (c. 392 BC) and Wealth (388 BC), the only late plays of Aristophanes to have survived, that these comedies had undeservedly been neglected in the scholarship--a neglect due in part to the fact that many insisted in seeing in them a decline in the comic genre from the fifth to the fourth century BC. This is no longer the case: starting in the 1960s, when scholars began, slowly but surely, to take a more serious interest in the comedies, both plays have been well served with studies that not only have done much to help us understand their complexity but, more significantly, have brought out some of the most intractable problems in writing about Aristophanes. Indeed, it can be quite humorous to observe how scholars reach radically different conclusions based on the same material--a testimony of how difficult it is to come to terms with the political, social, and economic critiques of his comedies, but also of the fascination that this same difficulty holds for many. This contested aspect of Assemblywomen and Wealth raises interesting questions regarding not only the purpose of the genre but also its evolution; for this reason, they are worthy of being studied in detail. In this seminar, we will read the Greek text and the secondary literature associated with these two plays in order to consider the various political, economic, ritual, performance, and gender-related issues they raise, in addition to the interpretative problems mentioned above. In this respect, this course also serves as an introduction to some of the major areas of study in recent Aristophanic scholarship. (Barrenechea,F.) GREK B623 Sophocles Not offered 2011-12 (Mitchell-Boyask,R.) GREK B627 Fragmentary Greek Literature: Euripides Not offered 2011-12 This seminar provides an introduction to the study of fragmentary literature by focusing on the lost dramas of Euripides . Our goal is to acquire a critical awareness of the challenges and possibilities offered by the study of fragments (including non-dramatic fragments such as Sappho). We consider the criteria for editing and interpreting fragmentary texts as we survey the most important sources and highlighting the problems that pertain to each. After this evaluation of the evidence, we then test the extent to which we can securely reconstruct a particular play. To conclude, we explore how these fragments can shed new light on our understanding of Euripidean drama. (Barrenechea,F.) GREK B639 Greek Orators:Classical Athens Not offered 2011-12 The Attic orators provide a rich array of evidence for the social structures of men and women in ancient Athens, giving insights into aspects of personal life that literary texts rarely touch upon. In this seminar, we will explore the ideas of gender and citizenship as they are expressed in a number of the orations from 4th century Athens. We will examine the ways in which rhetoric is used in the speeches, with close attention to the kind of social and personal dynamics that were centralto the forensic arena of this time period. A close reading of the texts themselves in the original Greek will help provide insight into the language of the courts, while the readings from modern scholarship will allow us to probe more deeply into some the issues raised by the texts. (Edmonds,R.) GREK B643 Readings in Greek History
Course URL Fall 2011 We will consider the primary issues for the authors and also the issues that may rather be our own. These include the technical issues of historiography--what history is and how it achieves its goals; historical causation and relevance; exactness or reliability, bias and viewpoint. We will also attend to social justice, which for us means race, class and gender: what was it for the Greeks? (Edmonds,R.) GREK B644 Plato Not offered 2011-12 In this seminar, we will explore the central ideas of a Platonic dialogue as they are unfolded by the varying voices of the interlocutors. In addition to a close reading of the text itself, we will sample from the scholarly debates over the understanding and interpretation of the dialogue that have gone on over the past two and a half millennia of reading Plato's dialogues. (Edmonds,R.) GREK B670 Greek Scholia Spring 2012 (Tortorelli,W.)
At Haverford College:
GREK H001, H002 Elementary Greek
Introduction to ancient Greek, with selected readings in poetry and prose. Completion of the basics of ancient Greek, followed by readings in Lysias and Plato in GREK 002. (Germany)
GREK H101 Introduction to Greek Literature: Herodotus and Greek Lyric
Introduction to the study of Greek literature through readings in Herodotus’ Histories and selections from Greek lyric poetry. Emphasis will be on developing reading skills and on critical interpretation and discussion. Prerequisite: Greek 001-002 or the equivalent (Mulligan)
GREK H202 Advanced Greek: Tragedy
Sophocles, Euripides, and readings in Aristotle’s Poetics. (Roberts)
GREK H350 Seminar in Greek Literature: Translating the Classics: Theory, History, Practice
An advanced seminar in Greek language and literature, with special emphasis on the interpretation and discussion of texts in Greek and the reading of relevant scholarship. Topic to be determined by faculty. May be repeated for credit. GREK 201 or 202 or consent. (Roberts)
GREK H480 Independent Study
(staff)
Courses Offered in Latin
At Bryn Mawr:
Courses for which a knowledge of Latin is not required are listed under Classical Culture and Society.
