The Courses, Listed by Number
Classics Department
Greek 100s: Elementary Greek (language and linguistics aside)
The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars and their intellectual
currents
Aristophanes, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, Demosthenes
Latin 100s: Elementary Latin (language and linguistics aside)
Legends and history through Augustus
Horace and Vergil
Daily life at home and in public
Art and architecture
Triad 14: Classical Lyric Poetry
The poetic form of personal response to forces not always within human control -- e.g., love, gender, age, war
Archilochus, Semonides, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Sappho, Solon, Pindar, Catullus, Horace, Ovid
Triad 16: Literature of the Cosmopolis (The Hellenistic Period)
Interplay of literary form and Hellenistic
philosophies and events as three strands converge: heroic
traditions of
the classical Greek polis, the cosmopolis of
Hellenistic empires, and Old Roman mores
Menander, Daphnis and Chloe, Theocritus, Greek Anthology, Satyricon
Triad 18: Classical Art of Persuasion
The connection between a philosophy of life and its ways of persuasion
Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero
Dyad 20: Medieval Latin Literature
The synergy of Greco-Roman and Christian forms of language and literature
Jerome, Augustine, Boethius, Bernard, Cassiodorus,
Einhard, Alcuin, Hrothsvitha, the Archpoet,
the Carmina Burana, scholastics,
crusaders, anti-crusaders, heretics, humanists
Triad 22: Classical Art of History
"Story" of events and "History" of interpretation of their causality: plan, justice, chance, choice?
Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus
Triad 24: Classical Tragedy
Literary form, political turbulence, and their intersection in questions of justice, law, fate, chance, and responsibility
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca
Triad 26: Classical Laughter
Comedy and satire as literary form and catharsis in three contexts: social, philosophical, and psycho-biological
Aristophanes, Plautus, Horace (Satires), Juvenal
Triad 28: Classical Epic
War for one's community's purpose, for personal
purpose, and for home as embodiment of the questions of
what's worth living and dying for
Iliad, Odyssey (Homer), Aeneid (Vergil)
World Literature 210: Greek Literature
Literary form creating models of reality about the concept of the self and its relation to nature and society
Homer, Greek lyrics, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
World Literature 212: Greek Mythology
Myth as a literary response to perennial questions
about personal biology and psychology, social roles,
and the historical meaning of the self
Gilgamesh, Euripides, Catullus, Ovid, Apuleius
Department of Art and Art History
Art History 165: Western Art: Ancient ó Early Christian
Department of History
History 214: Ancient Greece
The "story" of the events and
the "stuff" of material, intellectual, spiritual, and
private existence: periods, personalities,
the domestic and private experience, the national
and public experience, the sources by which we know what
we think we know -- in ancient Greece
History 215: Ancient Rome
The "story" of the events and
the "stuff" of material, intellectual, spiritual, and
private existence: periods, personalities,
the domestic and private experience, the national
and public experience, the sources by which we know what
we think we know -- in ancient Rome
Department of Philosophy
Philosophy 140: Ancient Philosophy
Department of Religion
Hebrew 100-101-102: Elementary Biblical Hebrew
Religion 311: History, Culture, and Archaeology
Religion 315: Interpreting Paul
Religion 316: Jesus and the Early Church
Gilgamesh: The upper and lower limits of humanity.
Homer: Discovering the idea of self.
Archilochus: Selfhood.
Sappho: Nature, society, and self founded on Eros.
Aeschylus: Justice and progress through heroism.
Bacchylides: Synthesis of the heroic, the just, and the divinely-sanctioned for the Polis
Sophocles: Moral heroism versus collapse into the bestial.
Euripides: The irrational non-self within.
Aristophanes: Selfhood and catharsis: comic heroism.
Menander: Society and catharsis: ethical normality.
Theocritus: The mosaic of enigmas in history and timelessness.
Plautus: Old Roman mores and comic catharsis.
Greek Anthology: Archetype and individual.
Catullus: Irony of "heroism" and Old Roman mores. The self and its loves and hates as empire.
Cicero: Rhetoric, Old Roman mores, and Hellenistic philosophy.
Horace: In satire, Epicurean catharsis; in lyric, Epicurean synthesis of Hellenic and Old Roman.
