Classical Studies at Brandeis
Brandeis University
Classical Studies Department
Hades and Persephone Augustus Athens Owl Coin Comic Mask

Course Offerings Spring 2008



Course Course Description Block Days, Time Room Instructor
CLAS 134B The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome P TF, 3-430 Pollack 1 Koloski-Ostrow
CLAS 145B
sec. 1		 Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology: Roman Technology and Art (or How to Think Like the Romans) H TF, 1030-12 Abelson 131 Koloski-Ostrow & Meyer
CLAS 145B
sec. 2		 Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology:
Pan-Hellenic Sanctuaries and the City-State in Ancient Greece: from the Classical to the Hellenistic Period
(new topic!)		 J TF 12-130 Rabb 345 Dhuga
CLAS 170A Classical Mythology L MW, 330-5 Lown 2 Muellner
CLAS 181B The Greeks and Their Dances (new course!) N TF, 130-3 Rabb 345 Visvardi
GRK 10A Beginning Ancient Greek D MWR, 11-12 Olin-Sang 112 Muellner
GRK 30A Intermediate Ancient Greek: Literature D MWR, 11-12 Rabb 345 Walker
GRK 120B Greek Prose Authors (this term reading "Selections from Herodotus' Histories") E MWR, 12-1 Rabb 335 Muellner
LAT 20A Continuing Latin C MWR, 10-11 Olin-Sang 104 Johnston
LAT 110B Advanced Latin Composition F MWR, 1-2 Olin-Sang 104 Johnston
USEM 9B Going to Hell: Journeys to the Underworld K MW, 2-330 Shiffman 125 Walker



For more information, please see the Brandeis University Bulletin.




Photographs: [left] Hades abducting Persephone, fragment, terracotta relief, Greek, 470-460 BCE, Locri, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photographic Credit: Paula Chabot, 2000) by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/paula_chabot/hadespersephone.jpg; [second from left] Augustus, marble statue, Prima Porta, (Photographic credit: Leslie Flood), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/flood_images/prima.porta.jpg; [second from right] Owl & Olive Branch, silver coin of Athens, c. 450 B.C.E., depicting these symbols of the city on one side and the head of helmeted Athena on the other, The British Museum (Photographic credit: Barbara McManus, 2001), by courtesy of the vRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/athensowlcoin2.jpg; [right] Comic Mask, fragment, mosaic, Roman, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (Photographic Credit: R. Scaife), by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/~rscaife/images/106b.jpg.


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Department of Classical Studies, 2008.