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 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Skoutelas, Charissa Martha
• Room: Gilman 108; Gilman 114
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

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: Nakajima, Keisuke
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/10
• 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: ni Mheallaigh, Karen; Yang, Yuanzhang
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 1/8
• 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 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Treadway, Tashi M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/10
• 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: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/5
• 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: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course explores the dynamic work, lived contexts and social roles of craftspersons in early Greece, the eastern Mediterranean and Near East. Readings and discussion will query the identities and contributions of these people—travelers, captives, lauded masters, and even children—through topics including gender, class and ethnicity. Special focus on late third–early first millennia BCE; local field trips.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/17
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM

This course explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek drama through the lenses of feminist theory, gender studies, and the intersection of performance and gender. By analyzing key passages from significant texts and contextualizing them within their social, cultural, and theoretical frameworks, students will examine how ancient narratives about women continue to resonate with contemporary gender issues. The course will culminate in the creation of a theatrical piece—a compilation of women's monologues from ancient Greek drama—allowing students to design, adapt, and perform their interpretations in a final performance.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria G
• Room: Hodson 211
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course proposes an in-depth exploration of Homer’s Iliad in translation. Our goal will be to learn the skill of slow reading in order to gain a fuller understanding of the poem. We will study, on average, two books per week. Core topics include: understanding the tradition of oral poetry out of which the Iliad emerged in the 8th century BCE, the past it evokes, and the historical and social context in which – and in response to which - it grew. We will examine the poem’s extraordinarily complex structure and self-positioning within the so-called ‘epic cycle’, as well as themes it treats, including: kingship and reciprocity, the role of honour and glory, family, death, memory, and – most poignantly of all - the role of song and art in the midst of war. The course will be writing intensive, and will require the submission of a short piece of critical writing each week.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/25
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

This intensive Ancient Greek 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 Ancient Greek translation exam. In this course, the second half of a year-long sequence, we will read substantial texts of major Hellenistic and Imperial authors, as well as a selection of works from Late Antiquity. The weekly pace is designed to inculcate greater speed and accuracy in Greek reading and to provide significant coverages of various kinds of texts. Prior completion of AS.040.417 preferred but not required. Prerequisite(s): AS.040.305 AND AS.040.306 or equivalent.

• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar 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: 9/12
• PosTag(s): CDS-EWC

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: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/5
• 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: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

This course aims to reflect on the most iconic myths of classical antiquity, to be re–read through the contribution of psychoanalytic theories. In class, we will analyze the ten proposed women mythological figures, to be divided according to three major categories of wicked wives and mothers, abandoned women, and nonhuman female monsters, in their evolutions through the centuries, in order to note and investigate their new meanings and interpretations. How, for example, can the maternal figure of Medea still be considered relevant today? What meaning does she carry, and in what ways has she been reinterpreted and rewritten by literature, art, and other humanistic fields? Likewise, what is the source of the fascination still associated with the tragic figures of Ariadne and Dido, or the terror caused by monstrous beings such as the Mermaids and Medusa? How has popular culture re–appropriated them, modernizing them, and making them iconic in fantasy films like Harry Potter, in famous TV series like Game of Thrones, in horror movies, or in Disney’s animated films? Students will be able to answer these questions during the course, focusing each week on a specific myth drawn from classical Greek and Latin literature and following it through its literary and artistic developments, especially in the context of Western culture.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Raimondi, Silvia
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/18
• PosTag(s): MLL-PITAL

How did people understand human difference before modern biology or the invention of categories like ‘black’ and ‘white’? Were ancient societies ethnically pure or hostile toward other cultures? Or are race and racism not inherent to the human condition, but rather, cultural products that vary based on the needs of those in power? This First-Year Seminar tackles some of these questions by exploring constructions of race, ethnicity, and difference among people who lived around the Mediterranean Sea between 1000 BCE – 500 CE. It will introduce you to the cultural diversity of ancient Asian, African, and European societies, hone your ability to interpret primary sources both literary and visual, and survey ways of theorizing human difference across time in hopes of better preparing you for lives and careers in our interconnected world.. We will also examine the role that classical Greece and Rome played in modern racecraft, Western imperialism, even the political systems, socioeconomic structures, and architecture that surround us. This course hopes to give you a wider historical frame in which to understand race and racism, as well as the cultural politics around "classics" and questions of heritage, revealing both as dynamic and historically situated discourses that have been used to exert power, to include or exclude, and to build communities. All sources are provided in English, no prior background in classics is assumed, and there are no prerequisites beyond a willingness to work, speak, and think with an open mind.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

We will read a selection of Greek tragedies in translation and explore the visual arts that appear in, shaped, and respond to them.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Stager, Jennifer
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC

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: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Zchomelidse, Nino
• Room: Gilman 177
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): HART-ANC, HART-MED

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: Liao, Zijun
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/15
• 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: Palmer, RJ Joseph
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

