Open to first-year students. Women in Antiquity. The course also examines female cults and divinities, and myths of rebellion, transsexuality, matriarchies, and monsters. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 35.
Students also read and discuss a representative selection of modern criticism on Greek tragedy.
Open to first-year students. Explorations in Greek Prose. This course introduces the student to prose literature in the original Greek, and it assumes a reading knowledge of the language. It examines the style and rhetorical ploys of the writers, and heightens the student's awareness of the use and abuse of public discourse. It also includes class presentations and discussions on the social and political outlook of these writers, who created the imaginary past and political ideology of every democracy since that time.