This graduate seminar investigates the intersection of crafting and cultural interaction among the regions of the Aegean, eastern Mediterranean and Near East from 3000-500 BCE (Bronze and Iron Ages).

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.; Feldman, Marian
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC

This course provides you with the opportunity to explore, from literary, material, and anthropological perspectives, the reasons people went missing in the ancient world. We will investigate how individuals experienced their inability to contact relatives and friends while missing, and how, upon their return after years of absence, they were identified and recognized by those left behind. You will gain a sophisticated understanding of how the phenomenon of missing persons is connected to shifting socio-historical contexts and developments, including mobility, transportation technologies, and human identification technologies. Throughout the course, we will untangle related and overlapping categories such as missingness, absence, and lostness. Additionally, we will examine how the conditions of a missing person in ancient times differ from the modern concept of missingness, considering the extensive systems of record-keeping, surveillance, and more comprehensive communication technologies now available. While our exploration will span classical antiquity, our seminar will be anchored in Homer’s Odyssey—a poem that delves into the themes of travelers, the yearning for home, missingness, and recognition.

• Days/Times: F 11:30AM - 2:00PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• 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:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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: 8/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

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: 3/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

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

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: 5/5
• PosTag(s): HART-MED

This seminar examines the entanglement of Roman-period literature with enslavement. It explores the involvement of enslaved workers (secretaries, performers, teachers et al.) in the production, reception, and circulation of Latin and Greek literary texts. It also asks how literary texts represent enslavement and how enslavement inflects Roman literature’s aesthetic and political projects. Participants will gain exposure to research methods in connected subfields (e.g. epigraphy, papyrology, book history) and will discuss recent interventions in archival theory. The seminar will also give special consideration to the relationship between enslavement and the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum’s collection of one hundred fifty Latin inscriptions from the Roman period.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Londa, Christopher
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This graduate seminar investigates a range of Roman cultural practices through the lens of "play" and "ludism." Beginning with some classic studies of play (Huizunga and others) we will look at a variety of Roman practices lexically designated as "play" (esp. schooling, gladiatorial contests, and sex) and consider such activities' relationship to a broader range of "acting as if" activities, such as religious ritual, drama, and "exercises" of various types.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/20
• 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:
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• 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:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• 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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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

No Audits.

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