ELEMENTARY GREEK I

For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar with reading and writing of simple Attic prose.

• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brett L Stine
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• Instructor: Geoffrey Harmsworth
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY MODERN GREEK I

This is the first semester of a year-long course designed for students wishing to learn Greek as it is written and spoken in Greece today. As well as learning the skills necessary to read texts of moderate difficulty and converse on a wide range of topics, students explore Modern Greeces cultural landscape from parea to poetry to politics. Special attention will be paid to Greek New York. How do our, American, Greek-American definitions of language and culture differ from their, Greek ones?

• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN I

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.

• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie
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• Instructor: Erin J Petrella
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Koudounis
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• 4 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).

• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob C Haagenson
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• 4 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE

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• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Valeria Spacciante
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE GREEK: PROSE

Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or the equivalent. Selections from Attic prose.

• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David M Ratzan
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK I

Prerequisites: GRKM UN1101 and GRKM UN1102 or the equivalent. Corequisites: GRKM UN2111 This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the basic grammar and syntax of modern Greek language and can communicate at an elementary level. Using films, newspapers, and popular songs, students engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film and book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection of second year textbooks.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE LATIN I

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101-UN1102, or LATN UN1121, or the equivalent. Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien Van Geel
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE LATIN II

This course condenses the second semester of Intermediate Latin (2102) into a sixweek summer session. Its goal is to further develop reading and interpretation skills in Classical Latin through engagement with Roman authors while continuing to review the essentials of Latin grammar. In the first half of the course, we cover selections from Ovid’s epic poem, the Metamorphoses; in the second, we take up the prose writings of Seneca the Younger including selections from his Epistulae Morales and the philosophical dialogue De vita beata. Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Marissa K Hicks
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• 4 points

GREECE TODAY: LANG, LIT

Prerequisites: GRKM un2102 This course builds on the elements of the language acquired in GRKM1101 through 2102, but new students may place into it, after special arrangement with the instructor. It introduces the students to a number of authentic multimodal materials drawn from a range of sources which include films, literary texts, media, music etc. in order to better understand Greece’s current cultural, socio-economic, and political landscape. In doing so, it aims to foster transcultural understanding and intercultural competence, while further developing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Topics of discussion include language, gender equality, youth unemployment, education, queer identities, refugees, and the multilayered aspects of the crisis.Pre-requisite for this class: GRKM 2102 or placement test. Instructor’s permission required if the students have not taken GRKM2102 or equivalent.

• MW 2:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• 3 points

AUGUSTAN POETRY

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructors permission. This course offers an introduction to medieval Latin literature in conversation with its two most important traditions, classical literature and early Christian culture.  Illustrative passages from the principal authors and genres of the Latin Middle Ages will be read, including Augustine and biblical exegesis; Ambrose and poetry; Bede and history and hagiography; Abelard and Heloise and the 12th century Renaissance. The course is suitable both for students of Latin and of the Middle Ages.

• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Queer Classics: Desire, Embodiment, Back

While the word ‘homosexual’ didn’t appear in print until 1891, Ancient Greece and Rome were full of queers, people whose sexual behavior, desires, gender, and/or other characteristics were at odds with dominant norms. This course traces ancient queerness across three modules. First, we discuss primary evidence and scholarly attitudes towards homoeroticism and gender variance in antiquity. Second, we explore the reception of ancient homoeroticism at the turn of the 20th century, a period that witnessed an explosion of engagement with ancient queer icons. Third, we trace the transformations of ancient queer myths and imagery in contemporary popular culture, engaging with film, novels, Zines, and social media. No prerequisites.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Catherine J Lambert
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• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

SELECTIONS FR GREEK LIT: PROSE

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. The topic that will be taught in Fall 2018 is Plato.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS I

