CLAS 210 A: Greek and Roman Classics in English

Winter 2025
Meeting:
MTWThF 12:30pm - 1:20pm / DEN 113
SLN:
12553
Section Type:
Lecture
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Classics 210 Winter 2025

long haired god Apollo holds a large lyre; red figure on black background

Are you interested in great conversations about great books?

In comedy, tragedy, love poetry, epic stories of heroes, and philosophical writings, ancient Greek and Roman writers explored the complex challenges of family and civic life, war, love, and what it means to live a good life. 

This thematically organized and discussion-based course develops skills in close reading and analysis to explore major literary works from the ancient Greek and Roman world in lively, modern conversations. 

Instructor: Professor Catherine Connors, Department of Classics, Den 262 B. 

 

Week 1 Introduction; Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Plautus, The Pot of Gold

Week 2 Lyric poetry: Sappho, Catullus, Horace

Week 3 Aeschylus Agamemnon, Sophocles Oedipus the King

Week 4 Euripides Hippolytus, Aristophanes, Frogs and Seneca Phaedra

Week 5 Homer, Iliad  (selections)

Week 6 Virgil, Aeneid (selections)

Week 7 Ovid, Metamorphoses (selections)

Week 8 Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (selections); Elegy

Week 9 Plato, Republic (selections), Cicero Dream of Scipio

Week 10 wrap-up

Books will be available at the University Bookstore for purchase. 

Plautus, Four Comedies, trans E. Segal. (Oxford)

Aristophanes Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs, trans. Diane Arnson Svarlien (Hackett). 

Greek Tragedies vol 1 Trans. D. Grene and R. Lattimore. 3rd edition (U Chicago Press). 

Seneca, Phaedra trans. F. Ahl.  (Cornell) 

Homer, Iliad, trans. P. Green. (U of California Press)

Virgil Aeneid, trans. A. Mandelbaum (Penguin)

Ovid Metamorphoses, trans. A. D. Melville (Oxford) 

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things trans. W. Englert (Hackett) 

 

 

Catalog Description:
Introduction to classical literature through a study of the major Greek and Latin authors in modern translation. Offered: AWSp.
GE Requirements Met:
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
December 8, 2024 - 5:17 pm