Courses in Greek, Ancient (490)
Courses in Greek, Ancient (490)
01:490:310 Greek Heroic Poetry
- Course Code: 01:490:310
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
- Credits: 3
Studies in the poetry and culture of Homeric Greece. Selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208, or permission of instructor.
01:490:309 Lyric Poetry
- Course Code: 01:490:309
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
- Credits: 3
Survey of the main poets of the "lyric age" of Greece (Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Solon, Theognis, and Anacreon); reading of an ode of Pindar. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208, or permission of instructor.
01:490:308 Greek Historical Writings
- Course Code: 01:490:308
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall
- Credits: 3
Readings of selected narratives in Herodotus and of main speeches, excursuses, and parts of books six and seven of Thucydides. Comparative study of historical method. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208, or permission of instructor.
01:490:306 From Athens to Alexandria
- Course Code: 01:490:306
- Credits: 3
Major works of the literature of Greece from the fourth century BC into the Hellenistic Age. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 305 or permission of instructor.
01:490:305 Greek Drama
- Course Code: 01:490:305
- Semester(s) Offered: Spring
- Credits: 3
Readings in the works of fifth-century Greek dramatists with special emphasis on Sophocles. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 208 or permission of instructor.