Classical Studies 97b (formerly *Classics 97b). Roman Culture and Civilization
Catalog Number: 4090
Kathleen M. Coleman
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
This course has three components: a chronological survey of Roman history from the beginnings to Constantine; exploration of key features of Roman culture (e.g., economy, education, housing, slavery); and an introduction to the tools and methods available for research on ancient Rome. Students are taught how to work with the Roman collections at Harvard (brick-stamps, coins, manuscripts, maps, papyri, pottery, sculpture, etc.). Each student receives guidance in the planning and execution of a research paper.
Note: Concentrators are required to take either one or two semesters of Classical Studies 97, depending on their concentration track.
Classical Studies 121. Writing Religion in the Fourth Century CE: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Hellenic Tradition - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 38006
Sarah Elizabeth Insley
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
A study of the reception and adaptation of Classical culture in the Eastern Empire, specifically through the writings of the three Cappadocian Fathers (Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, and Gregory of Nyssa) and contemporaries. Emphasis will be placed on a close reading of primary source texts in translation; exploration of various literary genres in their late–antique adaptations; and the study of the role of literature in the emergence of the young Christian Empire.
Classical Studies 156. Flavian Dynasty - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 99811
Kathleen M. Coleman
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
The Flavian era (694–96 CE) is one of the best documented and most significant periods of Roman history: Jerusalem was destroyed, Vesuvius erupted, the Colosseum was built, Britain became Romanized, the first Christian communities spread across the Mediterranean, and simultaneously the emperor increasingly claimed the status of a divinely ordained ruler. By careful study of inscriptions, monuments, literature, and works of art, this course seeks to define what was distinctive about the Flavian dynasty.
Classical Studies 157. Animal and Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 48289
Albert Henrichs
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The practice and theory of ritual killings and blood offerings in Greek culture from the archaic to the imperial period in the light of literary texts, cult inscriptions, visual representations, and the scholarship of the last 100 years.
Classical Studies 165. Ancient Medicine
Catalog Number: 2851
Mark Schiefsky
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Theories and practices of health and healing in the ancient Greco-Roman world, with special emphasis on the relationship of learned medicine to philosophy and other healing traditions.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Culture and Belief or the Core area requirement for Historical Study B.
This course fulfills the requirement that one of the eight General Education courses also engages substantially with Study of the Past.
Classics 98. Tutorial - Junior Year
Catalog Number: 31083
Kathleen M. Coleman and assistants
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: Tu., 2–4; Spring: Section I, M., 2–4; Section II, Tu., 3–5.
Close study of a topic in Greco-Roman civilization and/or literature, culminating in the preparation of a substantial research paper (ca. 20 pages).
Note: Required of all concentrators in the junior year.
*Classics 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 2350
Kathleen M. Coleman and assistants
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Tutorial instruction for course credit (in addition to ordinary tutorial instruction) is open only to candidates for honors writing a thesis in their senior year whose applications for such instruction have been approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Note: May be counted for concentration. Divisible only with permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
*Classics 301. Reading or Topics Course
Catalog Number: 3457
Kathleen M. Coleman 2289, Emma Dench 5243 (on leave 2011-12), John Duffy 1352 (on leave 2011-12), David F. Elmer 5574, Albert Henrichs 4085, Christopher P. Jones 3204, Paul Joseph Kosmin 6927, Christopher B. Krebs 4877, Gregory Nagy 1423, Jeremy Rau 4657, Panagiotis Roilos 1982 (on leave fall term), Mark Schiefsky 2354, Adrian Staehli 6796, Gisela Striker 2271, R. J. Tarrant 7503 (on leave fall term), Richard F. Thomas 1630, and Jan Ziolkowski 7275
Note: For graduate students whose individual needs are not met by the formal courses offered.
*Classics 302. Special Examinations Direction
Catalog Number: 2686
Shaye J.D. Cohen 4180, Kathleen M. Coleman 2289, Emma Dench 5243 (on leave 2011-12), Charles Donahue, Jr. (Law School) 2650, John Duffy 1352 (on leave 2011-12), Susanne Ebbinghaus 5184, David F. Elmer 5574, James Hankins 1239, Albert Henrichs 4085, Paul Joseph Kosmin 6927, Christopher B. Krebs 4877, Gregory Nagy 1423, Jeremy Rau 4657, Panagiotis Roilos 1982 (on leave fall term), Mark Schiefsky 2354, Adrian Staehli 6796, Gisela Striker 2271, R. J. Tarrant 7503 (on leave fall term), Richard F. Thomas 1630, and Jan Ziolkowski 7275
*Classics 350. Classical Philology: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 4026
Richard F. Thomas
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4.
