<
Classics Courses :
100
|
200
|
300
|
400
CLA-121 Survey of Greek Civilization
Survey of primary texts in literature, history, and philosophy from archaic Greece through classical Athens, with emphasis on concepts that influenced Western thought.
CLA-122 Survey of Roman Civilization
Survey of history, literature, art, architecture, etc. of Rome from its founding to the Council of Nicea, with emphasis on the material culture of an empire encompassing the whole Mediterranean world.
CLA-125 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
Examination of the goals and methods of classical archaeology through a survey of Greek and Roman sites, from the Bronze Age through the Late Antique period. Course includes discussion of techniques such as survey and issues such as the antiquities market. Not offered every year.
CLA-230 Classical Mythology
Survey of classical mythology, with attention to the process of myth-making and the development of religion.
CLA-235 Topics in Classical Studies
Exploration of a special topic in Classical Studies chosen by a faculty member or visiting faculty member. Topic varies with the interest and expertise of the instructor. Recent offerings included the Greco Roman City, Women in the Classical World, and Ancient Technology. Not offered every year.
CLA-237 Death and Burial in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Study of both the attitudes toward death and the practices of disposal of the body, from the end of the Greek Bronze Age through the classical Greek and Roman periods to the end of antiquity. The approach is primarily archaeological and historical, but includes relevant classical literature on the afterlife and on burial customs as well as a look at tomb inscriptions.
CLA-238 The Graeco-Roman City
Study of plans and monuments of Greek and Roman cities as well as the writings of Greek and Roman authors about cities and urban life. The approach is a combination of archaeological, historical, and literary. The course begins with the Late Bronze Age in Greece and concludes with cities of the 6th century A.D.
CLA-241 The Greek and Roman City
Study of plans and monuments of Greek and Roman cities as well as writings of classical authors about cities and urban life. A combined archaeological, historical, and literary approach is used, with an emphasis on how the growth of cities depended on the development of technology for the construction of fortifications, large buildings, aqueducts, and other urban necessities. The course begins with the Mycenaean period in Greece and concludes with Roman cities of the 6th century AD.
CLA-251 Greek History
Survey of Hellenic civilization from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. Papers required. Alternate years.
CLA-252 Roman History
History of the Republic and Empire. Papers required. Alternate years.
CLA-264 Ancient Tragedy
Study of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Class culminates in a public performance of a tragic play.
CLA-266 Ancient Comedy
Study of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. Class culminates in a public performance of a comic play.
CLA-270 Ancient Drama
Study of Ancient Greek and Roman plays, both tragic and comic, by way of reading, writing about, discussing, and performing 10-12 plays. Unlike other ancient drama courses offered in this department, this course permits juxtaposition and comparison of tragic and comic plays. By being less constrained by a narrow (though valuable and ancient) notion of genre, the approach offers richer opportunities for thematic interpretation.
CLA-281 Ancient Greek Political Theory and Practice
Using Plato's Republic and Laws and Aristotle's Politics as primary sources, course investigates the nature of ancient Greek political theory and the notion of the Ideal State, whether conceived of as timocratic, monarchical, or democratic. Greek city-state constitutions are examined, as preserved in the writings of Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Oxyrhyncus Historian. Not offered every year.
CLA-362 Ancient Epic
Study of Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, and Ovid.
CLA-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-451 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-452 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-453 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-461 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
CLA-464 Senior Capstone
Greek Courses: 100 | 200 | 300 | 400
GRK-101 Elementary Greek
Introduction to the alphabet, inflections, and syntax of Attic Greek.
GRK-102 Elementary Greek
Introduction to the alphabet, inflections, and syntax of Attic Greek.
GRK-201 Intermediate Greek
Designed to increase the student's skill in reading texts. Selections from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and other authors are read, with an emphasis on grammar.
GRK-202 Intermediate Greek
Designed to increase the student's skill in reading texts. Selections from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and other authors are read, with an emphasis on grammar.
GRK-203 Plato
Plato: The 'Apology of Socrates' and the 'Crito' are read in their entirety.
GRK-204 New Testament Greek
Introduction to Koine Greek. Selections from the New Testament are read with attention to language and content. Not offered every year.
GRK-300 Plato
Plato: The 'Apology of Socrates' and the 'Crito' are read in their entirety.
GRK-301 Homer
Selections from the Iliad and Odyssey, with examination of syntax and style. Not offered every year.
GRK-302 Greek Historians
Readings in the text of Herodotus or Thucydides. Not offered every year.