LATN B001 Elementary Latin Fall 2011 Basic grammar, composition, and Latin readings, including classical prose and poetry. (Conybeare,C. -- Language Level 1) LATN B002 Elementary Latin Spring 2012 Basic grammar, composition, and Latin readings, including classical prose and poetry. (Scott,R., Barrenechea,F. -- Language Level 1) LATN B110 Intermediate Latin Fall 2011 Intensive review of grammar, reading in classical prose and poetry. For students who have had the equivalent of two years of high school Latin or are not adequately prepared to take LATN 101. This course meets three times a week with a required fourth hour to be arranged. (Scott,R. -- Language Level 2) LATN B112 Latin LiteratureSection 001 (Spring 2011): Livy and Horace Spring 2012 Livy and Horace. Prerequisite: LATN 101 or placement by the department. (Baertschi,A., Conybeare,C. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B202 Advanced Latin Literature
Section 001 (Spring 2011): Latin of the Empire: Petronius Not offered 2011-12 Readings from major authors of the first and second centuries C.E. (Barrenechea,F. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B203 Medieval Latin Literature Fall 2011 Selected works of Latin prose and poetry from the late Roman Empire through the 12th century. (Conybeare,C. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B205 Latin Style Not offered 2011-12 A study of Latin prose style based on readings and exercises in composition. Offered to students wishing to fulfill the requirements for teacher certification in Latin or to fulfill one of the requirements in the major. (Barrenechea,F. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B312 Roman Satire Not offered 2011-12 (Conybeare,C. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B350 Topics in Latin Literature
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Statius
Section 001 (Spring 2012): The Fall of Rome
Section 001 (Spring 2011): The Idea of the Dialogue Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Open only to advanced undergraduates, this course includes a weekly seminar and a translation session. Three-fourths of the reading will be from primary sources. One additional hour TBA Prerequisite: a 200-level Latin course.
Current topic description: Readings in the poetry of Statius.
Current topic description: When Rome was sacked in 410 CE, how did people respond? Was this the collapse of the Roman empire - or was the heart of empire already elsewhere? We shall address this question particularly through Christian eyes, reading Augustine's sermons and Jerome's letters from the period, and paying special attention to Augustine's magisterial elaboration, in the City of God, of the issues at stake. (Conybeare,C., Baertschi,A. -- Division III: Humanities) LATN B398 Senior Seminar (Baertschi,A.) Cross-listed as CSTS B398 Cross-listed as GREK B398 LATN B399 Senior Seminar Cross-listed as CSTS B399 LATN B403 Supervised Work LATN B612 Tacitus Fall 2011 Studies in the anals of Tacitus. (Scott,R.) LATN B619 Roman Satire Not offered 2011-12 This course will span four turbulent centuries of Roman imperilism in its reading or Roman satire. We will range from the sharp minutiae of social observation in Horace's Sermones to the calculated public abuse of a eunuch consul in Claudian's In Eutropium; from the swirling filthy riches of Persius and Juvenal to the nastily eloquent Christian condemnation of riches (and much else) in St Jerome. (Conybeare,C.) LATN B650 Topics in Latin Literature
Section 001 (Spring 2012): The Fall of Rome
Section 001 (Spring 2011): The Idea of the Dialogue Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: When Rome was sacked in 410 CE, how did people respond? Was this the collapse of the Roman empire - or was the heart of empire already elsewhere? We shall address this question particularly through Christian eyes, reading Augustine's sermons and Jerome's letters from the period, and paying special attention to Augustine's magisterial elaboration, in the City of God, of the issues at stake. (Conybeare,C., Baertschi,A.) LATN B658 Late Latin Poetry Not offered 2011-12 (Conybeare,C.) LATN B671 Fasti Not offered 2011-12 (Scott,R.) LATN B672 Ancient Drama and Performance Criticism Not offered 2011-12 Course description: This course is designed as a survey of current trends in performance analysis of ancient drama, offering a selection of material evidence, ancient testimonies, and contemporary studies that addresses diverse theatrical issues such as stage directions, spatial definition, and masks. We examine various methodological approaches to interpreting ancient performance, and test the usefulness of these approaches on a number of plays from the Greek and Roman theater. Works of the Greek playwrights will be read in translation; a play each by Plautus, Terence and Seneca will be read in Latin. (Barrenechea,F.)
