Courses for spring 2013
Fordham classes begin on January 14, cuny and nyu classes on january 28.
| CLAS 8829.1 |
Horace, Odes |
CUNY |
Thibodeau |
Mon. 6:30 |
| CLAS 8831.1 |
Callimachus |
CUNY |
Clayman |
Mon. 4:15 |
| CLAS 8837.1 |
The Athenian Acropolis |
NYU |
Connelly |
Tues. 4:15 |
| CLAS 8839.1 |
Persian Empire |
NYU |
Monson |
Tues. 2:00 |
| CLAS 8841.1 |
Latin Prose Composition |
NYU |
Davis |
Tues. 6:30 |
| CLAS 8833.1 |
Modern Approaches to Ancient Historiography |
CUNY |
Yarrow |
Wed. 4:15 |
| CLAS 88??.1 |
Art and Archaeology of the Greco-Roman Near East and Egypt |
CUNY |
Macaulay-Lewis |
Wed. 6:30 |
| CLAS 8843.1 |
Aristophanes |
NYU at CUNY |
Sider |
Wed. 6:30 |
| GREK 6463.1 |
Greek Orators
[description below] |
Fordham Lincoln Ctr. rm. 404 |
Foster |
Th. 4:15 |
| LATN 6453.1 |
Caesar's commentaries
[description below] |
fordham lincoln ctr. rm. 404 |
penella |
th. 6:30 |
Greek Orators - Prof. Foster
This course is a survey of Greek forensic, deliberative, and epideictic rhetoric of the fifth and fourth centuries. Students will read, analyze, and discuss both "free-standing" and "embedded" speeches arranged diachronically. In addition to considering written speeches as residual artifacts of specific performance contexts, we will explore how each exhibits the shared codes and conventions of an emergent literary genre. This course will help students better comprehend and appreciate normative Greek prose while they hone their critical and communicative skills by undertaking a variety of brief analytical exercises that will culminate in an oral presentation and paper. In addition, the course will assist students preparing for their Greek translation examination, as many of the assigned works (e.g., Gorgias's
Helen; Thucydides 2.35-64; Lysias 1, 12; Demosthenes's
Philippics) are reading list requirements.
Caesar's Commentaries - Prof. Penella
A reading of the
Bellum Gallicum and the
Bellum Civile. We shall consider the commentary as a genre, the role of the two commentaries in Caesar's political career, the commentaries as narrative and as apology, and more recent approaches that analyze them as artful prose. There will be readings in secondary literature and a course paper as well as short oral presentations and a midterm and final examination. A week each will also be devoted to Caesar's
Anticato and to his
De analogia.
Courses for sUMMER 2013
LATN 5090 L11 Latin for Reading Sogno Session I (May 28-June 27) MW 6:00-9:00 PM Lincoln Center
LATN 5093 R21 Ecclesiastical Latin Clark Session II (July 2-August 6) MW 6:00-9:00 PM Rose Hill
Courses for fall 2013
| CLAS 8800.1 |
Greek Epigraphy |
CUNY at NYU |
Kellogg |
Mon. 4:15 |
| CLAS 8802.1 |
Ecphrasis |
NYU |
Konstan |
Mon. 6:30 |
| CLAS 8803.1 |
Education in Greece and Rome |
NYU |
Cribriore |
Tues. 4:15 |
| CLAS 8804.1 |
Greece and the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical Periods: Materials, Methods, and Debates |
NYU |
Kowalzig |
Tues. 6:30 |
| CLAS 8811.1 |
Pindar |
CUNY |
Lidov |
Wed. 4:15 |
| CLAS 8824.1 |
Greek Rhetoric and Composition |
CUNY |
Kowersky |
Wed. 6:30 |
| GREK 6361.1 |
Euripides |
Fordham Lincoln Ctr. Rm. 404 |
Peirce |
Thurs. 4:15 |
| LATN 6454.1 |
Livy's First Pentad |
Fordham Lincoln Ctr.
Rm. 404 |
Penella |
Thurs. 6:30 |
| MVST 5050.1 |
World of Late Antiquity
[description below] |
Fordham Rose Hill (Bronx)
FMH 416 |
Sogno/McFadden |
Wed. 5:00-7:30 |
World of Late Antiquity - Profs. Sogno/McFadden
The legacy of Gibbon's masterpiece
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has exercised a great and lasting influence on the way in which the world of Late Antiquity is perceived and presented, but the work of Peter Brown and other scholars has offered a powerful alternative to the Gibbonian concept of inevitable decline. The two opposing concepts of "crisis" and "transformation" now co-exist as interpretive frameworks in the flourishing field of Late Antiquity and continue to inspire thought-provoking studies about this fascinating and enigmatic period, which defies easy explanation. The course offers an introduction to the late antique world by surveying the history, art, and culture of the Roman Empire from the third to the sixth century. We shall analyze both primary sources and monuments and examine critically the secondary literature that studies them.
