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Your search for courses · during 24FA, 25WI, 25SP · taught by apantazopoulou · returned 6 results
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CLAS 116 Greek Drama in Performance 6 credits
What is drama? When and where were the first systematic theatrical performances put on? What can Athenian tragedies and comedies teach us about the classical world and today’s societies? This course will explore the always-relevant world of Ancient Greek theater, its history and development, through the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. We will decode the structure and content of Greek tragedies and comedies, ponder their place in the Athenian society and the modern world, and investigate the role of both ancient and contemporary productions in addressing critical questions on the construction and performance of individual and communal identities.
- Fall 2024
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CLAS 116.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 135 Ancient World in Popular Culture 6 credits
From fantasy novels, like Percy Jackson, to superhero films (Wonder Woman) to viral hashtags on social-media, the ancient world has a constant presence in our modern world. Greco-Roman history, myths, stories, and literature are still actively used, but also misused, within the framework of “western” and global culture. In this course, we will discuss how Classical antiquity has been received, interpreted, or appropriated in the twenty-first century through different popular media, such as movies, TV shows, comic books, video games, and social-media, in order to gain a better understanding of what the ancient world can tell us about the modern.
- Winter 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CLAS 135.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GRK 101 Elementary Greek 6 credits
From the triceratops (“three-horned-face”) to the antarctic (“opposite-the-bear-constellation”), ancient Greek has left traces in our language, literature (epic, tragedy, comedy), ways of organizing knowledge (philosophy, history, physics), and society (democracy, oligarchy, autocracy). It gives access to original texts from ancient Greece, early Christianity, and the Byzantine Empire, not to mention modern scientific terminology. In Greek 101 students will develop knowledge of basic vocabulary and grammar, and will begin reading short passages of prose and poetry. The class will meet five days a week.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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Not open to students whose previous Greek language experience exceeds the requirements of GRK 101.
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GRK 101.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 9:50am-11:00am
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 302 9:30am-10:35am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 9:40am-10:40am
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GRK 103 Greek Prose 6 credits
Selected prose readings. The course will emphasize review of grammar and include Greek composition.
- Fall 2024
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): GRK 102 – Intermediate Greek with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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GRK 103.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:30am-10:35am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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GRK 226 Heroes and Monsters in Ancient Greek Thought 6 credits
Greek literature abounds in stories of hostile encounters between heroes and monsters. Perseus vs. Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur, Bellerophon vs. the Chimera are only a few of these stories that feature larger-than-life individuals who confront otherworldly creatures. But why is there such a fascination in the Greek mind? In this course, we will examine such stories in the original Greek, looking at authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and Lucian, and we will discuss what the socio-cultural constructions of the hero and the monster show us about what it means to be human both in antiquity and in modern times.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): GRK 204 – Intermediate Greek Prose and Poetry with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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GRK 226.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 9:40am-10:40am
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LATN 240 The Tortured Poets: Love Poetry from Catullus to Taylor Swift 6 credits
Poetry has always offered people a way to express their feelings and connect to their emotions, especially those related to love. From the thrill of new romance to the pain of heartbreak, poets find a haven in their art to declare their conflicting feelings and explore the ecstasy of mutual love or the torture of unrequited love. In this course, we will focus on Roman love/elegiac poetry (poems by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid) in their original language and cultural context, while exploring themes and tropes that define the genre and still inspire modern love poetry and songs.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): LATN 204 – Intermediate Latin Prose and Poetry with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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LATN 240.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:10pm-2:10pm