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

THESSALONIKI DOWN THE AGES

This course will explore the fascinatingly layered and multicultural history of Thessaloniki, the great city of Northern Greece and the Balkans. We will examine texts, archaeological evidence, literature, songs, and movies and in general the materialities of the city. We will examine this material from the 6th century BCE down to the the 21st cent. CE. We will notably think about the problems of history, identity, and cultural interaction in reaction to recent work such as Mark Mazower’s well know Salonica, City of Ghosts 2004.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

WRITING RESISTANCE

Set within a transnational and transdisciplinary feminist framework,
Writing Resistance
will unfold and examine the ways traumatic, lived experiences of gender and structural violence, systematic oppression and precarity, incarceration, racism, and colonialism, have been silenced or submerged in canonical writing and official history making. As an antidote, we will attempt a “queering” of this patriarchal and “colonial archive” (Stoler), by shedding light and focusing on diverse forms of writing, autobiographies and biomythographies, poetry and fiction, and theoretical readings that are either produced by or centered on the lived experiences, psyches and bodies, of women, people of color, dissidents and incarcerated people, queer, transgender, and non-binary individuals, refugees and other historically and systematically marginalized voices and identities. Within the context of what has often been approached as “minor literature” (Deleuze and Guattari), the fragmented truths, interrupted stories, and the “descent to the everyday” (Das), will reveal not only traumas, suffering, and alienation, but also what Veena Das approaches as “poisonous knowledge,” where the gendered, queer, racialized, and political body, solidarity, and silence, return as resistance, reclaiming voices, visibility, and authorship.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Stefatos
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• 3 points

POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

POST-BACCALAUREATE SEMINAR

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in classics and classical studies. The topic changes from year to year, but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

THE MAJOR SEMINAR

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

DIRCTD READING-ANCIENT STUDIES

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. Program of readings in some aspect of ancient studies, supervised by an appropriate faculty member chosen from the departments offering courses in the program in Ancient Studies. Evaluation by a series of essays, one long paper, or oral or written examination(s).

• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Greek literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Designed for undergraduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.

• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Argyro Nicolaou
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• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1-4 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS IN LATIN LIT

SUPERVSD RESRCH IN LATIN LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of reading in Latin literature, to be tested by a series of short papers, one long paper, or an oral or written examination.

• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

DIRCTD RSRCH-ANCIENT STUDIES I

Program of research in ancient studies under the direction of an advisor associated with the program, resulting in a research paper. Outline and bibliography must be approved by the director of undergraduate studies before credit will be awarded for ANCS V3995.

• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RSRCH IN GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Greek literature. Research paper required.

• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

Designed for students writing a senior thesis or doing advanced research on Greek or Greek Diaspora topics.

• 1-4 points

SUPERVISED RSRCH IN LATIN LIT

Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Latin literature. Research paper required.

• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS

SELECTIONS FR LATIN LIT-PROSE

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher. Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

LAT LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS THROUGH GREEK FILM

This course explores issues of memory and trauma, public history and testimony, colonialism and biopolitics, neoliberalism and governmentality, and crisis and kinship, all through the medium of Greek film. It brings the Greek cinema canon (Angelopoulos, Gavras, Cacoyiannis, Koundouros, et al.) into conversation with the work of contemporary artists, documentary filmmakers, and the recent ;weird wave; and asks: what kind of lens does film offer onto the study of a societys history and contemporary predicament? The viewing and discussion of films is facilitated through a consideration of a wide range of materials, including novels, criticism, archival footage, and interviews with directors. The course does not assume any background knowledge and all films will have English subtitles. An additional 1-credit bilingual option (meeting once per week at a time TBD) is offered for students who wish to read, view, and discuss materials in Greek.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Argyro Nicolaou
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• 3-4 points