At Haverford College:
LATN H001, H002 Elementary Latin
Introduction to the elements of Latin grammar, with readings in prose and poetry. This is the first semester of a year-long course. (Mulligan)
LATN H101 Introduction to Latin Literature: The Language of Love and Hate in the Roman Republic
Introduction to the study of Latin literature through readings from Catullus' poetry and Ciceros' Pro Caelio. Class will include some grammar review, but emphasis will be on developing reading skills and on critical interpretation and discussion. Prerequisite: Students should have had either a year of college Latin or very strong high school preparation. For a course with more extensive grammar review, see Bryn Mawr Latin 003. (Roberts)
LATN H102 Introduction to Latin Literature: Comedy
LATN H170 Stilus: Latin Reading and Stylistics
This course is designed to be an ongoing practicum in Latin stylistics. Students will meet once a week in an informal setting where they will learn to use Latin actively, as a supple, living instrument of written expression. Open to all students who have completed Latin 002, regardless of whether they are currently enrolled in any other Latin course; may be repeated indefinitely. (Germany)
LATN H202 Advanced Latin Literature: Ovid
This course we will focus on the culminating and most influential works of this tradition—Ovid’s Amores and Ars Amatoria. The Amores presents all the features of the Elegiac genre: the pathetic lover, the (un)helpful servant, erotic rivals, sexual success, and betrayal. The Ars Amatoria is styled as a verse handbook to the elegiac lover, teaching first men, and then women, how to catch and keep the perfect (and in some cases the adequate) lover. (Mulligan)
LATN H350 Seminar in Latin Literature: Translating the Classics: Theory, History, Practice
LATN H399 Senior Seminar
The first term of this course is a bi-college team-taught seminar devoted to readings in and discussion of selected topics in the various sub-fields of Classical Studies (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy. law, social History); the second term involves the writing and oral presentation of the senior thesis. (Mulligan)
LATN H480 Independent Study
An advanced seminar in Latin language and literature, with special emphasis on the interpretation and discussion of texts in Latin and the reading of relevant scholarship. Topic to be determined by faculty. May be repeated for credit. At least one 200-level Latn course or consent. (Roberts)
Courses Offered in Classical Culture and Society
(excluding language courses)
At Bryn Mawr College:
CSTS B110 The World Through Classical Eyes Not offered 2011-12 A survey of the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans perceived and constructed their physical and social world. The evidence of ancient texts and monuments will form the basis for exploring such subjects as cosmology, geography, travel and commerce, ancient ethnography and anthropology, the idea of natural and artificial wonders, and the self-definition of the classical cultures in the context of the oikoumene, the "inhabited world." (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B110 Cross-listed as CITY B110 CSTS B115 Classical Art Not offered 2011-12 An introduction to the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are examined in historical and social context, including interactions with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are highlighted. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B115 Cross-listed as CITY B115 Cross-listed as HART B115 CSTS B125 Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky Not offered 2011-12 This course explores Greek and Roman mythology using an archaeological and art historical approach, focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment. (Lindenlauf,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B125 Cross-listed as HART B125 CSTS B156 Roman Law in Action Fall 2011 An introduction to Roman public and private law from the early republic to the high empire. The development of legal institutions, including the public courts, the role of the jurists and the importance of case law, is stressed. (Scott,R. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B160 Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Rome Not offered 2011-12 The often-praised achievements of the classical cultures arose from the realities of day-to-day life. This course surveys the rich body of archaeological and literary evidence pertaining to how ancient Greeks and Romans--famous and obscure alike--lived and died. Topics include housing, food, clothing, work, leisure and family and social life. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B160 Cross-listed as CITY B160 CSTS B175 Feminism in Classics Spring 2012 This course will illustrate the ways in which feminism has had an impact on classics, as well as the ways in which feminists think with classical texts. It will have four thematic divisions: feminism and the classical canon; feminism, women, and rethinking classical history; feminist readings of classical texts; and feminists and the classics - e.g. Cixous' Medusa and Butler's Antigone. (Conybeare,C. