Below are descriptions of courses offered in the department for the current academic year (instructors indicated in brackets).

GRADUATE COURSES FOR 2025-2026

FALL TERM (D2) 2025

CLAS 5V27/4V27: Archaeological Imagination (Elizabeth Greene)

Creative processes of working with traces of the past: imagining lives, telling stories, and designing frameworks for engagement. Archaeological perspectives and public representation of archaeology in various media and key debates in the field from Atlantis to outer space.

CLAS 5V61: The Greek Symposium (Adam Rappold)

Socio-cultural practices, material remains, visual and literary representations.

GREE 5P80/4P01: Readings in Greek Literature / Epic I (Roberto Nickel)

Readings in Homer.

LATI 5V31/4P31: Horace, Satires (Roberto Nickel)

Readings in books I and II of Horace’s Satires, including an overview of scholarship on the origins and nature of Roman satire.

WINTER TERM (D3) 2026

CLAS 5V10: Topics in Aegean Prehistory (R. Angus K. Smith)

Study of a specific chronological, geographical or theoretical aspect of the Minoan, Mycenaean or Cycladic cultures of the Aegean basin.

CLAS 5V69/4V61: Greek Religion (Adam Rappold)

Greek religious thought from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era in archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence with a focus on festivals, sacrifice, and practices on the margin of polis-religion such as magic and prophecy.

GREE 5V04/4P12: Lysias and the Attic Orators (Allison Glazebrook)

Readings in the speeches of Lysias and the study of critical scholarship.

LATI 5V20/4P02: Ovid, Fasti (Fanny Dolansky)

Readings in Ovid’s Fasti and an overview of scholarship.