The course will introduce students to major aspects of the ancient Greek civilization, with special emphasis placed upon culture, society, archaeology, literature, and philosophy.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Emphasis on ancient Greek ritual, music, religion, and society; and on cultural institutions such as symposia (drinking parties) and festivals.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 19/25
• PosTag(s): n/a

This course aims to provide an in-depth exploration of Homer’s Odyssey (in translation). We will study the poem’s roots in a tradition of ancient oral poetry, gain a fuller understanding of how it was interpreted within different historical contexts, and examine the poem’s fascination with topics such as gender, class, tales of exploration and colonization, truth and lies and identity.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria G
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 7/15
• 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: Nakajima, Keisuke
• Room: Gilman 114
• Status: Closed
• 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 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Skoutelas, Charissa Martha
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/10
• 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 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Canceled
• 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: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course, students will analyze the role of animals in ancient medicine and the Greco-Roman world as a springboard for discussing medical philosophy, ethics, and boundaries between humans and animals in antiquity and modernity. Students will learn to use critical thinking to connect how animals have shaped human lives through medicine and philosophy in antiquity to how we view animal contributions to the development of medicine today. Additionally, students will examine and interrogate how ancient theories of animality, and intelligence have been weaponized against marginalized people in medicine. Through readings, discussions, and talks from guest bioethics Hopkins professors, students will navigate bioethical issues directly related to Johns Hopkins as a premier medical institution.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Treadway, Tashi M
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/16
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

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: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This intensive Latin survey is designed for very advanced undergraduate students--normally those who have completed two semesters of Advanced Latin (AS.040.307/308)--and PhD students preparing for their Latin translation exam. In this course, the first half of a year-long sequence, we will read substantial texts of major Republican and some Augustan authors. The weekly pace is designed to inculcate greater speed and accuracy in Latin reading, and provide significant coverage of various kinds of texts. Recommended background: AS.040.307-308 or equivalent

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This CRL seeks to collect data systematically from texts of the early Roman Imperial age regarding instances of people represented as speaking in public. This semester, our aim will be to collect instances and generate data from an expanding range of texts. This data is currently housed in Excel spreadsheets. We will also be looking to build, debug, and launch a web-based interface/browser/search engine that will, for the first time, allow public access to the database, and turn it into a truly public digital humanities project. Knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin language is NOT required.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

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: Approval Required
• 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: Approval Required
• 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: Approval Required
• 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: Approval Required
• 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: Approval Required
• 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: Approval Required
• 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: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

Students in the program work under the direction of a faculty research supervisor on a substantive analysis.

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

What did it mean to be free in the premodern world? What did it mean to be a serf or enslaved? How was freedom and unfreedom experienced differently based on gender, geography, religion and space? This two-semester course will explore the social history of slavery, freedom, and ‘unfreedom,’ that is, constraints placed on individuals and groups and the structuring role of such constraints. We will consider together an array of source materials spanning law codes, personal narratives, manumission cases, chronicles, histories, and hagiography, but also including a close examination of non-written sources. How did practices of slavery and unfreedom during the Greek and Roman periods come to shape an understanding of those categories in Europe and the Islamic world by ca. 1000CE? What role did trade and the movement of people play in this transition? Are slavery and empire intimately connected? An emphasis is also given to how scholars have written about slavery, manumission, and freedom in the past and how power, difference, and ideals of freedom have been theorized over time. This seminar meets once a week. Students should be prepared to discuss course materials and will be asked to keep a reading journal as well as notes from class discussion. This is the first of a two-semester sequence. Part I: the Ancient and Medieval Period (ca. 500BCE-1000CE); Part II (to be taught in the spring of 2026): the Medieval and Early Modern World (ca. 1000-1500CE)

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lester, Anne E.
• Room:  
• Status: Canceled
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, CES-LE, CES-LSO, CES-PD

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 55
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 21/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

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 218; Maryland 114
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 2/20
• 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 218; Krieger 180
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 14/20
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

Stories entertain us, but we can also receive guidance from them, and we can tell them to impart guidance to others, to exercise influence, to make a point. This course will explore the ways that stories make their points in the genre sometimes called “fable,” in works by authors ranging from Aesop to George Saunders, from the 4th century to the present.  We’ll debate what fables actually are – Short morality tales about animals?  Portraits of exemplary figures that demonstrate how to live? - in part by reading many examples of the form and some theories of it, in part by writing fables of our own.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Cannon, Christopher; Choi, Susan
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ

This course explores the surviving “objects” of the ancient Greco-Roman world, and the histories of their excavation, organization, and preservation in museum and library collections. From ancient objects and sculptures, ancient Greek papyri, scrolls, and late-antique and medieval books, to the revival of Greek and Roman traditions in the Renaissance and Enlightenment, we will learn how these objects help shape and transform our understanding of the ancient world over two millennia, up to the formation of the great antiquities museums of the modern era. This hands-on course will take advantage of ancient objects and texts in Baltimore, at the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as the Archaeology Museum at JHU and the rare book and manuscript collections of the Sheridan Libraries at JHU.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Havens, Earle A; Michalek, Martin William
• Room: BLC 2043
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): MLL-ENGL