Designed to introduce graduate students in Classical Philology to the essential fields, tools, and methodologies of the discipline.
Note: For first-year students working toward the PhD in Classical Philology. Open to other students by permission of instructor.
Greek Aab. Beginning Greek (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 0714
Ivy Livingston and assistants
Full course (spring term). M. through F., at 9, M., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 2, 6, 11
For students with little or no previous instruction in Greek who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Greek Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Greek Ba or Bb.
Note: No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Greek during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling.
Greek Ab (formerly Greek B). Beginning Greek
Catalog Number: 0457
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., Th., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6, 15
Continuation of Greek Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages.
Note: No auditors. May be taken pass/fail.
Prerequisite: Greek Aa or equivalent.
Greek Ac. Review and Reading
Catalog Number: 8283
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W. through F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5, 14
For students with more than one year of formal training in Greek who do not place into Greek Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Greek Bb or Ba.
Note: No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail.
Greek Ba (formerly Greek 3). Introduction to Attic Prose
Catalog Number: 4696
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A bridge between the study of Greek grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles.
Prerequisite: Greek Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Greek Bb (formerly Greek 4). Selections from Homer’s Iliad
Catalog Number: 3361
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An introduction to Homeric poetry: language, meter, formulae, and type scenes.
Prerequisite: Greek Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Greek Bbm. Introduction to Late Antique and Medieval/Byzantine Poetry
Catalog Number: 9131
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Greek poetry from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Readings will correspond to interests of participants. Review of grammar, syntax, and linguistic developments in post-classical Greek.
Prerequisite: Greek Ba, Ac, or permission of the instructor.
[Greek K. Advanced Greek Prose Composition]
Catalog Number: 4171
Instructor to be determined
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Composition in the prose style of various authors and genres, with selected readings representing the development of Greek prose and its analysis by scholars, ancient and modern.
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
Prerequisite: Greek H or equivalent.
Greek 104. Herodotus
Catalog Number: 6340
Gregory Nagy and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
The Histories of Herodotus will be analyzed not only as historiography but also as literature, including scientific and philosophical literature. The shared readings in the original Greek cover the following: Herodotus: I 1-130, III 1-16, 30-87, VIII 18-99. Students will be encouraged to work on other selections as well, in accordance with their chosen research topics.
[Greek 112a. History of Greek Literature I]
Catalog Number: 3052
Instructor to be determined and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of early Greek poetry and prose, with readings from Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, lyric poetry, and Herodotus. Discussions of genre in relation to performance, historical contexts, thematic (dis)continuities, oral tradition.
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
Greek 112b. History of Greek Literature II
Catalog Number: 6889
David F. Elmer and assistant
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 1–2:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A survey of Greek literature of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Reading of extended selections from Attic drama, historiography, philosophical writers, and Hellenistic poets, with discussion of social context, literary history, and interpretive issues.
Greek 116r. Greek Lyric Poetry
Catalog Number: 4575
David F. Elmer
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Selections from elegiac, iambic, and lyric poets with attention to issues of performance, social and political context, genre, and poetic technique.
Greek 124. The Greek Novel
Catalog Number: 3089
Albert Henrichs and assistant
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to the most popular genre of Greek prose fiction and its cultural role in the late Hellenistic and early imperial era, with emphasis on genre, chronology and authorship. Selections from several extant novels as well as fragments of new novels on papyrus are read in Greek; the rest in translation.
Note: May be taken for graduate credit with permission of the instructor; this will require an extra weekly session and additional coursework.
Greek 134. The Language of Homer
Catalog Number: 5139
Jeremy Rau
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 1.
Essentials of Greek comparative and historical grammar, and a close reading of Iliad 1 and 3. Diachronic aspects of Homeric grammar and diction.
Latin Aab. Beginning Latin (Intensive)
Catalog Number: 7111
Ivy Livingston and assistants
Full course (fall term). M. through F., at 9, M., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
For students with little or no previous instruction in Latin who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Latin Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Latin Ba, Bb, Bam, or Bbm.
Note: No auditors. May be taken pass/fail. Students with more than one year of formal instruction should take the Harvard placement test in Latin during Freshman Week and consult with the Course Head before enrolling. This course will only be offered in the fall term.
Latin Ab (formerly Latin B). Beginning Latin
Catalog Number: 2101
Ivy Livingston and assistants
Half course (spring term). Section I: M., W., Th., F., at 9; Section II: M., W., Th., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
Continuation of Latin Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages.
