Penguin - Department of Classics

Winter Courses 2007
1-5-07
Classics 36 – Ancient Epic Narrative
Dr. Gallucci, TR 6:30-7:45 pm, IV Theater 2
Classics 36- Honors Section: W 12-12:50, HSSB 4065
Description: Students and instructor in this course will read and analyze the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer. We will
attempt to reach an understanding of the epics through an examination of their historical, social and literary contexts,
the interplay between structure and meaning and the effects of literary allusion. We will explore the “divine machinery”
of epic, the relationship of men and gods, and motivations of the heroic figures and will discuss ancient modes of narration
in general, simile, and other forms of ornament or illumination, and ancient modes of argument (praise, blame, proof,
rebuttal, consolation, exhortation, etc.) Mid-term; final; optional paper; no knowledge of Greek or Latin required.
Texts:
The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. by Sandars (Penguin)
Homer’s Iliad, Stanley Lombardo (Hackett)
Homer, Odyssey, tr. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett)
Vergil, The Aeneid, trans. by S. Lind (Indiana University Press)
Classics 37-Greek Literature in Translation
Dr. Gallucci, TR 5-6:15 pm, IV Theater 2
Classics 37-Honors Section: F 12-12:50, HSSB 4065
Description: Reading and lecture survey of the principal Greek writers.
Texts:
Homer, Odyssey, tr. Stanley Lombardo, (Hackett)
Classics in Translation, Vol. I, Paul MacKendrick and Herbert Howe (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, The Archarnians, The Clouds, Alan H. Sommerstein (Penguin)
Classics 40 - Mythology
Professor Athanassakis, MWF 9-9:50 + 1 discussion section, IV Theater I
Description: An overview of the major Greek myths while deepening students’ familiarity with the mythological
dimensions of the Iliad and Odyssey. Attention will regularly be paid to the historical, social and cultural context
of Greek myths as well as problems of interpretation.
Texts:
Homer, The Iliad, Richmond Lattimore (Univ. of Chicago)
Homer, The Odyssey, Richmond Lattimore (Harper/Collins)
Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, tr. A. Athanassakis (Johns Hopkins)
The Homeric Hymns, tr. A. Athanassakis (Johns Hopkins)
Dictionary of Classical Myth, J.E. Zimmerman (Bantam)
Classics 50 – Intro to Classical Archaeology
Professor Erickson, MWF 11-11:50, Buchanan 1930
Description: Examines the techniques and methods of classical archaeology as revealed through an examination of
the major monuments and artifacts of the Greco-Roman world from prehistory to the Late Empire.
Texts:
Greek Art and Archaelogy, Pedley (Pearson)
Mute Stones Speak, MacKendrick (Norton)
Pompeii, Harris (Random)
Classics 100A – Greek Civilization

Dr. Gallucci, MWF, 1-1:50, HSSB 1174
Description: Introduction to the various aspects of Greek civilization such as art, education, daily life, festivals,
law, religion, science and sports. Slides and film will supplement the lectures.
Texts:
Greek People, Robert Kebric (McGraw Hill)
Thucydides, Lattimore (Hackett)
Sophocles, Three Theban Plays, tr. Fagles (Penguin)
Lysistrata and Other Plays, Sommerstein (Penguin)
Classics 130 - Comedy
Professor Dutsch, MWF 9-9:50, HSSB 1174
Description: The comic playwrights, such as Aristophanes and Plautus, and satirists, such as Lucian and Juvenal, in
English translation.
Texts:
Aristophanes: Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds, Jeffrey Henderson, (Focus Classical Library) (pbk)
Plautus & Terence, Five Comedies (Hackett)
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature, Kirk Freudenburg
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) (pbk)
Classics 180B: The Children of Dionysus -- Greek Tragedy and Western Theatre (Interfaces in Classical
Civilization)
Professor Dunn, T 2-4:50, HSSB 3024
Description: Specialized study in Classical Civilization addressing the influence or reception of Classical culture, or
the meeting and competition of cultures. We shall study influential Greek tragedies and their adaptations by
European and American playwrights, exploring the meaningful contexts (aesthetic, cultural, political, etc.) for these
dramas.
For Classical Civilization majors. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Texts/Readings:
Aeschylus I, tr. R. Lattimore (Chicago)
Euripides I, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)
Eugene O’Neill, Three Plays (Vintage)
Jean Anouilh, Medea (xerox)
Additional readings on reserve
Classics 212 – History of Greek and Latin Literature
Professor Dunn, Coordinator, R 3-4:50, HSSB 4065
Week 1. Professor Dutch: Juvenal, Martial
Readings: A packet of materials.
Weeks 2-3: Professor Dunn: Greek Tragedy I and Week 4. Professor Dunn: Greek Comedy
Texts:
Aeschylus, Oresteia (Univ. of Chicago)
Sophocles I, Three Tragedies (Univ. of Chicago)
Euripides, Ten Plays (Penguin)
Aristophanes, Four Plays by Aristophanes (Penguin)
Week 5. Professor Dutsch: Latin Comedy
Readings: A packet of materials.
Week 6: Professor Shelton: Seneca
Texts:

