[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies: Courses, fall 2011
Dimitri H. Gondicas
gondicas at princeton.edu
Tue Sep 27 12:46:22 PDT 2011
Princeton University
Program in Hellenic Studies
http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/
Dear colleagues,
Below please find a listing of our course offerings, fall 2011.
Link: http://www.princeton.edu/hellenic/courses/
Best wishes,
Dimitri Gondicas
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies
COURSES OFFERED: Fall 2011
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Elementary Modern Greek I
HLS 101/MOG 101
This course is the first part of the modern Greek language sequence regularly offered every year. It aims to set the foundations for acquiring a command of spoken and written modern Greek. The pace is intensive: readings and grammar from textbook, with accompanying daily exercises, and regular language laboratory attendance. Auditors welcome with instructor's permission.
Dimitri Gondicas and Katerina Stergiopoulou Class: 11:00-11:50 am MTWTh
Classical Greek Art
ART 204 /CLA 204/HLS 204
A study of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts in the Greek world (stretching from
Italy to Asia Minor) during the Classical period (ca. 480-323 BC). Works analyzed in their social, cultural, and political contexts. Topics include the development and uses of idealism; the search for artistic personality; and the nature of stylistic change. Frequent hands-on work in precepts with objects from the Princeton University Art Museum.
Nathan T. Arrington Class: 10:00-1050 am TTh
Medieval Art in Europe
ART 205/HLS 205
Explores the conceptual character of medieval European art from late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages with an emphasis on methodological, historiographical, and theoretical issues. Using selected monuments and objects from a wide geographical range and dating from the 4th to the 14th centuries as case studies, students will familiarize with the methodological developments of art historical research. The course will particularly focus on the "anthropological turn" of medieval art history and medieval image theory.
Nino Zchomelidse Lecture: 1:30-2:20 pm MW
Topics in Greek Literature: Fiction and Fantasy
CLG 310 /HLS 311
In this seminar-style course we will read Greek fiction from the fantastic to the pastoral, studying examples of the Greek novel in the literary and cultural context of the early centuries CE. Students will read substantial portions of Lucian's ([A True History]), Chariton's ([Chaereas and Callirhoe]), and Longus' ([Daphnis and Chloe]) in Greek. To fill out our picture of the literary landscape we will read selections from other Greek novels in English translation. Some secondary readings will be assigned.
Janet D. Downie Class: 11:00-12:20 MW
Topics in Ancient History: Ancient Greek Tyranny
CLA 327 /HIS 327 /HLS 327
This course introduces students to the evidence on tyranny as a political phenomenon of archaic Greek history while also investigating tyranny from a sociological perspective and in the framework of the imaginaire of the Greeks. The first part of the course considers the best documented archaic tyrannies, addressing issues like the tyrant's rise to power, the foundations of his regime, his role in the polis' economy, and his relations with the different groups. The second part examines issues such as the legitimacy of tyrannical power and the cluster of representations associated with the social role of the tyrant.
Nino Luraghi Class: 11:00 am-12:20 MW
Studies in the Classical Tradition: Homer after Homer
CLA 335 /HLS 335
"A man who has not read Homer," observed the English essayist Walter Bagehot, "is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea." This course will survey how the otherwise rarefied poetry of the Iliad and Odyssey acquired and sustained its legacy as indispensable "classics" over the millennia which followed their origins in archaic Greece; how epics composed in a remote ancient poetic language about singular Greek heroes achieving equally singular feats could serve as muse to ancient, mediaeval, and modern societies.
Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Class: 1:30-2:50 pm TTh
Seminar Medieval Art
ART 430 /HLS 430 /MED 430
The "Two Romes" addresses the idea of Rome as the center of the civilized world. We begin with the historical significance of the Roman Empire before Constantine I, explore the transfer of Roman authority to his new capital, Constantinople, and compare their parallel lives until the 15th c. How did the Roman heritage affect architecture, urbanism, and art in the two cities? As we try to reconstruct the appearance of the two cities, we discuss concepts behind political and religious leadership as they intersect with the power of the arts and the self-referential character of the cities, both obsessed with their soteriological mission.
Jelena Trkulja, Nino Zchomelidse Class: 7:30-10:20 pm T
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800
NES 437/HIS 337/HLS 337
This course surveys the history of the world's most enduring Islamic state, the Ottoman Empire. With its beginnings in the fourteenth century, it lasted into the early years of the last century. At its height it ruled over much of the Mediterranean as well as Central Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and today's Turkey.
Heath W. Lowry Class: 1:30-2:50 pm TTh
GRADUATE COURSES
Problems in Byzantine History:
Byzantium and the Crusades 1096-1204
HIS 542/HLS 542
The history of relations between the Byzantine empire and western and central Europe and the papacy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Byzantine and western church, the cultural relations between Greek east and Latin west, the changing international economic environment, as well as the changing political and military context and the role of the Turks in the waning Abbasid Caliphate will all be considered in the light of the relevant sources, both written and non-written, and the modern literature.