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B191 The Worlds of the Greek Heroes Not offered 2011-12 An introduction to Greek mythology comparing the literary and visual representations of the major gods and heroes in terms of content, context, function, and syntax. (Hamilton,R. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B193 The Routes of Comedy Not offered 2011-12 A broad survey, ranging from the pre-history of comedy in such phenomena as monkey laughs and ritual abuse to the ancient comedies of Greece and Rome and their modern descendants, from the Marx Brothers and Monty Python to Seinfeld and South Park. (Barrenechea,F. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B205 Greek History Not offered 2011-12 A study of Greece down to the end of the Peloponnesian War (404 B.C.E.), with a focus on constitutional changes from monarchy through aristocracy and tyranny to democracy in various parts of the Greek world. Emphasis on learning to interpret ancient sources, including historians (especially Herodotus and Thucydides),inscriptions, and archaeological and numismatic materials. Particular attention is paid to Greek contacts with the Near East; constitutional developments in various Greek-speaking states; Athenian and Spartan foreign policies; and the "unwritten history" of non-elites. (Edmonds,R. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as HIST B205 CSTS B207 Early Rome and the Roman Republic Not offered 2011-12 The history of Rome from its origins to the end of the Republic with special emphasis on the rise of Rome in Italy, the Hellenistic world, and the evolution of the Roman state. Ancient sources, literary and archaeological, are emphasized. (Scott,R. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as HIST B207 CSTS B208 The Roman Empire Spring 2012 Imperial history from the principate of Augustus to the House of Constantine with focus on the evolution of Roman culture and society as presented in the surviving ancient evidence, both literary and archaeological. (Scott,R. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as HIST B208 CSTS B209 Eros in Ancient Greek Culture Not offered 2011-12 This course explores the ancient Greek's ideas of love, from the interpersonal loves between people of the same or different genders to the cosmogonic Eros that creates and holds together the entire world. The course examines how the idea of eros is expressed in poetry, philosophy, history, and the romances. (Edmonds,R. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B212 Magic in the Greco-Roman World Not offered 2011-12 Bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, amulets and talismans--from the simple spells designed to meet the needs of the poor and desperate to the complex theurgies of the philosophers--the people of the Greco-Roman world made use of magic to try to influence the world around them. This course will examine the magicians of the ancient world and the techniques and devices they used. We shall consider ancient tablets and spell books as well as literary descriptions of magic in the light of theories relating to the religious, political, and social contexts in which magic was used. (Edmonds,R. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B220 Writing the Self Not offered 2011-12 What leads people to write about their lives? Do women and men present themselves differently? Do they think different issues are important? How do they claim authority for their thoughts and experiences? Readings will include Abelard and Heloise's Letters, Augustine's Confessions, Guibert de Nogent's A Monk's Confession, Patrick's Confession, Perpetua's Passion, Radegund's Fall of Thuringia, and a collection, Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality. (Conybeare,C. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B220 CSTS B223 The Early Medieval World Fall 2011 The first of a two-course sequence introducing medieval European history. The chronological span of this course is from the early 4th century and the Christianization of the Roman Empire to the early 10th century and the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire. (Truitt,E. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as HIST B233 CSTS B224 High Middle Ages Spring 2012 This course will cover the second half of the European Middle Ages, often called the High and Late Middle Ages, from roughly 1000-1400. The course has a general chronological framework, and is based on important themes of medieval history. These include feudalism and the feudal economy; the social transformation of the millennium; monastic reform; the rise of the papacy; trade, exchange, and exploration; urbanism and the growth of towns. (Truitt,E. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as HIST B224 CSTS B227 Utopia: Good Place or No Place? Fall 2011 What is the ideal human society? What is the role and status of man and woman therein? Is such a society purely hypothetical or should we strive to make it viable in our modern world? This course will address these questions by exploring the historic development of the concept of utopia. (Sigelman,A. -- Division III: Humanities) CSTS B231 Medicine, Magic and Miracles in the Middle Ages Not offered 2011-12 An exploration of the history of health and disease, healing and medical practice in the medieval period, emphasizing Dar as-Islam and the Latin Christian West. Using methods from intellectual cultural and social history, themes include: theories of health and disease; varieties of medical practice; rationalities of various practices; views of the body and disease; medical practitioners. No previous course work in medieval history is required. (Truitt,E. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as HIST B231 Cross-listed as ARCH B231 CSTS B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Not offered 2011-12 We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations. (Lindenlauf,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B234 Cross-listed as HART B234 CSTS B248 Reception of Classical Literature in the Hispanic World Not offered 2011-12 A survey of the reception of Classical literature in the Spanish-speaking world. We read select literary works in translation, ranging from Renaissance Spain to contemporary Latin America, side-by-side with their classical models, to examine what is culturally unique about their choice of authors, themes, and adaptation of the material. (Barrenechea,F. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B248 Cross-listed as SPAN B248 CSTS B255 Show and Spectacle in Ancient Greece and Rome Not offered 2011-12 A survey of public entertainment in the ancient world, including theater and dramatic festivals, athletic competitions, games and gladiatorial combats, and processions and sacrifices. Drawing on literary sources, with attention to art and the archaeology and topography, we will explore the social, political and religious contexts of ancient spectacle. Special consideration will be given to modern equivalents of staged entertainment and representation of ancient spectacle in contemporary film and interpretive approaches such as gaze studies and carnivalesque. (Baertschi,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B255 Cross-listed as CITY B260 Cross-listed as HIST B285 CSTS B274 From Myth to Modern Cinema Not offered 2011-12 This is a topics course. Topics vary. (Baertschi,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B274 CSTS B359 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology Not offered 2011-12 (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B359 Cross-listed as HART B358 CSTS B364 Magical Mechanisms Not offered 2011-12 (Truitt,E. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as HIST B364 CSTS B368 Topics in Medieval HistorySection 001 (Spring 2011): Byzantine Saints and Sinners
Section 001 (Spring 2012): The Dark Arts: Medieval Magic Spring 2012 (Truitt,E., Radhakrishnan,M. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as HIST B368 CSTS B369 Topics in Medieval History Not offered 2011-12 Enrollment limited to 15 students. (Truitt,E. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as HIST B369 Cross-listed as ARCH B369 CSTS B375 Interpreting Mythology Fall 2011 The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see how some of these stories have been read and understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We will also explore some of the interpretive theories by which these tales have been understood, from ancient allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. Preference to upperclassmen, previous coursework in myth required. (Edmonds,R. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B375 CSTS B398 Senior Seminar The first term of this course is a bi-college team-taught seminar devoted to readings in and discussion of selected topics in the various sub-fields of Classical Studies (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy. law, social History); the second term involves the writing and oral presentation of the senior thesis. Cross-listed with GREK398 and LATN398. (Baertschi,A.) Cross-listed as GREK B398 Cross-listed as LATN B398 CSTS B399 Senior Seminar (Mulligan,B.) Cross-listed as GREK B399 Cross-listed as LATN B399 CSTS B403 Supervised Work CSTS B626 Ancient Pastoral Not offered 2011-12 (Baertschi,A.) CSTS B628 The Greek Comic Tradition Not offered 2011-12 This seminar will focus on Aristophanes, two of whose plays we will read in Greek (Clouds, Thesmophoriazusae), with the others read in English. We will begin by exploring two earlier comic trends (broadly defined): satire (Hesiod, Semonides, Hipponax) and ritual performance (komasts, padded dancers). We will end by reading Menander's Samia in Greek and his other major fragments (Epitrepontes, Aspis) in English. (Hamilton,R.) CSTS B651 Alexandrian Tradition Spring 2012 (Baertschi,A.) CSTS B663 Epistolography Not offered 2011-12 Ancient letter-writing is suddenly garnering scholarly attention. Letters are being read by those with literary and philosophical interests, not simply mined for historical detail. While this course will attend to various categories of letters - embedded letters, inscribed letters, letters primarily for literary display - our principal focus will be letters which were actually