Reflection on Research

This seminar provides an opportunity for students to reflect on how their research project relates to their previous coursework in Classics and in general education, to collaborate with peers in learning by sharing progress as they complete their projects and offering suggestions to one another for meeting challenges, and to communicate the final results of their projects orally and/or visually to each other and departmental faculty in the setting of a year-end research symposium.

Roman Voices

Various voices of ancient Roman literature in translation, including selections from the poetry of Lucretius, elegiac and lyric poets, Vergil, Ovid, and Juvenal; from the historians Livy and Tacitus; and from the prose works of Petronius and Apuleius. Their meaning and wisdom for later generations. (Gen.Ed. AL)

Greek Archaeology

Archaeology of ancient Greece in Minoan-Mycenaean, Geometric, Archaic, and Classical Periods. Methods, progress, and ethics of archaeological research. Emphasis on remains displaying the architectural and urbanistic development of major cities and sanctuaries, and on their contribution to western civilization. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Herodotus & the Persian Wars

Our goal is to read all of Herodotus? Histories (in English) with particular attention to themes such as historical inquiry, democracy, and ethnographic and cultural differences among peoples of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. We will spend some time on Herodotus? account of the Persian Wars and examine how his major themes inform his account. We will focus on the origins of the conflict between Western culture and that of the Near East, mainly the wars between the Persians and the Greeks. We will also pay attention to Herodotus' writing style and methodology.
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