Vergil: Nature, philosophy, history, country, self: the tragedy of no synthesis.
Propertius: Elegiac love and the quest for a New Roman.
Tibullus: Elegiac love as tragedy.
Sulpicia: Elegiac love and the Matrona: rebellion.
Ovid: Escape from Old Roman mores, tragedy, and meaning.
Persius: Stoic catharsis in satire.
Petronius: The death of Old Roman eloquence. Its heirs and their implications for values.
Juvenal: Cynic catharsis in satire.
Apuleius: Syncretism: unity, diversity, innovation.
Longus: The romance of nostalgia . Escape from history.
Hrotsvitha : Classical New Comedy + Christian History = Divine comedy.
The Archpoet: Selfhood anew.
1) Classical Humanities a) Classical concepts and constructs b) Classical history and story c) Modern methods of analysis d) Skills e) Vicarious life: the observation of themes 2) Classical concepts and constructs a) Nature b) Society c) Self d) Interactions of nature, society, and self i) Gender ii) Heroism iii) Value terms 3) Classical history and story 4) Traditional and modern methods of analysis a) Literary form i ) Close reading ii) Prosody iii) Genre (1) Epic (2) Lyric (3) Tragedy (4) Comedy (5) Rhetoric (6) History b) Social history c) Mythology 5) Skills a) Research b) Critical analysis c) Languages d) Linguistic analysis 6) Vicarious life: Themes as perspectives on perennial questions i) Causality (1) Divine? (2) Free? (3) Morally conditioned? ii) The best society (1) The criteria? (2) Autonomy? (3) Who decides? iii) True happiness (1) What Summum Bonum? (2) Limits? (3) Autonomy?
Thomas R. Banks,
Professor, Chair
Dorothy Parkander Professor of
Literature
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Minnesota
Emil A. Kramer,
Assistant Professor
B. A., Texas; M.A., Georgia; Ph.D., Cincinnati
Robert D. Haak, Associate Professor (Religion)
MAJOR IN CLASSICS (emphasis in Greek or in Latin). Eight Classics courses and two required supporting courses, distributed as follows:
Classics courses (24 credits): Three Greek courses or three Latin courses numbered above 200; two courses numbered above 300 in the same language; 401; and two other courses in Greek or Latin. These last two may not include CL 111 or 101, 102 or 103 in the same language as the other five Greek or Latin courses.
Required supporting courses (6 credits): History 214 or 215; one of Art History 165, Philosophy 140, Religion 311, 315, 316.
MAJOR FOR TEACHING LATIN. 34 credits for a first field, 21 for a second field. Please see the Director of Secondary Education and the Chair of Classics.
MINOR IN CLASSICS. Six courses (18 credits), distributed as follows:
Core language and literature: Three Greek courses or three Latin courses numbered above 200, with at least one of the three numbered above 300.
Linguistic and disciplinary diversity: Three courses in one of the following areas: 1) three courses in the other classical language. 2) Art History 165; History 214, 215; Philosophy 140; Religion 311, 315, 316. 3) Hebrew 100-101-102 and one of the preceding courses in Greek, Latin, art history, history, philosophy or religion.
Classics courses in World Literature (WL), Greek (GK) and Latin (LT) are organized into groups as follows:
Classical Lyric Poetry: WL 214, GK 214/314, LT 214/314. T. Banks.
Literature of the Cosmopolis: WL 216, GK 216/316, LT 216/316. T. Banks.
The Art of Persuasion: WL 218, GK 218/318, LT 218/318. T. Banks.
Medieval Latin Literature: WL 220, LT 220/320. T. Banks.
The Art of History: WL 222, GK 222/322, LT 222/322. E. Kramer.
Classical Tragedy: WL 224, GK 224/324, LT 224/324.T. Banks.
Classical Laughter: WL 226, GK 226/326, LT 226/326. T. Banks.
Classical Epic: WL 228, GK 228/328, LT 228/328.E. Kramer.
Classics courses for which no knowledge of Greek or Latin is required: (CL):
A systematic approach to the large vocabulary of the life sciences via the relatively small number of Greek and Latin base-words underlying it. The course takes up these base-words, the patterns in which they change and the forms they take in anatomical and scientific names. The course may not be counted towards a Classics major.
