Power of Persuasion, Art of Speaking Wel
Intro to Classical Rhetor
Composed of three interwoven strands, this course seeks to introduce students to the dynamic traditions of speaking—and theorizing about speaking—that developed in ancient Greek and Roman cultural milieus and whose legacies continued to influence literary prose and public discourse for centuries afterward.
On Mondays we will undertake a historical survey of ancient rhetoric, supplementing George Kennedy’s A New History of Classical Rhetoric with excerpted primary readings from the sources it covers.
On Wednesdays we will read and analyze Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric to examine how a rhetorical treatise from Greek antiquity interacts with evidence from rhetorical practice (or competing works of rhetorical theory!) over the period under consideration.
On select Wednesdays during the semester, we will intersperse our reading of Aristotle with six “spotlighted” speeches (by Demosthenes, Cicero, Gregory of Nazianzus, Elizabeth I, Thomas More, and Frederick Douglass) that draw on and contribute to the richness of the classical Greek and Roman rhetorical tradition and its afterlives.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rosalie Stoner
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ELEMENTARY LATIN I
For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Steven Brandwood
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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.
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Instructor:
Steven Brandwood
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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:
Argyro Nicolaou
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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.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brett L Stine
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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 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Brett L Stine
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE
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- TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgios Spiliotopoulos
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INTERMEDIATE GREEK: PROSE
Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or the equivalent. Selections from Attic prose.
- TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brett L Stine
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INTERMEDIATE LATIN I
Prerequisites: LATN UN1101 & UN1102 or LATN UN1121 or equivalent. Selections from Catullus and Cicero.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven Brandwood
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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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgios Spiliotopoulos
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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
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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.
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Georgios Spiliotopoulos
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The Century of Mikis Theodorakis: Greece
Mikis Theodorakis's passing in 2021 marked a pivotal moment in how this great composer is
seen as an agent of social and political change, not only in Greece but also in Europe and on the
international stage. In this course, we will explore the life and work of the great Greek composer
Mikis Theodorakis in the context of the troubled passage from the 20th to the 21st century. This
course aims to be an exploration of the historical circumstances in the early 20th-century
Balkans, and the way literary production, notably poetry through the work of Theodorakis,
expressed and shaped the social and political struggles worldwide. The focus will be on popular
culture and popular music—and notably popular song-- as a means of political struggle through
everyday life experience. We will focus on popular song as an artistic creation, as Theodorakis
shaped it, using poetry brought to the masses through radio and popular concerts.
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired a significant amount of knowledge of
the history, politics, society, and culture of Greece in the troubled 20th and 21st centuries, of the
role of Greece in the turbulent history of the Balkans of the 20th century, and they will have
acquired also knowledge of the musical and cinematographical landscape of the same centuries.
They will get to know well the work of the great composer Mikis Theodorakis, a major figure of
the cultural and political landscape of Greece and Europe and even globally. They will be able to
think critically regarding the role of the individual in political, social, and historical
developments and the role of art, of engaged art and notably music, in history.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
WORLD RESPONDS TO THE GREEKS
MODERNITYPOSTCOLONIALTIYGLOB
This course examines various literary, artistic, and cultural traditions that respond to some of the most recognizable Greek motifs in myth, theater, and politics, with the aim of understanding both what these motifs might be offering specifically to these traditions in particular social-historical contexts and, at the same time, what these traditions in turn bring to our conventional understanding of these motifs, how they reconceptualize them and how they alter them. The overall impetus is framed by a prismatic inquiry of how conditions of modernity, postcoloniality, and globality fashion themselves in engagement with certain persistent imaginaries of antiquity.
- T 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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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.
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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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Paraskevi Martzavou
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
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Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 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:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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DIRCTD RSRCH-ANCIENT STUDIES I
DIRECTED RESEARCH ANC STUD 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.
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Instructor:
Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Instructor:
Karen Van Dyck
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SUPERVISED RSRCH IN GREEK LIT
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies permission. A program of research in Greek literature. Research paper required.
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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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
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Instructor:
Joseph A Howley
CULPA: 7
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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.
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.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE II
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher. Greek literature of the 4th century B.C. and of the Hellenistic and Imperial Ages.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
CULPA: 20
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HISTORY OF LATIN LIT II
Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from Augustus to 600 C.E.
- MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE
Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course covers various topics in Medieval Latin Literature.
- 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
PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ROME
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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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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Nikolas Kakkoufa
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Paraskevi Martzavou
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Karen Van Dyck
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Instructor:
Dimitris Antoniou
h-index: 5 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
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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.
- TF 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paraskevi Martzavou
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Instructor:
Katharina Volk
CULPA: 7
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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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LATIN PALEOGRAPHY
LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY
This course will survey the history of Latin manuscript books and Latin scripts from late Antiquity to the early years of printing (4th -15th century). Students will study the questions that have driven the field of paleography since its inception, and the canonical history of the main scripts used in Western Europe through the end of the Middle Ages. We will consider the manuscript book as a physical artifact, in a codicological approach; and we will look at the production of books in their social and political settings. Students will develop practical skills in reading and transcription, and will begin to recognize the features that allow localization and dating of manuscripts. We will use original materials from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library whenever possible.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Carmela V Franklin
CULPA: 2
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Gender, Sexualities and Love in the Hell
Gender in the Hellenic Wo
In this seminar, we will examine the elements of a history of gender and sexuality in the
Hellenistic period. The topic of gender and history has been extensively studied for Archaic
and Classical Greece, but not for the Hellenistic: symptomatic (and influential) is the way M.
Foucault moves from Plato to Plutarch, erasing the intervening four centuries. We will
examine the consolidation and evolution of a particular “normal” form of sexuality (centred
on the structural opposition between marriage and “queer spaces”), then examine a particular
region (Ptolemaic Egypt) to try to reconceive in terms of gender familiar themes such as
monarchy, colonization, and Hellenization.