sent, and particularly correspondence of which both sides survives to us. We shall cover a wide chronological range, from the first century BC to the fifth century AD; our most sustained investigation will be of the letters of Cicero, Pliny, and Augustine, though we shall encompass many others along the way. In addition to the specific circumstances in which the letters were sent, we shall also address wider questions: how do letters negotiate the absence of their addressee? what ideas of friendship, or other affective connection, do they perform? what ideas of the self are entailed? how are ancient ideas of public and private letters played out? Finally, does it even make sense to speak of a separate genre of epistolography? The wide range of the course should make for some exciting answers. (Conybeare,C.) Cross-listed as LATN B663 CSTS B672 Roman Civil War Not offered 2011-12 Civil war was sufficiently familiar to Romans of the late republic and early empire that they had difficulty keeping track of them all. This course will assess its significance in the writings of Cicero, Julius Caesar, Vergil, Velleius Paterculus, Lucan and Tacitus. (Scott,R.) CSTS B673 Translation In Classics Not offered 2011-12 This seminar will be concerned with theories of translation, with the history of translations of Greek and Latin literature, and with the practice of translation. We will read widely in translation theory from antiquity to the present; we will also look at comparative translations of a variety of authors and genres in both Greek and Latin (accompanied by close reading of the originals) and at the translation history of selected texts. Topics of discussion will include: the definitions, varieties, and limits of translation; the aims and uses of translation; translation and the reader or audience; the politics of translation; sites of controversy; rhetoric, diction and linguistic register in original and translation; the untranslatable. We will be attentive to special issues raised by the translation of classical texts and with the historical evolution of such translation. CSTS B675 Interpreting Mythology Fall 2011 The myths of the Greeks have provoked outrage and fascination, interpretation and retelling, censorship and elaboration, beginning with the Greeks themselves. We will see how some of these stories have been read and understood, recounted and revised, in various cultures and eras, from ancient tellings to modern movies. We will also explore some of the interpretive theories by which these tales have been understood, from ancient allegory to modern structural and semiotic theories. In addition, we will examine the ways in which myth may be taught in the college classroom. The student should gain a more profound understanding of the meaning of these myths to the Greeks themselves, of the cultural context in which they were formulated. At the same time, this course should provide the student with some familiarity with the range of interpretations and strategies of understanding that people of various cultures and times have applied to the Greek myths during the more than two millennia in which they have been preserved. (Edmonds,R.) CSTS B701 Supervised Work Fall 2011, Spring 2012 (Department staff,T., Conybeare,C., Baertschi,A., Barrenechea,F., Scott,R., Edmonds,R.)
At Haverford College:
CSTS H119 Culture and Crisis in the Golden Age of Athens
Team-taught study of the Athenian achievement in literature, politics and philosophy from the Persian wars to the trial and death of Socrates,largely through primary sources. The last third of the semester will feature an open-ended, student-led simulation of the aftermath of the Peloponnesian Wars, in which students will debate social reconciliation after the expulsion of the tyrants, the organization of Athenian government, the expansion of citizenship, the future of the Athenian empire, and the fate of Socrates. (Germany, Mulligan)
CSTS H219 Rites of Laughter: Ancient Comedy and its Legacy
A survey of Greek and Roman comic theater, from its ritual origins to its classical role in civic cultural life. Special emphasis will be given to related modern forms of entertainment and to ancient and modern theories of the comic. Cross-listed in Comparative Literature. Lottery preference to CSTS, LATN, GREK, & COML Majors. (Germany)
CSTS H293 Translation and other Transformations: Theory and Practice
An exploration of the theory and practice of translation (both historical and current) and of other forms of rewriting. Theoretical readings include works by Dryden, Schleiermacher, Arnold, Benjamin, Venuti, and others; examples of translation will be drawn from a variety of texts in different languages. Students will have the opportunity to work on translation projects of their own. (Roberts)
CSTS H399 Senior Seminar
The first term of this course is a bi-college team-taught seminar devoted to readings in and discussion of selected topics in the various sub-fields of Classical Studies (e.g. literature, religion, philosophy. law, social History); the second term involves the writing and oral presentation of the senior thesis. (Roberts)
CSTS H480 Independent Study
(Staff)