Note: No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite: Latin Aa or equivalent.
Latin Ac. Review and Reading
Catalog Number: 7033
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., Th., F., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2, 11
For students with more than one year of formal training in Latin who do not place into Latin Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Latin Ba or Bb.
Note: No auditors. May be taken Pass/Fail.
Latin Ba (formerly Latin 3). Latin Prose Selections (Classical)
Catalog Number: 2344
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
A bridge between the study of Latin grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles. The readings are short selections from a variety of genres by authors such as Cicero, Pliny, Nepos, Sallust, and Petronius.
Prerequisite: Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Latin Bam (formerly Latin 3m). Latin Prose Selections (Late Antique and Medieval)
Catalog Number: 7123
Jan Ziolkowski and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Provides a bridge between study of grammar and reading of prose. After review of fundamentals, studies short selections of post-classical texts and authors such as Vulgate Bible, Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Abelard, and Dante.
Prerequisite: Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Latin Bb (formerly Latin 4). Introduction to Latin Poetry (Classical)
Catalog Number: 2488
Ivy Livingston and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Reading of selections of Latin poetry and introduction to meter.
Prerequisite: Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Latin Bbm (formerly Latin 4m). Introduction to Latin Poetry (Late Antique and Medieval)
Catalog Number: 2096
Jan Ziolkowski and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 2
Reading of selections of Medieval Latin poetry and introduction to quantitative meter and rhythmical poetry. Aims to facilitate the reading through study of short selections of post-classical poetry from authors such as Ambrose, Alcuin, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and Aquinas.
Prerequisite: Latin Ab, Aab, Ac, or equivalent.
Latin K. Advanced Latin Prose Composition: Seminar
Catalog Number: 5018
Christopher B. Krebs
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
Exercise in the prose style of different authors and periods, working within various subject areas and genres. As a guide to composition, we will read and analyze illustrative passages from major authors, including Cato, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Tacitus, as well as some distinctive styles in lesser-known authors.
Latin 102a. Catullus and Horace
Catalog Number: 12148
Andreas Thomas Zanker
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
This class will concentrate on the work of two great Roman lyricists, Catullus and Horace. In addition to covering lexical, metrical, and stylistic concerns, we shall look at the literary and social context and consider issues of interpretation and the question of genre.
Latin 104. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Catalog Number: 5189
R. J. Tarrant and assistant
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Ovid’s witty, exuberant, and learned epic of change and mortality encompasses the history of the world from its creation to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. This course examines the work’s shaping of narrative and myth, its generic multiformity (embracing tragic, elegiac, comic, and pastoral motifs, as well as epic), and its equally complex vision of human existence.
Latin 106a. Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics
Catalog Number: 1456
Richard F. Thomas and assistant
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
This course focuses on Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics. We aim to read and interpret those texts, and to place them in literary and historical context.
[Latin 112a. History of Latin Literature I]
Catalog Number: 7099
Instructor to be determined and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The literature of the Republic and early Augustan period. Reading of extensive selections from the major authors, with lectures and discussion on the evolution and development of Latin prose and poetry. The course focuses on a variety of issues: Latin individuality through manipulation of inherited Greek forms, metrical and stylistic developments, evolving poetics, intertextuality and genre renewal, dynamic effects of social and political contexts.
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
Latin 112b. History of Latin Literature II
Catalog Number: 7643
Andreas Thomas Zanker and assistant
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
The literature of the late Republic and Principate. We shall read extensive selections from major authors across a range of genres, considering their form and content against their historical contexts. Class will consist of a mixture of prepared translation from Latin and introductory lectures.
Latin 123. Apuleius’ Metamorphoses - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 33182
David F. Elmer
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Intensive study of Apuleius’ exuberant masterpiece The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses). Close reading of extended selections in Latin will be complemented by discussion of the work as a whole from a variety of standpoints, including: narratology, the second sophistic, Apuleius’ supposed ’Africanisms,’ intertextuality, ancient mystery religions.
[Latin 129. Latin Epigraphy]
Catalog Number: 1088
Kathleen M. Coleman
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions from across the Empire in all media, chiefly stone, but also clay, glass, metal, mosaic, plaster, and wood. Texts to studied range from official documents (senatorial decrees, colonial charters, market-timetables) to personal records (epitaphs, “lost and found” notices, amatory graffiti), from the late Republic to the early Christian period. Students learn how to transcribe, supplement, and translate these texts, and interpret them within their social and cultural context.