GRK-303 Greek Comedy
An introduction to Greek drama. Selected comedies of Aristophanes are read with attention to style and metrics. Not offered every year.
GRK-304 Greek Tragedy
Selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Various plays are also read in English. Oral reports required. Not offered every year.
GRK-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
Latin Courses: 100 | 200 | 300 | 400
LAT-101Elementary Latin
Introduction to Latin grammar and syntax.
LAT-102Elementary Latin
Introduction to Latin grammar and syntax.
LAT-201Intermediate Latin
Designed to increase skill in reading texts. Selections from Latin prose and poetry are read, with continuing grammatical review and analysis.
LAT-202Intermediate Latin
Designed to increase skill in reading texts. Selections from Latin prose and poetry are read, with continuing grammatical review and analysis.
LAT-301Topics in Latin
Exploration of historical, literary, or philosophical topics with special attention to the careful reading of select Latin texts.
LAT-303Cicero
Selected essays of Cicero, with supplemental reading from letters and orations. Supplemental reading in English. Not offered every year.
LAT-305Ovid Transformations
Readings in Latin in various works of the Augustan poet Ovid, with an emphasis on elegy and epic. The course focuses on technical matters such as grammar, syntax, scansion, rhetorical figures, oral recitation, and on interpretation. Typically, interpretation needs to be distinctly secondary in order to convey the degree to which sophisticated interpretation depends on technical precision as well as on exegetical finesse.
LAT-306St. Augustine
Selections from Confessions, with attention to the differences between Late Latin and Classical Latin. Not offered every year.
LAT-308Roman Satire
Selections from Horace, Martial, and Juvenal, with attention to the changes in language and style from the Classical to the Post Classical period. Not offered every year.
LAT-309Roman Historians
Selections from Livy and Tacitus, with attention to their peculiarities of language and style. Not offered every year.
LAT-312Prose Composition
Designed to increase the student's ability to translate from English to Latin; includes a thorough grammar review. Not offered every year.
LAT-401Vergil
Study of Vergil's Aeneid, with emphasis on syntax, metrics, rhetoric, and interpretation. Not offered every year.
LAT-450Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
LAT-451Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-121 Survey of Greek Civilization
Survey of primary texts in literature, history, and philosophy from archaic Greece through classical Athens, with emphasis on concepts that influenced Western thought.
CLA-122 Survey of Roman Civilization
Survey of history, literature, art, architecture, etc. of Rome from its founding to the Council of Nicea, with emphasis on the material culture of an empire encompassing the whole Mediterranean world.
CLA-125 Introduction to Classical Archaeology
Examination of the goals and methods of classical archaeology through a survey of Greek and Roman sites, from the Bronze Age through the Late Antique period. Course includes discussion of techniques such as survey and issues such as the antiquities market. Not offered every year.
CLA-230 Classical Mythology
Survey of classical mythology, with attention to the process of myth-making and the development of religion.
CLA-235 Topics in Classical Studies
Exploration of a special topic in Classical Studies chosen by a faculty member or visiting faculty member. Topic varies with the interest and expertise of the instructor. Recent offerings included the Greco Roman City, Women in the Classical World, and Ancient Technology. Not offered every year.
CLA-237 Death and Burial in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Study of both the attitudes toward death and the practices of disposal of the body, from the end of the Greek Bronze Age through the classical Greek and Roman periods to the end of antiquity. The approach is primarily archaeological and historical, but includes relevant classical literature on the afterlife and on burial customs as well as a look at tomb inscriptions.
CLA-238 The Graeco-Roman City
Study of plans and monuments of Greek and Roman cities as well as the writings of Greek and Roman authors about cities and urban life. The approach is a combination of archaeological, historical, and literary. The course begins with the Late Bronze Age in Greece and concludes with cities of the 6th century A.D.
CLA-241 The Greek and Roman City
Study of plans and monuments of Greek and Roman cities as well as writings of classical authors about cities and urban life. A combined archaeological, historical, and literary approach is used, with an emphasis on how the growth of cities depended on the development of technology for the construction of fortifications, large buildings, aqueducts, and other urban necessities. The course begins with the Mycenaean period in Greece and concludes with Roman cities of the 6th century AD.
CLA-251 Greek History
Survey of Hellenic civilization from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. Papers required. Alternate years.
CLA-252 Roman History
History of the Republic and Empire. Papers required. Alternate years.
