GREK 101/Classical Greek I

Sec. 01

Bowen

11:00 AM

TF

This course is the first part of a two-semester introduction to classical Greek that aims at allowing students to read classical Greek texts as quickly as possible. The focus of the course is the vocabulary and grammar of ancient Greek, but linguistic and cultural history will also be treated.

GREK 201/Intermediate Greek

Sec. 01

Bowen

9:30 AM

TF

[Prerequisite: GREK 102 or equivalent.]

This course concentrates on the translation and appreciation of Plato’s Apology and provides a thorough review of GREK 101 and 102.

LATN 101/Latin 1

Sec. 01

Pollio

12:30 PM

MR

Sec. 02

Pollio

2:00 PM

TF

[Intellectual Skills: Language]

This course is the first part of a two-semester introduction to classical Latin that aims at allowing students to read classical Latin texts as quickly as possible. The focus of the course is vocabulary and grammar, but linguistic and cultural history will also be treated.

LATN 201/Intermediate Latin

Sec. 01

Pollio

12:30 PM

TF

[Intellectual Skills: Language]

This course concentrates on the translation and appreciation of Cicero’s In Catilinam I and II and selections from the poetry of Catullus.

ART 300/Ancient and Classical Art

Sec. 01

Joyce

12:30 PM

TF

This course will deal with major monuments of ancient and classical architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts from Archaic Greek times until the end of the Roman period. The emphasis will be on the art created for or by the dominant cultural centers. Major themes will include the changing roles of art and architecture over time. The development of technologies and media that allow different cultures to express different meanings in their artistic production will also be emphasized, as will the political and social roles of Greek and Roman art and architecture.

CLAS 250/Introduction to Greek Mythology

Sec. 01

Gruen

2:00 PM

MR

Sec. 02

Gruen

3:30 PM

MR

[Perspectives on the World: Literature, Western]

This course is an introduction to ancient Greek mythology through primary texts such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Ajax, et al. We shall focus on the Trojan War cycle of myths and its greatest heroes in order to understand how the ancient Greeks explored important aspects of their society through literature that ostensibly presents mythological events and characters. Attention is also given to visual representations of myth in sculpture and on vases and to differentiating the ancient Greek concept of “myth” from our own.

HIST 204/Late Antiquity

Sec. 01

Karras

9:30 AM

MR

Sec. 02

Karras

2:00 PM

MR

[Perspectives on the World: History, Western]

This course traces the breakdown of the unity of the classical Mediterranean world as the African, Asian, and European hinterlands reacted against the Greco-Roman core. The emergence of culturally diverse elements, their stabilization by c. 1000 C.E., and the relationships among them are stressed.

HIST 304/History of the Roman Empire

Sec. 01

Karras

11:00 AM

TF

This course focuses on the development of the imperial system beginning with the Augustan Settlement and tracing the evolution of the imperial system.

HIST 455/Reading Seminar: Alexander and The Hellenistic Age

Sec. 01

Karras

2:00 PM

T

This course is a study of the influence of Alexander on the successor kingdoms.

HONR 350/Tpc: Homer’s Odyssey in Art and Literature

Sec. 02

Riccardi/Pollio

2:00 PM

MR

This course will examine works of visual art and literature that relied on Homer’s Odyssey as a major source of inspiration. It will correlate with an exhibition entitled Homer’s Odyssey that will be on display in TCNJ’s art gallery in October and November. The course will include reading of the original text in translation and the examination of various works from ancient Greece to the present day, with special attention paid to the timeless appeal of Odysseus’ adventures as they developed in the visual and literary tradition.

LIT 231/Perspectives on World Literature to 1800

Sec. 01

Steinberg

11:00 AM

MR

Sec. 02

Steinberg

2:00 PM

MR

[Perspectives on the World: Literature, Western]

In this course, we will focus on a pivotal literary text of European literature before 1800 – Virgil’s Aeneid. Around this pivotal text, the course will explore literary and historical relations – the textual “ancestors” and “progeny” that influenced or rewrote the Aeneid, as well as the philological, social, and political contexts that surrounded Virgil’s text. Readings will include Homer, Aeschylus, 2 Maccabees, Virgil, Ovid, Livy, St. Paul of Tarsus, Dante, and Milton, as well as selections from historians writing about the bath houses, gladiators, cults, architecture, soldiers, and women of Virgil’s Rome.

PHIL 301/Seminar in Ancient Philosophy

Sec. 01

Sisko

11:00 AM

TF

The primary text for this course is De Anima (On the Soul). This is a short text, but an important one. We shall work our way through De Anima slowly and carefully. We shall focus on Aristotle’s treatment of soul, perception, thought and desire. One key topic shall be the metaphysical status of human intellect. (Does Aristotle think that the mind is an immaterial substance? And if so, why?) We shall read a broad sampling of secondary literature on De Anima. Students shall make presentations on the secondary literature. At the beginning of the quarter, we shall read selections from the Categories, Posterior, Analytics, Physics, Metaphysics and Parts of Animals in order to gain awareness of background material that is assumed in De Anima. Towards the end of the semester, we shall read parts of the Nicomachean Ethics. These readings shall focus on those aspects of Aristotle’s ethical theory that are linked in substantive ways to his psychological theory.