A survey of classical Greece, with emphasis on literature, thought, and influence on contemporary culture. Taught in English. CA 1.

A survey of classical Rome, with emphasis on literature, thought, and influence on contemporary culture. Taught in English. CA 1.

Origin, nature, and function of myth in the literature and art of Greece and Rome and the re-interpretation of classical myth in modern art forms. Taught in English. CA 1.

A study of the essentials of Latin grammar designed to prepare the student to read simple classical Latin prose.

Further study of the essentials of Latin grammar designed to prepare the student to read simple classical Latin prose.

Review of the essentials of grammar. Reading of classical Latin prose and poetry with emphasis on Cicero and Ovid or Vergil.

Introduction to the reading of classical Latin prose and poetry with emphasis on Cicero, Ovid or Virgil, with particular attention given to a review of the essentials of grammar.

Intensive introduction to ancient Greek. Basic morphology, syntax, and vocabulary through simple readings from the New Testament.

Transition to classical Greek through selections from Xenophon, reading of Plato's Apology complete.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program.

(Also offered as HIST 2020.) Political and intellectual history of the civilizations that emerged around the ancient Mediterranean, including the Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, with emphasis on their interactions and influences. CA 1. CA 4-INT.

Reading of Ancient Greek texts in the original. With a change in content, may be repeated for credit. Involves reading in Greek.

Reading of Latin texts in the original. With a change in content, may be repeated for credit. Involves reading in Latin.

Selections from Plato and Aristotle.

Selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Taught in English.

Selections from Herodotus and Thucydides.

Selections from Ovid, mainly from the Metamorphoses, and a study of the myths of Greece and Rome.

Reading of texts from a number of periods and in a variety of styles, with consideration of morphological, syntactical, and semantic developments. Taught in Latin.

A study of classical epic, with special emphasis on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid, but including also other examples of the genre. Oral and literary epic, their social and political contexts, and the influence of classical epic on later literature. Taught in English.

Selected plays from the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. The origin and development of Greek drama, its transformation in the Roman period, and the influence of classical drama on later literature. Taught in English.

Examines a range of novels and other fictions from the Greco-Roman world. Works read will include the Greek sentimental novels, the satirical Roman novels of Petronius and Apeleius, and a variety of other pagan, Jewish, and Christian fictions. Taught in English.

Representations of the ancient Mediterranean world in contemporary cinema.

(Also offered as ARTH 3140.) Greek art and architecture from the ninth century B.C. to the first-century A.D.

(Also offered as ARTH 3150.) History of Roman art and architecture.

(Also offered as PHIL 2221.) Greek philosophy from its origin in the Pre-Socratics through its influence on early Christianity. Readings from the works of Plato and Aristotle. May include related ancient philosophical traditions.

(Also offered as PHIL 2221W.) Greek philosophy from its origin in the Pre-Socratics through its influence on early Christianity. Readings from the works of Plato and Aristotle. May include related ancient philosophical traditions.

Special topics taken in a foreign study program. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor.

(Also offered as HIST 3301.) The history of Near Eastern civilization from the Neolithic period to the Persian Empire. The birth of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The political, economic, social and cultural achievements of ancient Near Eastern peoples. Taught in English.

(Also offered as HIST 3320.) The history of Greece from Minoan and Mycenaean times until the Hellenistic Period and Alexander the Great, with special emphasis on the Fifth Century and the "Golden Age" of Athens.

(Also offered as HIST 3321.) The Eastern Mediterranean (the Greek east) from Alexander to Cleopatra (336-30 BCE), including historical, cultural, social, and religious developments.

(Also offered as HIST 3325.) From the beginning of Rome to the growth of the Roman Republic and the onset of Empire. Roman civilization and its influence upon later history.

(Also offered as HIST 3326.) The Roman Empire, from its beginnings until its transformation (or "fall") under the "barbarian" invasions, and its influence on later history. CA 1.

(Also offered as HIST 3330.) The political, historical and religious currents in Greco-Roman Palestine. Includes the Jewish Revolts, sectarian developments, the rise of Christianity and the Talmudic academies. May not be used to meet the foreign language requirement. Taught in English. Formerly offered as HEJS 3218.

(Also offered as HIST 3335.) The evolution of Christian institutions, leadership and doctrines in the Roman Empire ca. 50-451 CE. Topics may include gnosticism, prophecy, martyrdom, asceticism, pilgrimage, heresy, orthodoxy. Taught in English.

(Also offered as HIST 3340.) The profound social and cultural changes that redefined the cities, frontiers, and economies of the classical Mediterranean world and led to the Middle Ages. Developments in the eastern and western Mediterranean between the second and seventh centuries.