Course provides comprehensive, intensive introduction to the study of ancient Greek. The first semester’s focus is morphology and vocabulary; the second semester’s emphasis is syntax and reading. Course may not be taken Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: MF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Treadway, Tashi M
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Course provides comprehensive, intensive introduction to the study of Latin for new students as well as systematic review for students with background in Latin. The first semester's emphasis is on morphology and vocabulary; the second semester's focus is on syntax and reading. Course may not be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Yang, Yuanzhang
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course investigates the Greek and Latin roots of modern medical terminology, with additional focus on the history of ancient medicine and its role in the development of that terminology.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/50
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Reading ability in classical Greek is developed through a study of various authors.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Reading ability in Latin is developed through the study of various authors, primarily Cicero (fall) and Vergil (spring).

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores the origins and lives of societies in the Aegean world from the Early Bronze Age to the Persian Wars (ca. 3100-480 B.C.), focusing on major archaeological sites, sanctuaries, material culture, and artistic production.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Latrobe 107
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 23/35
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

The course focuses on the ways in which art, different forms of performance and soundscape, and politics (including gender politics) interacted in ancient Greek societies.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course aims to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the ancient Greek language. Intensive reading of ancient Greek texts, with attention to grammar, idiom, translation, etc. Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students. Specific offerings vary. Co-listed with AS.040.702.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The aim of this course is to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language. Intensive reading of Latin texts, with close attention to matters of grammar, idiom, and translation. Co-listed with AS.040.710.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course opens up the world of science in the ancient Greek and Roman world. Areas of focus include: cosmology and Earth science, technologies of time, ancient biology, medicine and genetics, and ancient medicine. Through study of visual and material artefacts as well as Greek and Latin texts in translation, we will come to a clearer understanding of how knowledge was shared in the ancient Mediterranean, the the Greeks and Romans' indebtedness to the cultures of the ancient Near East, as well as their importance in shaping cultures of knowledge and traditions of scientific thought.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria; ni Mheallaigh, Karen; Wiegers, Yanneck
• Room: Bloomberg 274
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 23/35
• PosTag(s): n/a

Through detailed analysis of source materials, we will explore the ancient Greek and Romans’ answers to questions such as: how the cosmos and our home-world, Earth, were structured; how weather works; how climate affects human health; what causes awesome natural phenomena such as comets, earthquakes and volcanoes; what climate prevailed on the Moon; life in the ocean; ancient palaeontology; how the movements of the stars were thought to influence events here on Earth.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Ames 320
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/12
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This intensive Latin survey is designed for very advanced undergraduate students (normally those who have completed the regular undergraduate sequence through the advanced level) and PhD students preparing for their Latin translation exam. In this course, the second half of a year-long sequence, we will read substantial texts of major Imperial authors, as well as a selection of works from Late Antiquity and the Post-Classical period. The weekly pace is designed to inculcate greater speed and accuracy in Latin reading and to provide significant coverages of various kinds of texts. Prior completion of AS.040.407 preferred but not required.

• Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

How did ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Carthage) understand and represent their own and others’ identities and ethnic differences? How did notions and practices around race, citizenship, and immigration evolve from antiquity to the present? How have culture and politics informed artistic, literary, and museum representations of ethnic ‘others’ over time, along with the historical development of ethnography, biological science, and pseudo-sciences of race? What role did “Classics” (the study of Greco-Roman cultures) play in modern colonialism, racecraft, and inequality? And what role can it play in unmaking their legacies, through the ongoing Black Classicism movement, the practice of Critical Race Theory, and the development of more global and interconnective approaches to premodern cultures? RAP provides an opportunity for Hopkins undergraduates and graduate students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to engage in project-based research toward building an open-access, grant-winning educational resource (OER) on “Race in Antiquity.” Participants learn, share, and practice advanced research methods; examine and discuss the history and modern implications of the teaching and study of their fields; test-drive and collaboratively edit OER pilot materials; and create new content based on their own research, for eventual digital publication.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This research-based Lab course will involve careful reading of a variety of Roman texts of the early empire, aiming to catalogue every instance of public speech and of the orators who speak in public. This cataloguing project, perhaps eventually resulting in an online database, will include historical and comparative readings about public speech as a feature of society.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Schwartz, Glenn M
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

A study of major selected texts of Aristotle.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