Seneca, Tragedies, Vol. 1, D. Slavitt (Johns Hopkins)
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Robin Cambell (Penguin)
Week 7. Professor Renehan: Hippocratics:
Text and description:
HIPPOCRATES AND THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS
Required text: Hippocratic Writings. Edited with an introduction by G.E.R.Lloyd (Penguin)
Read in Lloyd the introduction and the following treatises: Oath; Tradition in Medicine (= On Ancient Medicine);
Epidemics I and III; Airs, Water, Places; The Sacred Disease. The standard work on Hippocrates is now Jacques
Jouanna, Hippocrates (English translation, 1999). The chapter on “Greek Medicine as Paideia” in Werner Jaeger,
Paideia (vol. III, pp. 3-45) is still well worth reading. Read also Vivian Nutton’s concise account s.v. ‘Hippocrates’ in
the OCD, 3 rd edition. Note also that there are now eight volumes of Hippocratic writings in the Loeb series.
Week 8: Professor Tsouna: Plato.
Text:
The Trial And Death Of Socrates (Third Edition), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, death scene from Phaedo
Translated by G. M. A. Grube; Revised by John M. Cooper (ppr) (Hackett)
Week 9: Professor Renehan: Aristotle:
Text and description:
Recommended text: Introduction to Aristotle Edited by Richard McKeon (Modern Library paperback)
Read the OCD, 2 nd and 3 rd editions s.v. ‘Aristotle’. The recommended text (McKeon) is obviously too much to read in
one week; even substantial portions thereof are beyond mortal reach in that time. The book is recommended as a
good and cheap, and extensive, selection of Aristotle’s works handy to have in the long term. It includes, among
other things, a number of the most important works complete. You are not obligated to purchase it but you may
find it useful to own. In general, the most scholarly translation of the omnia opera is the Oxford series; this is the
version used by McKeon.
What to read? Let us attempt:
De Anima, Books I-II, up to II.5
Parts of Animals, I.5
Historia Animalium, Excerpts in McK. (pp. 633-640)
Metaphysics, XII.7
Eth.Nic., X.6-8
Politics I.1-6
This is a mere tasting of Aristotle. I understand that, even so, it may be a bit much for a week (in content, if not in
amount). We will do what we can and be happy.
Classics 232- Seminar in Cultural Studies: Klio polytropos. The Many Faces of the Past in Ancient Greece
Professor Grethlein, W 2-4:50, HSSB 4065
Description: A research seminar on commemorative genres in Ancient Greece. While the first part is devoted to
memory in epic poetry, elegy, tragedy, oratory and epinicean poetry, the second part deals with the rise of Greek
historiography (Herodotus and Thucydides). The comparison of the different genres will show crucial differences
depending on generic conventions and performative contexts, but also a common ground that distinguishes ancient
memory from modern concepts of history. The focus on memory provides an interesting way of viewing both ancient
literature and culture.
There will be brief student presentations, but the seminar will centre on the discussion of exemplary texts (the
readings will be made available on the reserve shelf of the Classics Reading Room). One brief presentation, one
seminar paper, no final exam.
Text: A packet of readings
Greek 2 – Elementary Greek

