Undergraduate
Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research
Majors Seminar #1
Directed Readings (Undergraduate)
Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos
Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspired by Sappho in ancient and modern times, and composers who put her poetry to music.
Empire and Aftermath: Greek Art from the Parthenon to Praxiteles
The course explores the art and architecture of the Athenian Empire in the age of Pericles, and then considers the effects of civil war and plague on Greek art and society in the later 5th and early 4th centuries.
Latin Syntax
(First-year graduate students register for 275A,B.) Intensive review of Latin syntax. Begins Autumn Quarter and continues through the fifth week of Winter Quarter. See CLASSGEN 205A,B for supplemental courses. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Prerequisite for undergraduates: three years of Latin.
Advanced Latin: Virgil's Eclogues
Intermediate Latin: Introduction to Literature
Phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax. Readings in prose and poetry. Analysis of literary language, including rhythm, meter, word order, narrative, and figures of speech.
Beginning Latin
Vocabulary and syntax of the classical language. No previous knowledge of Latin is assumed. Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade.
Advanced Greek: Rhetoric of Helen





