ELEMENTARY LATIN I
For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.
- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 4 points
ELEMENTARY GREEK II
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101 or the equivalent, or the instructor or the director of undergraduate studies permission. Continuation of grammar study begun in GREK UN1101; selections from Attic prose.
- MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 4 points
ELEMENT. MODERN GREEK II
Prerequisites: GRKM UN1101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN1101. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture. Emphasis on speaking, writing, basic grammar, syntax, and cross-cultural analysis.
- MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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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.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 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).
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE GREEK II: HOMER
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or GREK UN1121 or the equivalent. Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter, and to the historical background of Homer.
- TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK II
Prerequisites: GRKM UN2101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN2101. Students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chrysanthe Filippardos
Info - 4 points
INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.
- TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 4 points
The Age of Augustus
The reign of the first Roman emperor, Augustus (27bce-14ce), has been seen as a Roman revolution, both political and cultural. Rome had for centuries been governed as a Republic, but a series of increasingly divisive civil wars allowed Augustus to create a new political system in which he exercised sole rule as the ‘first citizen’ within a ‘Restored Republic’. Augustus’ reign lasted more than 40 years, and established a model of autocratic rule that would last for four centuries. During this time there were profound changes in the political, social, and cultural structures of Rome. In this course, you will examine the nature of these changes, Augustus’ political strategies, military activities, and religious initiatives through his own writing, the accounts of (often hostile) historians and a range of literary and archaeological sources, including Roman poetry. Ultimately, we will address the question: how did Augustus achieve the seemingly paradoxical feat of becoming a monarch within a republican system?
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lien Van Geel
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE GREEK PRESENT
Almost a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman past lives on in contemporary Greece, often in unexpected sites. In the built environment it appears as mosques, baths, covered markets, and fountains adorned with Arabic inscriptions. It also manifests itself in music, food, and language. Yet Ottoman legacies also shape the European present in less obvious ways and generate vehement debates about identity, nation-building, human rights, and interstate relations. In this course, we will be drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and comparative literature as well as a broad range of primary materials to view the Ottoman past through the lens of the Greek present. What understandings of nation-building emerge as more Ottoman archives became accessible to scholars? How does Islamic Family Law—still in effect in Greece—confront the European legal system? How are Ottoman administrative structures re-assessed in the context of acute socio-economic crisis and migration?
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. 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
Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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
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.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Marcus Folch
CULPA: 6
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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:
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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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
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- 3 points
SUPERVISED RSRCH IN GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Greek literature. Research paper required.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth K Irwin
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Marcus Folch
CULPA: 6
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Instructor:
Kathy H Eden
CULPA: 19
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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
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Instructor:
Stathis Gourgouris
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
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- 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.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
Info - 3 points
SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marcus Folch
CULPA: 6
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- 3 points
SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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- 3 points
Survey of Greek Literature
This course provides a survey of Greek literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Greek literature, afford them a sense of Greek literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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- 4 points
Survey of Latin Literature
This course provides a survey of Latin literature. It aims to improve students’ reading skills, familiarize them with some of the most canonical works of Latin literature, afford them a sense of Latin literary history, and introduce them to modern methodological approaches. Readings are drawn from the Classics Ph.D. reading list.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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- 4 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:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 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.
- F 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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- 1 points
Material Culture and Classics
In this course, we will explore the material and visual culture of the Mediterranean lands and beyond, that is Greece, Italy, Spain, North Africa, Asia Minor, Ancient Near East etc. Of course, facing the immensity of the topic and the bibliography we will be necessarily selective and experimental. We will alternate between reading ancient classical sources, secondary treatments, theoretical and conceptual readings, excavation reports, archaeological guides, and actual artifacts and images. The goal is to familiarize Classics students with trends in the study of material culture and to apply interdisciplinarity in research. We will aim to hold every other session in a museum in the New York region (Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn museum, etc). The selection of artifacts below is chose to complement and complicate the readings, but other choices are perfectly possible according to student interests and the evolution of our discussions.
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
Oratory, History, and Power: Cicero s
A close analysis of Cicero’s
Brutus
in its many contexts: as a response to Caesar’s dictatorship; as an account of oratory and rhetorical practices in Rome; and as the earliest surviving account of Roman literary history.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
James E Zetzel
CULPA: 8
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- 3 points