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: 7/10
• 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: 9/10
• 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

This course has a fourfold aim: First, it is designed to familiarize participants with the basics of Latin paleography from Roman antiquity through the age of printing with moveable type; throughout, we will practice deciphering literary and documentary sources of various types, even as we concentrate on the evolution of different writing styles. Second, we will think about paleography’s status as a discipline. That is, the term “paleography” dates back to 1708 and Montfaucon’s classic work, Palaeographia Graeca. However, it was only in the late nineteenth century in the world of the German research university that paleography came into the orbit of the Geisteswissenschaften as a “Hilfswissenschaft.” Both implicitly and explicitly throughout the seminar we shall be asking what consequences that move entailed. Third, we will study the manner in which printing with moveable type changed western graphic culture: was printing revolutionary or evolutionary? Fourth, we will become familiar with certain aspects of “the history of the book,” discovering as we do what sorts of questions scholars in this broad field of scholarly endeavor have been asking recently.

• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Celenza, Chris S.
• Room: BLC 2043
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The graduate seminar on the only surviving Greek trilogy, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, focuses on close readings of key passages from all three plays — Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides. The course examines the trilogy’s theatrical power, political resonances, gender dynamics, and its engagement with scientific and philosophical thought. Discussions will consider how Aeschylus weaves these elements into a unified dramatic and intellectual vision, attending both to the original performance context and to the plays’ enduring relevance.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria G
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• 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: MW 8:30AM - 9:45AM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• 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: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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

Graduate dissertation research with advisor.

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