When the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in his famous "Somnium" (1608) creates a fictitious dream narrative in which the earth is observed from the moon, it becomes clear that the shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric worldview entails a radical change of perspective that can be achieved only by means of the imagination. What appears as a sunrise is in reality due to the earth's own movement. Where appearance and reality diverge, the new model requires a fictional account without which it remains incomprehensible. Orbiting around Kepler’s short tale, this seminar will focus on cosmic narratives and poetic explorations of outer space, from Lucian's True Stories and Icaromenippus (2nd century CE), one of the earliest literary treatments of a journey through space, Plutarch’s dialogue On the face of the Moon (late 1st century CE), to Godwin's The Man in the Moone (1638) and Kant's »Of the Inhabitants of the Stars« (1755). What is the epistemic function of literary representations of the cosmos? Are space-travel narratives thought experiments? What role does fiction and the imagination play in the science of astronomy? By pursuing these and related questions, this course will question common assumptions about the relationship of science to fiction and the literary imagination while tracing key junctures in the history of astronomy.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

In antiquity, Rome became the capital of an empire, its growing status reflected in its sophisticated urban planning, its architecture, and the arts. While an abundance of studies explores the revival of this glorious past in the Renaissance, this seminar discusses various ways of the reception of antiquity during the medieval period. We address the practice of using spolia in medieval architecture, the appropriation of ancient pagan buildings for the performance of Christian cult practices, the continuation of making (cult)images and their veneration, the meaning and specific visuality of Latin script (paleography and epigraphy) in later medieval art. We discuss the revival and systematic study of ancient knowledge (f. ex. medicine, astronomy, and the liberal arts), in complex allegorical murals. As we aim to reconstruct the art and architecture of medieval Rome, this course discusses ideas and concepts behind different forms of re-building and picturing the past, as they intersect with the self-referential character of a city that is obsessed with its own history.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room: BLC 2043
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): HART-MED

This introductory level course examines the history, society, and culture of the Roman state in the Republican period (509-31 BCE), during which it expanded from a small city-state to a Mediterranean empire. We also consider the Republic's importance for American revolutionaries in the 18th century. All readings in English.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew; Staff
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 19/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course provides a comprehensive, intensive introduction to the study of ancient Greek. During the first semester, the focus will be on morphology and vocabulary. Cannot be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: MTThF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This course provides a comprehensive, intensive introduction to the study of Latin for new students, as well as a systematic review for those students with a background in Latin. Emphasis during the first semester will be on morphology and vocabulary. Course may not be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

Reading ability in classical Greek is developed through a study of various authors.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Although emphasis is still placed on development of rapid comprehension, readings and discussions introduce student to study of Latin literature, principally through texts of various authors.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course aims to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the ancient Greek language. Intensive reading of ancient Greek texts, with attention to grammar, idiom, translation, etc. Reading of prose or verse authors, depending on the needs of students. Specific offerings vary. Co-listed with AS.040.705.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course aims to increase proficiency and improve comprehension of the Latin language. Intensive reading of Latin texts, with attention to grammar, idiom, translation, etc. Specific offerings vary. Co-listed with AS.040.707.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

What does it mean to translate? Is a translation merely a transposition of a text or speech from one language to another, or does it entail more? Can the act of translating happen between different genres? What does critical reading entail? In this class we will use the well-known myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to answer these and other questions by analyzing different versions of the myth that span across time, space, language, genre, and media. We will not just learn about translation broadly defined, but also about the metaphor of translation as a transition or a crossing between (or a-cross) multiple entities. Much like Orpheus, we will embark upon a journey of discovery full of forks and twists in the road, only to discover that what Orpheus was searching for might not be as far removed from contemporary questions of identity, self, and our place in the world.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Ancient Greece and Rome have played key roles in shaping the United States’ political and civic institutions. They have also helped justify racialized enslavement, colonialism, and eugenics, and continue to be appropriated to support white supremacist ideologies and anti-immigrant policies – even from the floor of Congress. This course invites students to dialogue with D.C. practitioners and classics scholars from across the field who are working to set the public record straight about the multiculturalism of the Greco-Roman world, as well as to expose and repair the discipline's history of racism and exclusion. Students will host, introduce, and moderate public talks by pairs of scholar-practitioners, always including at least one DC-based guest; participate in hands-on workshops and museum tours; develop content for digital publication as part of the “Race in Antiquity” open-access educational resource (PI: Pandey) and potentially work with DC partners to identify opportunities for curriculum or policy outcomes. The speaker series at the heart of this course builds on a March 2024 symposium at Homewood, organized to synergize with Pandey’s Classics Research Lab.