The following World Literature courses from Classics are described in the World Literature section of this catalog.
210 [L] Greek Literature (3) T. Banks.
212 [L] Greek Mythology (3) T. Banks.
214 [L] Classical Lyric Poetry (3) T. Banks.
216 [L] Literature of the Cosmopolis (3) T. Banks.
218 [L] The Art of Persuasion (3) T. Banks.
220 [L] Medieval Latin Literature (3) T. Banks.
222 [L] The Art of History (3) E. Kramer.
224 [L] Classical Tragedy (3) T. Banks
226 [L] Classical Laughter (3) T. Banks.
228 [L] Classical Epic (3) E. Kramer.
Courses numbered above 200 are normally offered in alternate years.
An introduction to both the New Testament koiné and Classical varieties of ancient Greek. By the end of the third term, students have the basic skills needed to read most Attic and Hellenistic prose.
Translation of Greek lyric poetry and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman lyric. 314 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 214, Greek 103; for 314, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Lyric group.
Translation of koiné Greek texts and a survey (in English readings) of Greek and Roman literature of the koiné era. 316 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 216, Greek 103; for 316, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Literature of the Cosmopolis group.
Translation of Greek literature of persuasion and a survey (in English readings) of Greek and Roman rhetoric. 318 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 218, Greek 103; for 318, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Art of Persuasion group.
Translation of Greek historians and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman historical writing. 322 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 222, Greek 103; for 322, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Art of History group.
Translation of Greek tragedy and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman tragedy. 324 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 224, Greek 103; for 324, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Tragedy group.
Translation of Aristophanes and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman comedy and satire. 326 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisites: for 226, Greek 103; for 326, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Laughter group.
Translation of Homeric epic and readings (in English) from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and from Vergil's Aeneid. 328 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 228, Greek 103; for 328, Greek above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Epic group.
Courses numbered above 200 are normally offered in alternate years.
For students placed in 102 by the Latin placement test. They may, with the consent of the department, register for 100 (they cannot take 101), and then continue with 102-103. Prerequisites: placement in 102 and consent of department.
The basics of Latin, with appropriate readings in prose and poetry.
Translation of Latin Lyric poetry and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman lyric. 314 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 214, Latin 103; for 314, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Lyric group.
Translation of the Latin Vulgate or the Satyricon and a survey (in English readings) of Greek and Roman literature of the koiné era. 316 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 216, Latin 103; for 316, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Literature of the Cosmopolis group.
Translation of Latin speeches of persuasion and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman rhetoric. 318 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 218, Latin 103; for 318, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Art of Persuasion group.
Translation of Medieval Latin texts and a survey (in English readings) of Medieval Latin literature. 320 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 220, Latin 103; for 320, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Medieval Latin Literature group.
Translation of Latin historians and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman historical writing. 322 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 222, Latin 103; for 322, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Art of History group.
Translation of tragedy by Seneca and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman tragedy. 324 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 224, Latin 103; for 324, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Tragedy group.
Translation of satires by Horace and a survey (in English readings) of classical Greek and Roman comedy and satire. 326 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 226, Latin 103; for 326, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Laughter Group.
Translation from Vergil's Aeneid and readings (in English) from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and from the Aeneid. 328 students do upper-division reading and research. Prerequisite: for 228, Latin 103; for 328, Latin above 200. Precludes taking other courses in the Classical Epic Group.
An introduction to the Hebrew of the Hebrew Bible. By the end of the third term, students will be able to read the text of the Hebrew Bible with the aid of lexica. The sequence is offered when feasible, which is normally every third year.
Opportunity for students to study a particular subject under a faculty member's guidance. Prerequisite: permission of department chair and instructor.
Analysis of the background, structure and policy issues in the placement organization. During the academic year this course must be taken concurrently with Internship 388 and 389. See Internship for additional information and requirements for internship placements. Prerequisites: acceptance into the program by the internship committee and a declared major or minor in classics.
Reading and analysis of selected literature.
A course with three objectives for the senior Classics major:
1) comprehension of the Classical world knowing how its disparate
times and places touch; 2) consolidation of scholarship knowing
the main research tools of Classics and how to use them in concert;
3) creation knowing how to contribute to scholarship. Student
and professor together design a project to meet the objectives.
Prerequisite: consent of department.
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