Graduate Courses
16:190:503 Introduction to Graduate Literary Study: Latin
(3)
Close readings and basic critical techniques of interpreting Latin
literature.
16:190:504 Introduction to Graduate Literary Study: Greek
(3)
Close readings and basic critical techniques of interpreting Greek
literature.
16:190:505 Studies in Classics (3)
Topics in the field of classics selected for special study.
16:190:507, 508 Readings in Classics (3)
Readings in areas of special interest in Latin and/or Greek authors.
16:190:509 Pro-Seminar: Materials and Methods (3)
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Latin and Greek.
Introduction to the discipline of classical philology. Topics
covered include bibliography, lexicography, linguistics, textual
history and criticism, geography, palaeography, papyrology, epigraphy,
and literary theory.
16:190:510 Hellenistic Literature (3)
Extensive readings in the major authors of the Hellenistic Age
(350-30 BC), especially those who influenced Roman literature
and thought.
16:190:511 Greek Literature of the Roman Period (3)
Greek authors of the Roman period (30 BC-AD 500) selected with
a view to their influence on the literature and thought of the
Roman Empire.
16:190:519, 520, 521, 522 Latin Poetry Seminar (3, 3,
3, 3)
The work of a different Latin poet each summer (e.g., Catullus,
Propertius/Tibullus, Vergil, Ovid).
16:190:523 Seminar on Rome and Pompeii (3)
Research and instruction at Rutgers and in Italy on Rome and Pompeii.
Includes oral presentations and a paper.
16:190:525 Historians of Republican Rome (3)
A critical reading of selected fragments from Roman annalistic
writers, and an intensive study of the historical writings of
Caesar and Sallust.
16:190:526 Historians of Imperial Rome (3)
Selected major Greek and Latin texts for the history of the Roman
Empire. Chronological limits of the course are the periods covered
by Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus.
16:190:530 Aristotle: Constitution of the Athenians
(3)
An analysis of Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and other
documents pertaining to the development of Greek political institutions.
16:190:557 Homer (3)
The Iliad and Odyssey in their historical, literary,
and cultural background.
16:190:559, 560 Plato (3, 3)
Several major dialogues of Plato studied with special emphasis
on the philosophical problems they raise.
16:190:562 Attic Historiography (3)
Greek history of the sixth and fifth centuries BC in the Greek
historiographic tradition. Emphasis on detailed study of the texts, especially Thucydides.
16:190:563, 564 Greek Drama (3,
3)
Tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides;
the comedies of Aristophanes.
16:190:565 Herodotus (3)
A study of the beginnings of the Greek historiographic tradition
in the sixth and fifth centuries BC, with primary emphasis
on Herodotus.
16:190:566, 567 Ancient Novels
(3, 3)
Greek and Roman prose fiction of the postclassical
period in its literary and sociohistorical context.
16:190:569, 570 Greek or Latin Prose
Composition (1, 1)
Advanced Greek or Latin prose composition.
16:190:571 Roman Drama (3)
Selected works from the dramatic literature
of Rome.
16:190:573 Ancient Comedy (3)
A study of the conventions of Greek and
Roman comedy.
16:190:575 Vergil (3)
The Eclogues, Georgics, or
Aeneid of Vergil.
16:190:579 Problems in Augustan Literature
(3)
Individual topics for research and criticism
involving relationships among the elegiac poets, Horace, and Vergil.
16:190:612 Greek and Roman Biography (3)
Study of the development of classical biography through selected
works from major authors in Greek and Latin, including Xenophon,
Plutarch, Nepos, and Suetonius.
16:190:614 Classical Epic (3)
A comparative study of Homer, Apollonius, Vergil, and Lucan as
epic poets.
16:190:620, 621 Topics in Greek and Roman Archaeology
(3, 3)
Intensive study of special Greek and Roman archaeological monuments
and their significance for the literature, religion, and history
of the classical civilizations.
16:190:622 Latin Epigraphy (3)
A practical introduction to the study of
Latin inscriptions with emphasis on the reading, interpretation,
and editing of texts on stone.
16:190:623 Latin Palaeography
(3)
Introduction to the study of Latin palaeography
and manuscripts.
16:190:624 The Book (3)
This seminar examines the relationship between ancient
literary forms and the media in which they were presented. Specifically, it
considers the connections between the various ways in which ancient books were
published and distributed--in papyrus rolls and bound codices, individually
and in groups, privately and commercially--and the cultural and literary conventions
of reading in antiquity and applies both to the interpretation of classical
literature.
16:190:625 Rome in the Age of Augustus
(3)
An archaeological survey of urban planning,
architectural and artistic achievements in Rome and the provinces
seen in the broader perspective of Augustus' political and cultural
program.
16:190:630 Classical Greek Sculpture
(3)
Stylistic and thematic discussion of the
works of individual sculptors and of major monuments such as temple
pediments and friezes from 480 BC to the end of the fourth century.
16:190:631 Roman Sculpture (3)
The major stylistic periods of Roman sculpture
in historical reliefs, sarcophagi, and in portraiture from the
late Republic to the age of Constantine the Great.
16:190:652 New Comedy and Character
Study (3)
Theophrastus' Characters and at least
two plays of Menander, with emphasis on the various kinds of characters
recognized in Greek literature and their relationship to plot
and dramatic action.
16:190:654 Greek Oratory (3)
Selected Greek public orations with emphasis
on their significance in political history and their place in
the development of Greek rhetoric.
16:190:655, 656 Aristotle (3,
3)
Special philosophical problems studied in
reference to Aristotle's work; emphasis on the variety of Aristotle's
interests and the significance of his conceptual language.
16:190:671 Latin Satire (3)
The continuity and development of satire in Greek and Latin literature. Major
emphasis on the Roman satirists.
16:190:674 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (3)
Major developments in ancient philosophy after Aristotle. Selected
problems of philosophical significance in Stoic and Epicurean
writings, with special reference to Lucretius, Cicero, and Seneca.
16:190:675 Cicero's Works (3)
Selected orations, treatises, or letters of Cicero against the
background of his private and public life, his sources in Greek
and Roman thought, and his influence on later Western tradition.
16:190:677, 678 History of Latin Literature I: The Republic
(3, 3)
The origin and development of Latin literature from its birth
in the third century BC down to the end of the Republic.
16:190:679, 680 History of Latin Literature II: The Empire
(3, 3)
Extensive reading in the major authors of the first and second
centuries of the Roman Empire, with emphasis on the continued
development of poetry and prose.
16:190:682 Elegiac Poetry (3)
Historic, thematic, and stylistic considerations of the elegies
of Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, and their Greek antecedents.
16:190:701, 702 Research in Classics (BA, BA)
Rutgers graduate students may also take courses through the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium.
The Graduate School-New Brunswick participates in the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium, an arrangement among the eight major arts and sciences graduate schools in the New York metropolitan area that enables Ph.D. students in the arts and sciences to take courses offered by other consortium members through a simple interuniversity registration process. The other participating graduate schools are Columbia, Fordham, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New School University, New York University, Princeton, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Arts and sciences Ph.D. students in their second year of graduate study and beyond are eligible to apply through the graduate school dean's office.