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This course introduces students to ancient Greek language and culture. Students master Greek vocabulary, grammar, and syntax by reading passages closely adapted from famous Greek authors such as Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. Students will also learn about Greek cities and the history, geography, and archaeology of Greece and the ancient Mediterranean. 

Students will deepen their understanding and appreciation of ancient Greek language and culture. Readings will consist of unadapted passages or whole plays from one or more of the ancient tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Students will explore a variety of topics such as representations of power and powerlessness, audience responses to tragedy, theater as a forum for grappling with contemporary concerns, and theater in the context of Athenian democracy and empire.

A survey of the art and archaeology of ancient Rome, beginning with its Etruscan origins, and focusing on the Republican and Imperial periods and the transition to the early ChrIstian era. Statues, paintings, pottery, jewelry, temples, aqueducts, houses, forums, and town planning will be discussed in relation to the culture that produced them. The course will explore Greek influence on Roman art and Roman influence on later art and architecture.

This course investigates television and film productions of ancient Greek and Roman history, myth, and literature with particular attention to the appropriation and depiction of Ancient Roman, Greek, and Macedonian culture in different national cinemas, including Japan, China, India, Columbia, Egypt, the U.S., and Europe. We examine works from the earliest days of cinema to the present, with special attention to ancient world stories on screen from 2000 onward. We will study modern visual narratives in conjunction with ancient source material and examine how ancient literature, themes, or myths are adapted to their cultural time and place.