Movie Theaters of War

CMS 133 / RFSS 133

In the Iliad, Homer transformed the Trojan War into a spectacle. Today, the popularity of war movies reveals how deeply these ancient notions of war as spectacle have shaped our understanding of armed conflict. This course analyzes war films through the lens of pre-modern treatments of war as specta…

Public Classics

CMSS 11

Why does a niche academic discipline like classical studies loom so large in modern and contemporary public discourses? This course explores the influences that the Greco-Roman past has on our world outside the classroom. We will look at how the modern West has intentionally turned to antiquity to c…

Ancient Greek History

CMS 112 / HIST 112

This course examines Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander. It focuses on the geographical breadth and temporal extent of "Ancient Greece," and how that considerable space and time were negotiated and understood by the Greeks themselves. In such a far-flung world, extending from Sicily to Ionia, f…

Violence, Gender, and the Social Contract in Ancient Greece

GRK 203

We explore the causes and consequences of violence among men and male gods, between men and women, and between parents and children. Readings may include Hesiod’s Theogony, Homeric Hymns, Attic orations, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Euripides’ Heracles Raging, or his Medea, etc. Recommended Ba…