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
[Latin 134. Archaic Latin]
Catalog Number: 1327
Jeremy Rau
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Essentials of Latin comparative and historical grammar, with readings of early Latin inscriptions, legal texts, and selections from Livius Andronicus, Plautus, Ennius, and Cato.
Note: Expected to be given in 2012–13.
Classical Philology 227. Latin Lexicography: Seminar
Catalog Number: 48563
Christopher B. Krebs
Half course (fall term). M., 4–6.
Introduction into the history and the workings of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in the broader context of lexicography and semantics. We will begin by studying TLL articles with an eye to their structure, abbreviations, and symbols, and then compare the variant lexicographical approaches of the early, middle, and later volumes. Participants will subsequently undertake lexicographical work on selected passages and will thereby be involved in the writing of articles.
Note: Upon successful completion of the course participants may apply for a summer fellowship at the TLL in Munich.
Classical Philology 249. The Greek Dialects: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 25067
Jeremy Rau
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
A systematic introduction to the Greek dialects and their historical and comparative grammar. Reading knowledge of Greek required.
Classical Philology 275. The Text of Horace’s Odes: An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 55281
R. J. Tarrant
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Discussion of selected textual problems in Horace’s Odes. The course aims to provide an introduction to the issues and methods involved in editing classical texts.
Classical Philology 276. Aesthetics in Hellenistic and Augustan Poetry: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 70388
Richard F. Thomas
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Theories of the aesthetic from Plato to Kant and beyond, with practical enquiry on Callimachus, Apollonius, Theocritus; Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid. Emphasis on philology, metrics, intertextuality, with exploration of aesthetic aspects of reception, including translation.
Classical Philology 291. Epicureanism: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 63396
Mark Schiefsky
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Close study of key Greek and Latin sources on ancient Epicureanism, with class presentations on special topics.
Classical Philology 292. Hellenism in the East—Colonialism, Assimilation, and Revolt: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 37342
Paul Joseph Kosmin
Half course (spring term). W., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
This course will discuss the modes of ethnic, religious, and political encounters generated by Alexander the Great’s successor kingdoms, addressing the cultural choices open to both Graeco-Macedonian colonizers and their Babylonian, Iranian, Egyptian, and Jewish subjects.
Classical Archaeology 157. The Roman Villa - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 50818
Adrian Staehli
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
In their villas, members of the Roman aristocracy indulged in a lifestyle of leisure and luxury, cultivated their passions for art, literature, scholarship or fish breeding, and refrained deliberately from business and political activities. The course explores the archaeological remains and artefacts—architecture, wall paintings, collections of sculpture, precious silver and gold ware—related to this particular Roman phenomenon of the so-called villeggiatura.
Classical Archaeology 248. Travelling with Pausanias: Seminar - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 81413
Adrian Staehli
Half course (spring term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
Pausanias’ Periegesis (2nd century AD) is the only comprehensive description of Greece to have survived from antiquity. The seminar will follow the traces of Pausanias through selected Greek sites, explore their archaeological remains, and focus particularly on the author’s selective perception of contemporary Greece as a memorial landscape of classical Greek culture.
Classical Archaeology 251. Greek Athletics - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 33924
Adrian Staehli
Half course (fall term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
This seminar explores Greek athletics as a cultural and social practice in all aspects, but with particular focus on the archaeological evidence (sanctuaries, gymnasia, dedications of victors, visual representations).
Modern Greek B. Intermediate Modern Greek: Language and Civilization
Catalog Number: 8187
Vassiliki Rapti and assistant
Full course. M., W., F., at 11, and a weekly hour for conversation on Th. at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Aims at further development of skills in speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. Selected readings in prose (literary and journalistic), poetry, folksongs, modern music, and theater serve as an introduction to aspects of modern Greek literature and culture. The course is conducted in Greek and focuses on topics selected by the instructor and the students in the first term. Grammar is reviewed in the context of readings. Instruction is supplemented by online instruction.
Prerequisite: An elementary knowledge of modern Greek (equivalent to that of Modern Greek A).
*Modern Greek 100. Advanced Modern Greek: Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Catalog Number: 8487
Vassiliki Rapti and assistant
Half course (fall term). Tu., at 2, Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17, 18
Literary, sociocultural, and linguistic analysis of selected readings in prose, poetry, plays, orally transmitted songs, and folktales.
Note: Conducted in Greek.
Prerequisite: Modern Greek B or equivalent and permission of instructor.