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.
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Instructor:
Jazmin Novoa Lara
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Instructor:
Ayelet G Wenger
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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.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
Info - 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.
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Instructor:
Marissa K Swan
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Instructor:
Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie
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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 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Umberto Verdura
Info - 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).
INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN
Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 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.
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Instructor:
Chrysanthe Filippardos
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INTERMEDIATE LATIN I
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 & UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Koudounis
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Instructor:
Brett L Stine
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INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
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.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
AUGUSTAN POETRY
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Celebrity and Politics in the Greek and
Ancient Celebrity & Polit
It might come as a surprise, but the ancients were obsessed with superficiality. Image, style, reputation, gossip, and slander: all were fundamental parts of the cultural and political life of ancient society, particularly in the context of the city. In this class we will investigate and historicize the phenomenon of celebrity in the Ancient World - from Classical Athens to the Roman Empire - and in particular the relationship between democratic institutions, popular politics, and the outsized role played by political and cultural celebrities in ancient society. Although celebrity is often viewed as a phenomenon projected from above on a passive audience, we will approach it as a dynamic of negotiation and contestation involving equally powerful participants: public(s) and celebrities. We will apply a diverse range of critical methodologies in approaching these questions, and we will likewise read broadly from ancient authors both well known (Thucydides, Plato, Aristophanes) and less commonly approached in undergraduate courses (from the celebrity orator Dio Chrysostom and the enigmatic satirist Lucian of Samosata to the 3rd century dream interpreter Artemidorus). A general familiarity with the broad strokes of ancient history is helpful, but not required. There are no prerequisites.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Geoffrey Harmsworth
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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.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 3 points
SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT
Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 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.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Mental health in Literature from antiqui
This seminar explores the relationship between literature, culture, and mental health. It pays particular emphasis to the
poetics
of emotions structuring them around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and the concept of hope. During the course of the semester, we will discuss a variety of content that explores issues of race, socioeconomic status, political beliefs, abilities/disabilities, gender expressions, sexualities, and stages of life as they are connected to mental illness and healing. Emotions are anchored in the physical body through the way in which our bodily sensors help us understand the reality that we live in. By feeling backwards and thinking forwards, we will ask a number of important questions relating to literature and mental health, and will trace how human experiences are first made into language, then into science, and finally into action.
The course surveys texts from Homer, Ovid, Aeschylus and Sophocles to Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, C.P. Cavafy, Dinos Christianopoulos, Margarita Karapanou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina Gogou etc., and the work of artists such as Toshio Matsumoto, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Anohni.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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HELLENISM&THE TOPOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION
HELLENISM&THE TOPOGRAPHIC IMAG
This course examines the way particular spaces—cultural, urban, literary—serve as sites for the production and reproduction of cultural and political imaginaries. It places particular emphasis on the themes of the polis, the city, and the nation-state as well as on spatial representations of and responses to notions of the Hellenic across time. Students will consider a wide range of texts as spaces—complex sites constituted and complicated by a multiplicity of languages—and ask: To what extent is meaning and cultural identity, sitespecific? How central is the classical past in Western imagination? How have great metropolises such as Paris, Istanbul, and New York fashioned themselves in response to the allure of the classical and the advent of modern Greece? How has Greece as a specific site shaped the study of the Cold War, dictatorships, and crisis?
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
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.
- F 2:40 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
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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.
- F 2:40 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Darcy Krasne
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
THE MAJOR SEMINAR
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 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).
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.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
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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.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR
Designed for students writing a senior thesis or doing advanced research on Greek or Greek Diaspora topics.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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SELECTNS FROM GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: GREK V1201 and V1202, or their equivalent. Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hanna Golab
Info - 3 points
Retranslation: Worlding C. P. Cavafy
Focusing on a canonical author is an immensely productive way to explore translation research and practice. The works of Sappho, Dante, Rilke, Césaire or Cavafy raise the question of reception in relation to many different critical approaches and illustrate many different strategies of translation and adaptation. The very issue of intertextuality that challenged the validity of author-centered courses after Roland Barthes’s proclamation of the death of the author reinstates it if we are willing to engage the oeuvre as an on-going interpretive project. By examining the poetry of the Greek Diaspora poet C. P. Cavafy in all its permutations (as criticism, translation, adaptation), the Cavafy case becomes an experimental ground for thinking about how a canonical author can open up our theories and practices of translation. For the final project students will choose a work by an author with a considerable body of critical work and translations and, following the example of Cavafy and his translators, come up with their own retranslations. Among the materials considered are commentary by E. M. Forster, C. M. Bowra, and Roman Jakobson, translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, James Merrill, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Daniel Mendelsohn, poems by W.H. Auden, Lawrence Durrell, and Joseph Brodsky, and visual art by David Hockney, and Duane Michals.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
SUPERVISED IND 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.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
DIRECTED READINGS
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
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Instructor:
John T Ma
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 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.
Proseminar
Proseminar is designed to offer beginning MA and PhD students an overview of (i) the major sub-disciplinary areas that are gathered under the umbrella term ‘classics’, making it a fundamentally interdisciplinary field of enquiry, and (ii) the diverse methodologies that are standardly applied in many subfields of classical research and publication.
- F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
John T Ma
CULPA: 4 Info - 1 points
Diagnostic Readings in Greek Language
Diagnostic Readings Greek
This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program.
Diagnostic Readings in Latin Language
This course is designed to provide incoming first-year graduate students in Classics with a small reading class that will allow a faculty instructor to assess students’ needs before they advance further into the graduate program.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 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.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 4 points
IMAGE OF THE BOOK IN ROMAN LIT
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Aristotle s Politics
This seminar explores a set of interrelated ideas, puzzles, problems, and assumptions that Aristotle’s
Politics
presents concerning human flourishing, community, and political organization. It seeks to historically situate Aristotelian conceptions of the
polis
and of citizens (
politai
), both as products of actual circumstances in Hellenic city-states during the classical period and as responses to theoretical speculations by contemporaries such as Plato. Its overarching goal is to examine in detail Aristotle’s conception of the
polis
as the exclusive setting in which individual human beings can achieve their full potential as deliberators on matters of importance who exercise authority over others and are simultaneously subject to the determinations of others. We account for the assumptions and prejudgments that shape and limit his conceptions of who is able to participate in the activities of deliberation that are critical to the mature flourishing of individuals as well as the functioning of the
polis
. As we consider the emphases Aristotle places on political and social significance of economic factors and his interest in the individual household as a crucial building block of the
polis
, we investigate
Politics
’
sustained interest in the means by which senses of community, trust, “friendship,” and common interest are either fostered or inhibited, and its recurrent concerns for phenomena of factionalism, division, and distrust that render political communities dysfunctional. The seminar aspires to afford opportunities for thinking critically about Aristotle’s
Politics
and its legacy, and for considering the paths it might open up for creative engagement with the challenges we face today.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 3 points