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Our department offers an extensive range of classes to complement and expand your advanced degree in Classical Studies. From the archaeology of Bronze Age Greece to Medieval Latin, our department will challenge and inspire you to master as many course areas and languages as possible.

We offer a wide range of courses to graduate students, including year-long surveys of Latin and Greek Literature, Latin and Greek composition classes, and a Literary and Cultural Theory class. Our students also benefit from the rich course offerings of other departments including History, Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, and Art History that explore diverse facets of the ancient world.

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CLAS-G501: Archaic Greek Lyric

The verses of Sappho, Pindar, Archilochus, and many other archaic Greek poets have moved audiences for thousands of years. In this advanced Greek language class, we translate their poetry as we unpack what the genre of ‘lyric’ meant to the Greeks and means to us still today. Together, we immerse ourselves in the performance practices, dialects, histories, emotions, sensations, and politics of archaic song culture while developing skills in translation, research, and interpretation.

CLAS-L510: Livy

The Latin historian Livy composed a monumental history of Rome from the city’s mythological foundation under Romulus to the rise of the Augustan Principate. Students in this course have read Livy’s narrative of the Seven Kings in Book 1 and of the military disasters of the Second Punic War in Book 22. In addition to developing their Latin reading skills, students have also learned how to interpret the text as a cultural artifact of Augustan Rome. Their study culminated in the completion of a research paper on a topic of their choice.

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