• Days/Times: M 2:30PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: 555 Penn 
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 25/25
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this seminar, students will sail through the world of science fiction, from the fantastic voyages recorded by ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, to classic nineteenth-century sci-fi novels by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, and Jules Verne. As we will learn, sci-fi stories (both ancient and modern) have been pulled in two directions: forward, in the direction of innovative scientific exploration; and backward, toward a dim pre-history of monsters and magic. Along the way, sci-fi writers have wrestled with age-old social issues such as morality and mortality; gender and sexuality; and social constructions of the Other through categories like race. Ultimately, students in this seminar will learn how to peer back into the distant past and (re)examine how we approach the icy edges of our own world.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Stutz, Kathryn Hayley
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This intensive Ancient Greek survey is designed for very advanced undergraduate students--normally those who have completed two semesters of Advanced Greek (AS.040.305/306)--and PhD students preparing for their Ancient Greek translation exam. In this course, the first half of a year-long sequence, we will read substantial texts of major Archaic and Classical authors. The weekly pace is designed to inculcate greater speed and accuracy in Greek reading, and provide significant coverage of various kinds of texts. Recommended background: AS.040.305-306 or equivalent Prerequisite(s): AS.040.305 AND AS.040.306 or permission of instructor.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables students to join an ongoing project of real, collaborative research in humanities, under the auspices of the Classics Research Lab (CRL). Launched in January 2019, JASP investigates the life and work of the Victorian scholar and writer John Addington Symonds (1840–93). Symonds, trained at Oxford in Classics, was the author of one of the first major studies in English of Ancient Greek Sexuality, “A Problem in Greek Ethics,” printed in just ten copies, one of which is held by Johns Hopkins. He also introduced the word “homosexual,” first coined in German, into English print, and his influence on the emerging struggle for LGBTQ+ rights was immense. A major task of JASP has been the reconstruction of the contents of his personal library, in part on the basis of rare archival materials and the recently published full text of his secret autobiography. More information is available at symondsproject.org. In Fall 2024 JASP will partly turn its attention to Symonds’s life and network in Venice, Italy, which he frequently visited and about which he wrote several important works. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator, Prof. Shane Butler (Classics), participants will learn advanced research methods, generate new knowledge, and disseminate their results. No prerequisites or prior training in Classics or the humanities required, but students should be ready to work both independently and collaboratively.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

This course enables students to join an ongoing project of real, collaborative research in humanities, under the auspices of the Classics Research Lab (CRL). Launched in January 2019, JASP investigates the life and work of the Victorian scholar and writer John Addington Symonds (1840–93). Symonds, trained at Oxford in Classics, was the author of one of the first major studies in English of Ancient Greek Sexuality, “A Problem in Greek Ethics,” printed in just ten copies, one of which is held by Johns Hopkins. He also introduced the word “homosexual,” first coined in German, into English print, and his influence on the emerging struggle for LGBTQ+ rights was immense. A major task of JASP has been the reconstruction of the contents of his personal library, in part on the basis of rare archival materials and the recently published full text of his secret autobiography. More information is available at symondsproject.org. In Fall 2024 JASP will partly turn its attention to Symonds’s life and network in Venice, Italy, which he frequently visited and about which he wrote several important works. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator, Prof. Shane Butler (Classics), participants will learn advanced research methods, generate new knowledge, and disseminate their results. No prerequisites or prior training in Classics or the humanities required, but students should be ready to work both independently and collaboratively.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Classicists, medievalists, and early modernists have always been interested in the history of the books (and the papyri and the rolls) in which the texts they study survive, and this course will survey these traditional modes of bibliography and their importance. We will also look at the social contexts of reading in all periods as a more theoretically sophisticated account of book history has urged us to do in recent decades. Particular attention will be given to modes of transmission of texts between written media, including the digital, but with an emphasis on the synchronic and diachronic importance of orality and aurality, dictation and transcription.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Cannon, Christopher
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800

An introduction to archaeology and to archaeological method and theory, exploring how archaeologists excavate, analyze, and interpret ancient remains in order to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned. Specific examples from a variety of archaeological projects in different parts of the world will be used to illustrate techniques and principles discussed.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 29/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

A survey of the earlier phase of Greek philosophy. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will be discussed, as well as two groups of thinkers who preceded them, usually known as the pre-Socratics and the Sophists.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

A study of later Greek philosophy, stretching roughly from the death of Aristotle to the Roman imperial period. Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics will be the main philosophical schools examined.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Bett, Richard
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

This course revisits the idea of tragedy as represented in Ancient Greek thought for the purpose of approaching questions of flourishing and ethical living from a different angle.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lebron, Christopher Joseph
• Room: Gilman 134
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN