This graduate seminar (welcoming advanced undergrads with instructor permission) examines epic literature’s entanglements with empire, colonialism, ethnicity, indigeneity, and slavery via critical readings of Vergil’s Aeneid. Students will gain methodological and pragmatic familiarity with movements to ‘decolonize’ and globalize the study of antiquity. As a counterbalance to Classics’ historical service to imperialism, we will read Vergil alongside other literary epics on race, identity, and belonging, representing diverse global languages, belief systems, geographies, and positionalities. We will also survey classics of postcolonial thought, from Fanon to Hartman, and apply their theories and methods to primary sources. Our hope is to incubate reparative approaches to the Aeneid and epic literature while also evaluating novel methodologies of comparison, reception, resistant interpretation, and critical fabulation. Classics graduate students will read the Aeneid in Latin. Undergraduate and non-Classics graduate students may read in translation but should plan on substantial engagement with an additional epic of their choice. All will hone professional skills as they produce a final research paper suitable for conference presentation or open-access web publication on race-time.net.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This collaborative seminar meets jointly with students from MICA to design an exhibition concerning a cast collection of ancient Mediterranean sculpture, founded in 1881, that resided at both institutions during different moments in its history (part of the collection is still located at MICA, where art students regularly engage with it). Participants will explore the dynamic position of the collection between these two urban institutions and its existence as part of the ongoing history of the city. This course is associated with the Baltimore ReCast Classics Research Lab. Advanced undergraduates can contact the instructor about joining the course.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.306.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.308. Recommended Course Background: AS.040.207-AS.040.208.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The ancient Egyptians played many games, as we do today. Board games, ball games, games of skill, etc., were not only part of daily life, but also had a role to play in religious practices and beliefs. Although the rules of the games are largely unknown to us, archaeological objects, funerary images, and texts help us to better understand their roles and meanings in ancient Egyptian culture. These various sources also show how games reflect (or contradict) some facets of the organization of the society, and reveal how the ancient Egyptians perceived some aspects of their world - social hierarchy, gender division, representation of death, relationship to chance/fate/divine will, etc. This course will present the evolution of games and play in Ancient Egypt from the 4th millennium BCE, with the first board game discovered in the tomb of a woman, through those deposited in the tomb of Tutankhamun, and up to the Roman period. By replacing the games in their archaeological, historical and cultural contexts, the course is also intended as an original introduction to the civilization of ancient Egypt. The course will consist mainly of lectures given by the professor, with several guest researchers. Examinations will be divided into three parts: two knowledge quizzes during the semester; at the end of the semester, an essay on an Egyptian game of the student's choice.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 14/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Celenza, Chris S.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This graduate seminar examines classical antiquity’s vibrant and varied approaches toward the enraptured experiences of poetry—its creation, performance, and consumption. Subtopics include conceptions of divine inspiration, metaphors for literary inheritance, modes of reading and listening, and more. Knowledge of Greek and Latin is preferred but not required.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 2:30PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar will explore the tradition of mapping the night sky that, for the Greeks, had its roots in the poems of Homer and (more especially) Hesiod, and was definitively shaped by Eudoxus in two prose works (Phaenomena and Enoptron). Eudoxus’ work was versified by Aratus (Phaenomena), a poem that was subsequently translated into several Latin versions (e.g. by Cicero, Germanicus), and accompanied a rich visual repertoire. Key points for discussion will include the politics and poetics of mapping the night sky, intersections between mythical/scientific/philosophical traditions, the didactic voice, and translation between Greek, Latin; prose, verse; text and image.

• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 4:15PM, Th 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen; Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 400; Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.305. Recommended Course Background: AS.040.205-AS.040.206.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.307.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course is to develop essential teaching skills.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Celenza, Chris S.
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will use the meanings and methodologies of “materiality” to examine the medieval world, by analyzing objects, texts, networks, patterns of circulation and appropriation, aesthetics and enshrinement, production and knowledge communities.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
• Room: Gilman 305
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 3/8
• PosTag(s): n/a