This course examines Ancient Greek and Roman art, literature, and thought, and the influence of this classical tradition on the artistic, intellectual, and cultural development of subsequent societies from late antiquity to the present day.

Surveys western civilization from the Greco-Roman perspective, covering the classical tradition from the Middle Ages to the present.

Surveys western civilization from the Greco-Roman perspective, beginning before the Greeks and Romans, investigating the origins of their cultures, and proceeding through Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages.

This course offers a survey of Roman History from the prehistoric settlements in the area of the Seven Hills to the deterioration of the western Empire in the fifth century C.E. Special topics of interest include the material culture of the Roman world; the use of images in the pursuit of political agendas; classical notions of the divine; and concepts of gender, power, and identity. Popular representations of ancient Rome, specifically in film, will provide another area of consideration for comparison throughout the semester.

A political, social and cultural history of Greek civilization from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander the Great.

This literature course examines Greek and Roman classical myths and Jewish and Christian biblical stories that have frequently been represented in visual cultures over the centuries in Europe and beyond. When taught as part of a study abroad trip, the course will be customized to provide the literary background of the specific visual material students will view while abroad.

A survey of history, geography and culture designed to provide a thorough grounding for students studying Classics and Classical Receptions as part of study abroad programs. In this course, we will develop a foundation for your study abroad experience by helping you develop a thorough sense of the historical and cultural context in which the works of art, architecture, and literature you will encounter, as well as the museums, buildings, and archaeological sites you will visit, were created. Because the logistics of a study abroad program often mean visiting sites out of historical or chronological order, this course will help you construct a mental framework into which you may place the disparate items you will consider in your program. Classics study abroad programs require students like you to grapple with material in multiple disciplines (Archaeology, Architecture, History, Art History, Literature, Religious Studies) simultaneously, and this basic grounding in the most important periods, figures, movements, discoveries, and ideas relevant to your study abroad program will be a foundation that will allow you to connect these interwoven threads. While we will only be able to provide a brief introduction to these periods and ideas in this course, you will develop both a general sense of the shape of the relevant cultural history as well as a robust set of illustrative examples and figures.

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.

This course examines different cultural concepts and social realities that prevailed in ancient Greece and Rome and that have persisted in subsequent cultures and societies of the world, to one extent or another, such as in Europe and the US. The course addresses the complex relationships between material, literary, and cultural remains. Topics may include crime and punishment in Greece and Rome; healers, wonder workers, and sages; city and country life; the place of religion in ancient Mediterranean societies; the Greek and Roman city; food and feasts; warfare and migrations; Greeks, Romans, and 'barbarians.'

The myths, legends, and folktales of the Greeks, Romans and the peoples of the ancient Near East have remained popular for thousands of years. Together we'll not only learn about these stories themselves, but also think about why these stories are so popular, where they came from, and what insights they give us into the various people and cultures who created and reinterpreted them across the millennia.