Reading Rome in the Middle Ages and Beyo

Reading Rome in Middle Ag

This course will examine the ways Rome has been described and imagined from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, when the imperial city was transformed into a Christian capital, renowned for its monuments and its complex historical significance. The city became the goal of pilgrims, visitors, artists and scholars, but also the subject of criticisms and satire, and continued to be so into the modern age. The great German poet Goethe wrote at length in his
Italian Journey (1786-1787)
about his enchantment with the monuments of  “the First City of the world
sic
” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey (1786-1788),
trans. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer 1962, p. 115), while at the same time he described the living contemporary city and its inhabitants through stereotypical and ethnic preconceptions. His near-contemporary  Edward Gibbon declared that he was inspired to write his great work
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
as he contrasted the city’s classical ruins and  the Christian Church of the Ara Coeli, once a pagan temple:  “It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.”
Memoirs of My Life
(1796). This course is not meant to be a history of post-classical Rome.  Rather, we will consider and discuss a selection of interdisciplinary texts, written, visual and material (buildings, artistic works in various forms, including films, and other physical evidence) that present the transformation of old Rome into new Rome, but which also shaped the varied images of Rome in the Middle Ages, and beyond, even in modern times, as illustrated by the films included in the syllabus.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Friendship from Antiquity to the Present

At all times and in all places, human beings have established and cherished friendships, that is,
affectionate bonds with individuals to whom they were not linked by blood relationship or erotic
love. But what is friendship? This and related questions are asked in some of our earliest
literature and remain relevant today. What is a friend? Can I really trust my friend? How many
friends can or should a person have? And is it ever necessary to sever a friendship or "unfriend"
a person?
In this course, we will examine how philosophical writers of Greco-Roman
antiquity—notably, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero—address these issues and how their discourse on
friendship resonates through western thought, including in such writers as Aquinas, Montaigne,
Bacon, Kant, and Emerson. We will put these theoretical approaches in dialogue with depictions
of and reflections on friendship in letters, poetry, novels, plays, children's literature, and film,
ranging from the second millennium BCE Epic of Gilgamesh to Elena Ferrante's 2012 bestseller
My Brilliant Friend. These sometimes complementary and sometimes jarring juxtapositions will
lead us to consider friendship both in its historically and culturally conditioned and in its
universal aspects, and will, with any luck, inspire a new appreciation of this profoundly human
experience.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

All supervisors will be Columbia faculty who hold a PhD. Students are responsible for identifying their own supervisor and it is at the discretion of faculty whether they accept to supervise independent research. Projects must be focused on Hellenic Studies and can be approached from any disciplinary background. Students are expected to develop their own reading list in consultation with their supervisor. In addition to completing assigned readings, the student must also write a Hellenic studies paper of 20 pages. Projects other than a research paper will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Hellenic Studies is an interdisciplinary field that revolves around two main axes: space and time. Its teaching and research are focused on the study of post-classical Greece in various fields: Language, Literature, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art, Archaeology, and in various periods: Late Antique, Medieval, Byzantine, Modern Greek etc. Therefore, the range of topics that are acceptable as a Hellenic Studies seminar paper is broad. It is upon each supervisor to discuss the specific topic with the student. The work submitted for this independent study course must be different from the work a student submits in other courses, including the Hellenic Studies Senior Research Seminar.

• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• Instructor: Dimitris Antoniou
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• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Stathis Gourgouris
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Multilingual America: Translation, Migra

This course introduces students to the rich tradition of literature about and by Greeks in America over the past two centuries exploring questions of multilingualism, translation, migration and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” To what extent can migration be understood as translation and vice versa? How might debates in Diaspora and Translation Studies inform each other and how might both, in turn, elucidate the writing of and about Greeks and other ethnic minorities, especially women? Authors include Olga Broumas, Elia Kazan, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Irini Spanidou, Ellery Queen, Eleni Sikelianos and Thanasis Valtinos as well as performance artists such as Diamanda Galas. Theoretical and comparative texts include works by Walter Benjamin, Rey Chow, Jacques Derrida, Xiaolu Guo, Eva Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Toni Morrison, Vicente Rafael, and Lawrence Venuti, as well as films such as
The Immigrant
and
The Wizard of Oz
. No knowledge of Greek is necessary, although an extra-credit directed reading is open to those wishing to read texts in Greek.

• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen R Van Dyck
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

The Greek Revolution of 1821

2021 marks the bicentenary of the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire—an event that captured European and American popular imagination and led to the founding of the Greek nation. The Greek Revolution became a site for enduring discussion of much larger questions about the international order, democracy, empire, nationalism, collective rights, slavery, monumentality, and the contemporary place of classical Hellas. In this seminar Hellenic Studies faculty and guest speakers take 1821 and its enduring legacies as a vantage point to examine the use of primary sources (including texts, songs, paintings, and films) across different disciplines (history, anthropology, comparative literature, architecture, political science, and queer studies), and reflect on the nature of evidence and how it features in public discourse and contemporary cultural politics. Lectures by Dimitris Antoniou, Stathis Gourgouris, Nikolas P. Kakkoufa, Paraskevi Martzavou, Mark Mazower, Neni Panourgiá, Karen Van Dyck, Konstantina Zanou, and others.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• 3 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Marcus Folch
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Alan Ross
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

MA THESIS

This course will enable students to complete a research study of considerable length that will (i) enable them to explore a given area of research in substantive detail; (ii) put them on the path to true competence as independent researchers; and (iii) provide those who go on to apply to PhD programs with a substantial writing sample that shows off their technical abilities to the best advantage.

• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

The Graduate Research Colloquium is a forum that offers two types of research seminars over the course of the semester. In the first, formerly the Graduate Colloquium, up to six outside speakers are invited by the graduate organizers to present research papers to an audience of graduates, faculty and others interested within the larger NYC Classics community, and afterwards to engage in discussion. The second is a Work-in-Progress seminar in which Columbia Classics graduate students present their research to their graduate peers in whatever format they deem most conducive to conveying their research to their audience and receiving feedback. The audience for these eight seminars is restricted to graduate students, the instructor who presides over the course, and any faculty the graduate student presenters choose should choose to invite. At least one semester of the Graduate Research Colloquium is required for MAO students and PhD students must attend the course in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their first year.

• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 2 points

ELEMENTS OF GREEK PROSE STYLE

Prerequisites: at least four terms of Greek, or the equivalent. An intensive review of Greek syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Attic Greek.

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

Literary Theory and Ancient Literature

Literary Theory & Ancient

This course is designed as an exposure to central approaches in modern literary theory that center on the body and that have been influential in scholarship on ancient Greek and Latin literature. It explores the centrality of bodily imagery as grounding for theoretical concepts from various prospects, including questions of whose body gets theorized (i.e., inflections of race, gender, class, etc.) and how ancient and modern thinkers theorize the body in performance. It addresses a perceived need in the department as well as the field to foster continued engagement with questions of methodology that do not merely treat philological or historical techniques as neutral and transparent. The course will analyze some dominant theoretical trends, explore their backgrounds, and consider why literary theorists so often engage with ancient authors to think with the body. Each component will extend over three or four classes and address a set of ancient and modern authors through readings of primary texts and conceptual / contextual backgrounds.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Plautus and Petronius: on the limits of

This course will consider two authors whose work is disparate in medium, genre, and time period. The two have some things in common, however, in particular that their work has resisted categorization as either satirical (in a modern rather than ancient sense) or not. We will first focus on Plautus’
Truculentus
– in complement and contrast with some of his other plays – which has long baffled scholars but has come to be understood as “satire” rather than pure comedy. We will investigate this claim and then turn to Petronius’
Satyricon
to ask many of the same questions. Much of the “satirical” designation of Petronius’ work has relied heavily on the representation of Trimalchio and his circle. We will, therefore, focus particularly on the (considerably less studied) parts of the text before and after the famous Cena sequence, in order to see whether and, if so, how far, its description as satirical holds up.

• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points