John Haldon Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm T
Problems in Ancient History:
Weak Belief, Differing Belief, Unbelief. Alexandria as a Case Study
CLA 547 /PAW 503
This is an interdisciplinary seminar on shades of belief, with the Egyptian city of Alexandria as case study. Taking a historical and social-political approach, the seminar will investigate and contextualize interactions between various religious groups and communities in the city: Egyptians, Greeks, Pagans, Jews and Christians.
Marc Domingo Gygax, AnneMarie Luijendijk Class: 1:30-4:20 T
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Courses of Interest - Fall 2011
Introduction to the History of Art: Ancient to Medieval
ART 100
Nathan Arrington
Lecture: 10:00-10:50 am MW
Romanticism and the Age of Revolution
ENG 340
S. Wolfson
Seminar: 11:00 am-12:20 pm MW
Urbanism and the City of Modernity: 1870-1970
ARC 550
M. C. Boyer
Class: 10:00 am-12:50 T
Special Studies in Medieval Literature: The Dialectic: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
ENG 511
Andrew Cole
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 Th
Classical Mythology
CLA 212/HUM 212
Janet D. Downie
Lecture: 11:00-11:50 am TTh
Europe from Antiquity to 1700
HIS 211
A. Grafton
Lecture: 11:00-11:50 am MW
The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337
CLA 219 /HIS 219
Edward J. Champlin
Class: 11:00 am-11:50 MW
A History of the World since 1300
HIS 201
Jeremy I. Adelman
Class: 10:00 am-10:50 TTh
Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine: From Hippocrates to Galen
CLA 345
Brooke A. Holmes
Class: 3:00 pm-4:20 TTh
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts
HUM 216
Sarah M. Anderson, Andrew M. Feldherr, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Joel B. Lande, P. A. Sitney
Class: 11:00 am-11:50 TWTh, Class: 1:30 pm-2:50 TTh, Class: 3:00 pm-4:20 TTh, Class: 3:00 pm-4:20 TTh
Problems in Greek Literature : Dionysus
CLA 514
Christian Wildberg
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 Th Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: History, Philosophy, and Religion
HUM 217
S. Anderson, A. Feldherr, D. Heller-Roazen, J. Lande, P.A. Sitney
Lecture: TBA
Problems in Greek History : The Art of Writing History in Classical Greece
CLA 521
Michael A. Flower
Class: 9:00 am-11:50 Th
Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages
NES 220/HIS 220/JDS 220
M. Cohen
Class: 1:30-2:50 pm MW
Beginner's Greek: Greek Grammar
CLG 101
Staff
Class: 10:00-10:50 am MTWTh
Problems in Early Ottoman History
NES 571
H. Lowry
Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm W
Socrates
CLG 105
Christian Wildberg
Class 1: 9:00-9:50 am MTWTh, Class 2: 12:30-1:20 pm MTWTh
Comparative Transformations in the Near East and Eurasia
NES 597
M. Reynolds
Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm W
Tragic Drama
CLG 213
Brooke A. Holmes
Class: 11:00 am-12:20 TTh
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
PHI 205 /CLA 205
Hendrik Lorenz
Class: 10:00 am-10:50 MW
Greek Historians: Thucydides
CLG 304
Nino Luraghi
Class: 11:00 am-12:20 TTh
Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life
PHI 515
John M. Cooper, Hendrik Lorenz
Class: 12:15 pm-3:05 T
Classical Roots of Western Literature
COM 205/HUM 205
D. Heller-Roazen
Lecture: 12:30-1:20 pm MW
Plato and His Predecessors
PHI 300
Benjamin C. Morrison
Lecture: 10:00-10:50 am MW
"What is Enlightenment?”: Defining the Human
COM 316
Claudia Joan Brodsky
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 M
Ancient and Medieval Political Theory
POL 301/CLA 301
M. Lane
Lecture: 9:00-9:50 am MW
The Renaissance : Loss, Ruin, and the Presence of the Past
COM 547
Leonard Barkan
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 W
Seminar in Comparative Politics: Europe and the World
POL 434
Ezra N. Suleiman
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 M
Topics in Country and Regional Economics: Economics of the European Union and Economies in Europe
ECO 372/EPS 342
S. Weyerbrock
Lecture: 11:00 am-12:20 pm MW
Studies in Greco-Roman Religions: Genres of Rabbinic Literature
REL 504
P. Schӓfer
Seminar: 10:00-1:00 pm Th
European Economic History
ECO 378 /EPS 343
Staff
Class: 12:30 pm-1:20 MW
Senior Seminar in Translation and Intercultural Communication
TRA 400/COM 409
David M. Bellos
Seminar: 1:30-4:20 pm M
Turning Points in European Culture
ECS 301 /EPS 301
Anson G. Rabinbach
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 W
Thinking Translation: Language Transfer and Cultural Communication
TRA 200/COM 209
Sandra L. Bermann
Lecture: 11:00 am-12:20 pm T
Transnational Modernism
ECS 317 /COM 317
Benjamin Conisbee Baer
Class: 1:30 pm-4:20 Th
Democracy
WWS 300
N. McCarty, C. Boix
Lecture: 10:00-10:50 am TTh
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