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.
- 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.
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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.
- 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 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 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).
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE GREEK: PROSE
INTERMDTE GREEK I: ATTIC PROSE
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or the equivalent. Selections from Attic prose.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 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
Info - 4 points
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.
- 4 points
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.
- 4 points
DICTATORSHIPS&THEIR AFTERLIVES
What does the investigation of a dictatorship entail and what are the challenges in such an endeavor? Why (and when) do particular societies turn to an examination of their non-democratic pasts? What does it mean for those who never experienced an authoritarian regime first-hand to remember it through television footage, popular culture, and family stories? This seminar examines dictatorships and the ways in which they are remembered, discussed, examined, and give rise to conflicting narratives in post-dictatorial environments. It takes as its point of departure the Greek military regime of 1967-1974, which is considered in relation to other dictatorships in South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. We will be drawing on primary materials including Amnesty International reports, film, performance art, and architectural drawings as well as the works of Hannah Arendt and Günter Grass to engage in an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which military dictatorships live on as ghosts, traumatic memories, urban warfare, litigation, and debates on the politics of comparison and the ethics of contemporary art.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
This seminar looks at the narrative and the historical context for an extraordinary event: the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander III of Macedonia, conventionally known as “Alexander the Great”. We will explore the different worlds Alexander grew out of, confronted, and affected: the old Greek world, the Persian empire, the ancient near-east (Egypt, Levant, Babylonia, Iran), and the worlds beyond, namely pre-Islamic (and pre-Silk Road) Central Asia, the Afghan borderlands, and the Indus valley. The first part of the course will establish context, before laying out a narrative framework; the second part of the course will explore a series of themes, especially the tension between military conquest, political negotiation, and social interactions. Overall, the course will serve as an exercise in historical methodology (with particular attention to ancient sources and to interpretation), an introduction to the geography and the history of the ancient world (classical and near-eastern), and the exploration of a complex testcase located at the contact point between several worlds, and at a watershed of world history.
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 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:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS
LIT SELECTIONS: ELEGY
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.
- 3 points
THE CULTURE OF DEMOCRACY
The point is to examine democracy not as a political system, but as a historical phenomenon characterized by a specific culture: a body of ideas and values, stories and myths. This culture is not homogenous; it has a variety of historical manifestations through the ages but remains nonetheless cohesive. The objective is twofold: 1) to determine which elements in democratic culture remain fundamental, no matter what form they take in various historical instances; 2) to understand that the culture of democracy is indeed not abstract and transcendental but historical, with its central impetus being the interrogation and transformation of society. Special emphasis will be placed on the crisis of democratic institutions in the era of globalization and, as specific case-study in point, the democratic failure in the Mediterranean region in light of the challenges of the assembly movements (Spain, Greece, Arab Spring) and the current migrant/refugee crisis.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
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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.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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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.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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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).
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Deborah Steiner
CULPA: 12
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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
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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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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
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
Info - 1-4 points
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:
Deborah Steiner
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points
LATIN LIT PROSE SELECTIONS
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.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Religions of the Roman World
RELIGIONS OF ROMAN WORLD
The goal of this course is to convey an important amount of knowledge on the religious history of the Roman empire focusing both on paganism, Christianity and Judaism and their interaction. We will study the religious space, the agents of cults and religions, rituals and networks and dynamics of power. The course will also face the challenge to reconsider the points of view from which to think the religious history of the Roman Empire and therefore it will be an invitation to revise our intellectual tools and questions towards an awareness to what is at stake when an object of religious debate emerges.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 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.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
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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
Multilingual Worlds: Translation, Gender
Translation, Gender, Gree
Moving between different languages and alphabets is a constitutive aspect of the diasporic experience. To remember or forget the mother tongue, to mix up two or more languages, to transcribe one writing system onto another are all modes of negotiating geographical displacement. This course introduces students to literature about and by Greeks of the diaspora in Europe, the Balkans and America over the past two centuries exploring questions of migration, translation and gender with particular attention to the look and sound of different alphabets and foreign accents – “It’s all Greek to me!” Authors include Benjamin, Broumas, Chaplin, Chow, Conan Doyle, Kafka, Kazan, Morrison, Papadiamantis, Queen, Valtinos and Venuti.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
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:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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- 2 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.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 2 points
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.
- M 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.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 4 points
The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas
COMP DIASPORAS & TRANSLAT
A seminar on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of comparative diaspora studies, drawing on the key scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community. Rather than foregrounding a single case study, the syllabus is organized around the proposition that any consideration of diaspora requires a consideration of comparative and overlapping diasporas, and as a consequence a confrontation with multilingualism, creolization and the problem of translation. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in which we will conduct an intensive workshop around the translation projects of the student participants.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
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Catullus in Context
This class considers the work of Catullus in the context of the history of Latin personal poetry.A master of multiple genres and meters, Catullus wrote poems ranging in length from two to 408 lines and in topic from love to political invective to mythological narrative and beyond. Of profound influence on subsequent Latin poetry, Catullus was also part of a vibrant literary scene in mid-first-century BCE Rome, of whose productions (with the exception of Lucretius) only fragments survive. We will read Catullus in tandem with his predecessors, his contemporaries (including notably the so-called Neoterics), and his immediate successors, in order to gain a sense of his significance and place within the development of Latin literature. The class is open to graduate students, as well as to advanced postbaccalaureate and
undergraduate students with the permission of the instructor.
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Sophocles and Troy
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with two ‘Trojan’ plays by Sophocles, his
Ajax
and
Philoctetes
, and to situate both within the very volatile period of Athenian political and cultural history to which they belonged. We will be exploring the dramas from a variety of angles, philological, cultural, political, ethical, rhetorical, and religious among them while considering the rich literary, mythological, and visual traditions from which both emerge (comparative primary readings will include portions of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Euripides, Sophocles’
Ichneutai
, and Thucydides). In addition to close readings of both texts, students will become acquainted with the relevant epic and lyric accounts on which the dramatists draw and will also consider the rich iconography surrounding the central protagonists. Beyond highlighting important commonalities and differences between these two plays, one considered ‘early’, the other ‘late’, the class will also discuss issues of staging, dramaturgy, dance and song, and we will pay particular attention to the different modalities of voice and of chorality (informed by its lyric background) within each text. While the focus will always be on the primary texts, through the assigned secondary reading students will also be introduced to a variety of different critical approaches and methodologies: among them we will be using ideas drawn from the ‘new materialism’, anthropology, the current fields of ‘sound studies’ and animal vocalism, genre-mixing, and dance theory. The innovative nature of Sophoclean music will also be highlighted, and students will be encouraged to explore the two plays’ reception and changing fortunes in a variety of media down to the present day.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah Steiner
CULPA: 12
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- 3 points