Courses for FALL 2009
| CLAS 8801.1 |
Readings in Plato |
CUNY (at NYU) |
Simpson |
W 6:30-8:30 PM |
| CLAS 8801.2 |
Theocritus |
CUNY |
Stern |
M 6:30-8:30 PM |
| CLAS 8801.3 |
Vergil's Georgics |
CUNY |
Thibodeau |
M 4:15-6:15 PM |
| CLAS 8805.1 |
Greek Prose Composition |
NYU |
Asper |
T 4:15-6:15
PM |
| CLAS 8805.2 |
Literary Papyrology |
NYU |
Cribiore |
T 6:30-8:30
PM |
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| GREK 6020.1 |
Rhetoric and Philosophy in Lucian
(see description below)* |
Lincoln Ctr. Rm. 404 |
Penella |
Th 6:30-8:30 PM |
| LATN 5220.1 |
Pagans and Christians in Latin Imperial Texts
(see description below)** |
Lincoln Ctr. Rm. 404 |
Sogno |
Th 4:15-6:15
PM |
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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Lucian: Against the background of the standard literary-rhetorical educational system and, in philosophy, the prominence of Plato combined with the competition of a range of philosophical sects, this course will examine Lucian as a satirist of the rhetorical and philosophical culture of his day. The course will begin, as it lays the rhetorical groundwork, with some examples of straightforward rhetorical exercises that survive in Lucian's corpus. It will then move on to works that satirize rhetoric and philosophy. A few biographical and programmatic pieces will also be included. Many examples of Lucian's "comic dialogue" will be sampled. Weekly Greek assignments, supplemented by additional readings in Lucian in English, secondary readings, a short class presentation, a course paper, two in-class translation exams, and a take-home final exam.
**Pagans and Christians in Latin Imperial Texts: This course offers an overview of Imperial Latin prose texts from the third to the fifth century and aims at exploring two main related questions, namely how the texts of this period depict the complex relationship between Christians and the so-called "pagans," and what the relationship of Christian literature is to traditional Roman literature. The material will be organized chronologically and thematically. Among the texts and genres that we will examine are martyr literature (the
Passio Perpetuae), Christian apology (Tertullian), classical and Christian historiography (Ammianus, Lactantius, Jerome), biography (the
Historia Augusta, the
Life of Antony), autobiography (Augustine's
Confessions), and the erudite dialogue (Macrobius). All primary sources will be read in Latin; any other arrangments must be discussed with the instructor.
