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: MTThF 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• 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: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• 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: Staff
• Room: Gilman 10
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/8
• 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: Staff
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 17/17
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH

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
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• 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: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• 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: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/12
• 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: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-RELATE

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: Open
• Seats Available: 13/15
• 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: Staff
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 17/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

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: Nakajima, Keisuke
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/16
• 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: Skoutelas, Charissa Martha
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

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: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• 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: F 11:00AM - 12:15PM, M 4:15PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
• Room: Gilman 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• 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: Wiegers, Yanneck
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/10
• 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: 16/18
• 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: Treadway, Tashi M
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/10
• 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: 5/15
• 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: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

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; Dean, Gabrielle
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/14
• PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800

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: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• 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: 3/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

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: 12/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

How did the Greeks, Romans, and other ancient Mediterranean peoples understand human difference and diversity? How did they form their senses of self in relation to others and articulate kinship and commonalities across ethnic lines? Did skin color, birthplace, language, and lineage matter in constructing social hierarchies? How did their concepts of class and citizenship, beauty and belonging, differ from ours? Did they have anything akin to modern constructions of race and racism, blackness and whiteness, the ‘west’ and the ‘rest’? If not, when and why were such ideas invented, and how was Greco-Roman culture conscripted in their support? Finally and crucially, what can we do to make “classics” today more equitable, inclusive, and accurate to the multicultural reality of the ancient Mediterranean? This First-Year Seminar examines these questions, and many more, through the literature, art, and history of ancient Greece and Rome, with forays into Egypt, Persia, Judea, and northern Europe. It will introduce you to the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean world, hone your ability to critically interpret and discuss art, literature, and scholarship, and explore how systems of categorizing human difference have historically served power. This course will give you a wider historical lens through which to understand race, racecraft, the “classics,” and “Western civilization,” revealing all to be dynamic and historically situated discourses that have been used to exert authority, to include or exclude, and to build communities. It will also build student community and comfort discussing sensitive subjects through a combination of field trips, guest lectures, movie nights, and communal meals.

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

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: 16/40
• PosTag(s): ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

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: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

In the later 19th century, as Baltimore struggled to redefine itself after the Civil War and swelled with massive immigration, the people of the city brought the ancient past into the living present of their urban space. Since 2020, a Classics Research Lab led by Prof. Emily Anderson has examined the realities of those interactions, by closely exploring the social relations surrounding a key collection of ancient material, the Peabody Sculptural Cast Collection—a now disbanded collection of plaster casts of ancient Mediterranean sculpture, founded in 1881. The lab team undertakes ongoing research concerning the people and objects that formed this collection’s urban community in Baltimore, with close interest in matters of access, discrimination and legitimacy, recovery of hidden stories and connections, and bringing to light under- or unrecognized contributions and creative work among the city’s diverse inhabitants. One of the lab’s primary aims has been the construction of a virtual exhibit that re-assembles and rethinks the collection, through a walkable 3D gallery and a series of detailed features concerning the casts’ place in the city. In Fall 2024, part of the lab's work will take us on-site in Baltimore, to directly engage with extant historical sculptural casts.

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Greenhouse 000
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH, ARCH-RELATE

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: 7/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN

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; Yang, Yuanzhang
• Room: Shaffer 2
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/30
• PosTag(s): n/a

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: 1/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ANCIEN