CLA-264 Ancient Tragedy
Study of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Class culminates in a public performance of a tragic play.
CLA-266 Ancient Comedy
Study of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. Class culminates in a public performance of a comic play.
CLA-270 Ancient Drama
Study of Ancient Greek and Roman plays, both tragic and comic, by way of reading, writing about, discussing, and performing 10-12 plays. Unlike other ancient drama courses offered in this department, this course permits juxtaposition and comparison of tragic and comic plays. By being less constrained by a narrow (though valuable and ancient) notion of genre, the approach offers richer opportunities for thematic interpretation.
CLA-281 Ancient Greek Political Theory and Practice
Using Plato's Republic and Laws and Aristotle's Politics as primary sources, course investigates the nature of ancient Greek political theory and the notion of the Ideal State, whether conceived of as timocratic, monarchical, or democratic. Greek city-state constitutions are examined, as preserved in the writings of Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Oxyrhyncus Historian. Not offered every year.
CLA-362 Ancient Epic
Study of Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, and Ovid.
CLA-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-451 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-452 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-453 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-461 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
CLA-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
CLA-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
CLA-464 Senior Capstone
Greek Courses: 100 | 200 | 300 | 400
GRK-101 Elementary Greek
Introduction to the alphabet, inflections, and syntax of Attic Greek.
GRK-102 Elementary Greek
Introduction to the alphabet, inflections, and syntax of Attic Greek.
GRK-201 Intermediate Greek
Designed to increase the student's skill in reading texts. Selections from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and other authors are read, with an emphasis on grammar.
GRK-202 Intermediate Greek
Designed to increase the student's skill in reading texts. Selections from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and other authors are read, with an emphasis on grammar.
GRK-203 Plato
Plato: The 'Apology of Socrates' and the 'Crito' are read in their entirety.
GRK-204 New Testament Greek
Introduction to Koine Greek. Selections from the New Testament are read with attention to language and content. Not offered every year.
GRK-300 Plato
Plato: The 'Apology of Socrates' and the 'Crito' are read in their entirety.
GRK-301 Homer
Selections from the Iliad and Odyssey, with examination of syntax and style. Not offered every year.
GRK-302 Greek Historians
Readings in the text of Herodotus or Thucydides. Not offered every year.
GRK-303 Greek Comedy
An introduction to Greek drama. Selected comedies of Aristophanes are read with attention to style and metrics. Not offered every year.
GRK-304 Greek Tragedy
Selected plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Various plays are also read in English. Oral reports required. Not offered every year.
GRK-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
Latin Courses: 100 | 200 | 300 | 400
LAT-101Elementary Latin
Introduction to Latin grammar and syntax.
LAT-102Elementary Latin
Introduction to Latin grammar and syntax.
LAT-201Intermediate Latin
Designed to increase skill in reading texts. Selections from Latin prose and poetry are read, with continuing grammatical review and analysis.
LAT-202Intermediate Latin
Designed to increase skill in reading texts. Selections from Latin prose and poetry are read, with continuing grammatical review and analysis.
LAT-301Topics in Latin
Exploration of historical, literary, or philosophical topics with special attention to the careful reading of select Latin texts.
LAT-303Cicero
Selected essays of Cicero, with supplemental reading from letters and orations. Supplemental reading in English. Not offered every year.
LAT-305Ovid Transformations
Readings in Latin in various works of the Augustan poet Ovid, with an emphasis on elegy and epic. The course focuses on technical matters such as grammar, syntax, scansion, rhetorical figures, oral recitation, and on interpretation. Typically, interpretation needs to be distinctly secondary in order to convey the degree to which sophisticated interpretation depends on technical precision as well as on exegetical finesse.
LAT-306St. Augustine
Selections from Confessions, with attention to the differences between Late Latin and Classical Latin. Not offered every year.
LAT-308Roman Satire
Selections from Horace, Martial, and Juvenal, with attention to the changes in language and style from the Classical to the Post Classical period. Not offered every year.
LAT-309Roman Historians
Selections from Livy and Tacitus, with attention to their peculiarities of language and style. Not offered every year.
LAT-312Prose Composition
Designed to increase the student's ability to translate from English to Latin; includes a thorough grammar review. Not offered every year.
LAT-401Vergil
Study of Vergil's Aeneid, with emphasis on syntax, metrics, rhetoric, and interpretation. Not offered every year.
LAT-450Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
LAT-451Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
300 North Washington Street · Gettysburg, PA 17325