Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.

An examination of ancient political theory in its social and philosophical context. Topics will include constitutional theory, the origins and legitimation of government, ethics and politics, the regulation of private life, the rule of law, and the cosmopolis. Authors will include the Sophists, Plato (Republic, Laws, Statesman), Aristotle (Politics), Cicero (Republic and Laws), Polybius, Dio of Prusa (On Kingship, Borysthenic Oration), and Augustine (City of God).

A survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, with emphasis on the content and treatment of myth in classical authors: Aeschylus, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Livy, Ovid, Sophocles, Vergil.

For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar with reading and writing of simple Attic prose.

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK V1201 or V1202).

Prerequisites: GREK V1101-1102 or the equivalent.

Selections form Attic prose.

Prerequisites: GREK V1201-V1202 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2008: Lucian

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: GREK V1201 and V1202 or their equivalent.

Since the content of the course changes from year to year, it may be taken in consecutive years. Topic for 2007-2008: Plato

Prerequisites: At least two terms of Greek at the 3000 level or higher.

Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.

Prerequisites: At least four terms of Greek, or the equivalent.

An intensive review of Greek syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Attic Greek.

The same course as Greek V1101, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Greek V1101-V1102 or the equivalent.

The same course as Greek V1201, on a noncredit basis.

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101

A continuation of LATN V1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

Designed to cover all of Latin grammar and syntax in one semester in order to prepare the student to enter LATN V1201 or V1202.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101-V1102, or LATN V1121, or the equivalent.

Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.

Prerequisites: LATN V1201 or the equivalent.

Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

Prerequisites: LATN V1202 or the equivalent.

Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2008-2009: Sallust.

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: At least two terms of Latin at the 3000 level or higher.

Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.

The same course as Latin V1101, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Latin V1102, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Latin V1120, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Latin V1121, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Latin V1101-V1102 or Latin V1121, or the equivalent.

The same course as Latin V1201, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Latin V1101-V1102 or Latin V1121, or the equivalent.

The same course as Latin V1202, on a noncredit basis.

Introduction to modern Greek language and culture. Designed for students wishing to learn the skills necessary to read modern Greek texts of moderate difficulty and converse on a wide range of topics. Students explore modern Greece's cultural landscape from "parea" to poetry to political graffiti. Special attention is paid to general problems of foreign language study and translation.

Prerequisites: GRKM V1101-V1102 or the equivalent.

This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the basic grammar and syntax of modern Greek language and can communicate at an elementary level. Using films, newspapers, and popular songs, students engage the finer points of Greek grammar and syntax and enrich their vocabulary. Emphasis is given to writing, whether in the form of film and book reviews or essays on particular topics taken from a selection of second year textbooks.

This course introduces students to key aspects of Modern Greek culture as well as to faculty at Columbia working on Greece in different departments. Readings focus on moments when Greece's position at the crossroads between East and West become comparatively relevant to particular disciplines. Students study works by poets, novelists, filmmakers, literary critics, historians, anthropologists and architects; Columbia faculty and invited guests then discuss their own scholarship in these fields. Texts are available in both English and Greek. The course can be taken with a one-credit extra hour tutorial for advanced students reading materials in Greek.

This course stages an imaginary dialogue between certain Greek poets, whose work spans the 20th century, and poets of the same era from other parts of the world, for whom Greek motifs are crucial to their poetic sensibility. These motifs may pertain to both ancient and modern figures of Hellenism, but even when the figures are recognizably ancient the assumption is that they extend themselves to an outmaneuverable modernity. Indeed, by staging this dialogue, the course will engage in interrogations of modernity and, moreover, the specific ways in which figures of modernity and figures of Hellenism are entwined. At the same time, we will pay close attention to different articulations of poi?sis, especially as they pertain to a certain politics. The literary historical sphere spans the range of early modernism to postmodernism and postcolonialism, as well as specific poetic-political sensibilities, whether aestheticist or Marxist, feminist or queer.

The same course as Modern Greek V1101, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Modern Greek V1101-V1102 or the equivalent.

The same course as Modern Greek V1201, on a noncredit basis.

Considers cinematic representations of the ancient Mediterranean world, from early silent films to movies from the present day. Explores films that purport to represent historical events (such as Gladiator) and cinematic versions of ancient texts (Pasolini's Medea). Readings include ancient literature and modern criticism.

Overview of Greek and Roman literature. Close analysis of selected texts from the major genres accompanied by lectures on literary history. Topics include the context out of which the genres arose, the suitability of various modern critical approaches to the ancient texts, the problem of translation, and the transmission of the classical authors and their influence on modern literature.

For students who have never studied Greek. An intensive study of grammar with reading and writing of simple Attic prose.

Prerequisites: GREK V1101 or the equivalent, or the permission of the instructor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Continuation of grammar study begun in GREK V1101; selections from Attic prose.

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK V1201 or V1202).

Prerequisites: GREK V1101-1102 or the equivalent.

Selections form Attic prose.

Prerequisites: GREK V1101-V1102 or GREK V1121 or the equivalent.

Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter, and to the historical background of Homer.

Prerequisites: GREK V1201-V1202 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2006-2007: Aristophanes

Prerequisites: GREK V1201-V1202 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2008: Sophocles

Prerequisites: Greek V1101 or the equivalent, or instructor's permission or the director of undergraduate studies.

The same course as Greek V1102, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Greek V1121, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Greek V1121 or Greek V1201, or the equivalent.

The same course as Greek V1202, on a noncredit basis.

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101

A continuation of LATN V1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

Designed to cover all of Latin grammar and syntax in one semester in order to prepare the student to enter LATN V1201 or V1202.

Prerequisites: LATN V1101-V1102, or LATN V1121, or the equivalent.

Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.

Prerequisites: LATN V1201 or the equivalent.

Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2008: Livy

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent.

Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2007-2007: Elegy

Prerequisites: At least two terms of Latin at the 3000 level or higher.

Latin literature from Augustus to 600 C.E.

The same course as Latin V1101, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Latin V1102, on a noncredit basis.

The same course as Latin V1121, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Latin V1101-V1102 or Latin V1121, or the equivalent.

The same course as Latin V1201, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Latin V1101-V1102 or Latin V1121, or the equivalent.

The same course as Latin V1202, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: GRKM V1101 or the equivalent.

Continuation of GRKM V1101. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture. Emphasis on speaking, writing, basic grammar, syntax and cross-cultural analysis.

Prerequisites: GRKM V1201 or the equivalent.

Continuation of GRKM V1201. Students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary.

This course introduces students to major literary, cultural, and political issues in modern Greece through Greek film. Discussion of films are placed alongside weekly readings in the novel, history, politics, film criticism. All films have English subtitles. There will be a Greek and English section. Films by Angelopoulos, Cacoyannis, Voulgaris, Marketaki, Koundouros, Costa-Gavras, Giannaris, Papatakis, and Dassin.

This course introduces students to the rich tradition of literature about and by Greeks in America over the past century, exploring questions of ethnic identity, gender and language. Students examine how contemporary debates in diaspora studies and translation theory can inform each other and how both, in turn, can inform a discussion of the writing of the Greek American experience in histories, novels, poetry, travel literature, performance art and films. Authors include Kazan, Gage, Broumas, Spanidou, Galas, Selz, Papandreou, and Petrakis.

The same course as Modern Green V1102, on a noncredit basis.

Prerequisites: Modern Greek V1201 or the equivalent.

The same course as Modern Greek V1202, on a noncredit basis.