Mr. Souther, MTWRF, 2-2:50, HSSB 1214
Description: A continuation of Greek 1, introducing students to the fundamentals of classical Greek. The learning
of grammar, syntax and vocabulary is enlivened with readings from ancient authors that help to familiarize
students with Greek culture, history and literature. Evaluation based on regular quizzes, one midterm, and final
exam.
Text:
New Intro to Greek, Third Edition, Chase and Phillips (Harvard)
Greek 12 – Modern Greek
Dr. Skapoulli, MTWRF 2-2:50, HSSB 1236
Description: Greek 12 is the second in a three-course sequence introducing students to the fundamentals of
reading, writing, and speaking Modern Greek. Readings from Modern Greek authors supplement the textbook.
Evaluation based on regular quizzes, oral and written assignments, one midterm, and final exam.
Text/tapes:
Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture
Greek Today Workbook
Editors: Bien; Gondicas; Rassias; Karanika; Yiannakou-Bien.
Greek 101 – Introduction to Greek Poetry
Professor Renehan, MWF 12-12:50, HSSB 1228
Description: The course will introduce students to Homeric grammar, diction and meter, as well as some major
themes of the Iliad and Greek myth, through a close reading of Book 1: the outbreak of the quarrel between
Agamemnon and Achilles.
Text:
Homer, Iliad, Book 24 (Cambridge)
Greek 142/242 – Plato
Professor Renehan, WF 10-11:20, HSSB 4065
Description: Reading of one or several Platonic dialogues from the early or middle period (Lachas, Protagoras,
Phaedo, Gorgias, Symposium), both as masterpieces of Greek literature and as philosophical dialogues.
Texts:
Plato, Opera, Volume 3 (Oxford)
Platonis, Protagoras, Adam (Univ. of Michigan)
Greek 151/251: Euripides, Medea
Professor Dunn, TR 9:30-10:50, HSSB 4065
Description: Reading, translation and discussion of a complete tragedy of Euripides, in this case Medea, with
attention to language, meter, staging, tragic themes and conventions, and the cultural context of Athenian drama.
Text/readings:
Euripides, Medea, ed. D. Mastronarde (Cambridge)
Additional readings on reserve
Latin 2 – Elementary Latin
Section 1: Professor Dutsch, MTWRF 10-10:50, HSSB 4202
Section 2: Mr. Hu, MTWRF 1-1:50, Ellison 2816

Description: This is a continuation of Latin 1, the second in a three-quarter sequence. It acquaints the student
with the principal forms and structures of Latin. Our focus for this quarter will be threefold: first, on increasing
your fluency in Latin through reading and close examination of grammar and syntax; second, on beginning to read
longer passages of Latin; and third, on learning more about the culture, especially on the literature of the Romans.
Texts:
For both sections:
Wheelock’s Latin (Harper)
Wheelock’s Latin Workbook (Harper)
Thirty-Eight Latin Stories, Groton and May (Bolchazy)
English Grammar for Students of Latin, Goldman and Szymanski (Olivia Hill)
Latin 101 – Introduction to Latin Poetry
Professor Erickson, MWF 9-9:50, HSSB 3202
Description: This course immerses students in a full term of original Latin poetry, by reading selections from
Catullus. Students will increase their Latin reading capacity (including sight-reading), sharpen their command of
grammar, and learn about Roman poetic conventions and society. We will consider the meter of the poems,
Hellenistic thematic precedents, and the conception of romantic love in Late Republican Rome.
Texts:
Students’ Catullus, Garrison (Univ. of Oklahoma)
New Latin Grammar, Bennett (Bolchazy)
Latin 120/220 - Sallust
Professor Hahn, TR 12:30-1:50, HSSB 4065
Description: Study of one of the extant works of Rome's first great historian: the Bellum Catilinae or the Bellum
Iugurthinum. Translation; discussion of philological, stylistic, literary and historical points.
Texts:
Callusti Crispi (Oxford)
Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, Ramsey (Oxford)
Latin 135/235- Vergil
Professor Lindheim, TR 11-12:20, HSSB 4065
Description: Reading, translation, and discussion of style and meter of Vergil's epic poem Aeneid, as well as his
Georgics and Eclogues.
Texts:
Vergil, Opera (Oxford)
Virgil, Aeneid I-VI (IPM)
Virgil, Aeneid, VII-XII (IPM)
Latin 210B-Prose Composition
Professor Hahn, T 3-4:50, HSSB 4065
Description: Study of classical prose syntax and style. Conversion of English sentences into correct Latin.
Weekly translation assignments.
Texts:
New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough (Melissa Media/Caratzas)
Bradley’s Arnold, J.E. Mountford (Bolchazy-Carducci)
New Latin Syntax, Woodcock (Bristol Classical Press)
Other Departments: Winter 2007

Env S 146 – Animals in Human Society, Professor Shelton, TR 3:30-4:45, NH 1111