CLAS7001 Problems in Greek History
This course focuses on the primary sources for some of the major events in Greek history from the archaic period to the Hellenistic period. Students will read and analyze English translations of ancient Greek literature and inscriptions. They will then immerse themselves in the historical problems raised by these sources and addressed in secondary literature.

CLAS7002 Problems in Roman History
This course covers the main problems in Roman history between the origins of Rome and the end of the second century CE and introduces students to the relevant historical methodologies. These include: the formation of the Republic, the senatorial oligarchy, the role of the citizen in the political process, the expansion of Rome in Italy and then throughout the Mediterranean and beyond, Rome's relation with her Italian allies, the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Principate, and the development of imperial administration in the provinces.

CLAS7003 Jewish and Christian History
This course covers the main problems in Jewish and Christian history and literature from the Hellenistic period to the end of the fourth century CE and introduces students to the relevant historical and literary methodologies. These problems include: the Hellenization of Jews in the diaspora, the Septuagint, the troublesome relations between the Jewish communities and the Roman authorities, the works of Philo and Josephus, the origins of Christianity, the composition of the New Testament, the early church, its organization and doctrines, the persecutions from Nero to the tetrachs, the parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity, early Greek and Latin church fathers, the development of normative and authoritarian Christianity after Constantine, and the later Greek and Latin church fathers.

CLAS7004 Proseminar

The course introduces graduate students in Classics to the core skills and toolsets necessary for the advanced study of the ancient world. Weekly meetings cover specific topics and a related set of research techniques, providing hands-on experience; the final meeting is devoted to student research projects. In sum, the meetings provide an overview of the traditional goals and aims of the three respective subdisciplines, their research tools, databases, and reference materials, reflecting on their use and limitations.

CLAS7005 Greek Sources
A survey of the major types of historical sources used to study ancient Greek history that are not otherwise covered in the graduate curriculum. The course will cover three major types of sources: documentary, historiographical and a few other literary sources. For each type, students will study significant examples, reading the sources in the original language and becoming familiar with the major scholarly debates over their interpretation.

CLAS7006 Papyrology 
Introduction to the study of Greek papyrus texts from the third century BCE to Late Antiquity. The focus will be on the palaeography of papyrus texts over time and their use as historical evidence for the Hellenistic and Roman world. Subjects include: ancient manuscript evidence for known and unknown Greek literary works; non-literary, standard Greek; public and private documents; the range of legal instruments; the economy and society of Graeco-Roman Egypt; ancient people underrepresented in other sources (women, the rural population, provincials generally).

CLAS7007 Roman Sources
A survey of the major types of historical sources used to study Roman history that are not otherwise covered in the graduate curriculum. The course will cover three major types of sources: documentary, historiographical and a few other literary sources. For each type, students will study significant examples, reading the sources in the original language and becoming familiar with the major scholarly debates over their interpretation.

CLAS7011 Prehistory 1
This is the first part of a two-part intensive survey of the prehistoric culture in the Greek world (the Aegean and Cyprus). During the course we will review theoretical and methodological approaches to Greek, Minoan, or Cypriot archaeology from the Palaeolithic period to the Middle Bronze Age.

CLAS7012 Prehistory 2
This is the second part of a two-part intensive survey of the prehistoric culture in the Greek world (the Aegean and Cyprus). This survey will cover the Late Bronze Age, the most flourishing prehistoric period in the Aegean. The emergence of the great Bronze Age palaces in Crete, the Mycenaean citadels in the Greek mainland, and economic centers in Cyprus will be studied. Economy, administration, religion, and society will be examined in the light of Linear B (the most ancient Greek) texts and the remains of the material culture. The development of trade and far-reaching foreign relations will be analyzed. We will study the art of the period (wall-painting, ceramics and seals) and identify changes and innovations. Previous and recent theories concerning relations between the Mycenaean states, Crete, and Cyprus will be critiqued and evaluated and the chronological framework for the period (critical for the reconstruction of the history) will be assessed.

CLAS7013 Greek Archaeology 1
The first of a two-part intensive survey of the material culture of the Ancient Greek world in the Iron Age and Archaic periods (ca. 1000-480 BC). The course will examine the archaeological evidence for civic, sacred, and domestic activities and will consider the development of architectural, sculptural, and ceramic forms throughout the period in order to understand how material culture both reflects and shapes cultural identity. Various methodological approaches and theoretical models will be introduced.

CLAS7014 Greek Archaeology 2
The second of a two-part intensive survey of the material culture of the Ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods (ca. 480-31 BC). The course will examine the archaeological evidence for civic, sacred, and domestic activities and will consider the development of architectural, sculptural, and ceramic forms throughout the period in order to understand how material culture both reflects and shapes cultural identity. Special attention will be paid to the definition of "Classical" Greek culture and its re-definition in the Hellenistic period. Various methodological approaches and theoretical models will be introduced.

CLAS7015 Roman Archaeology 1
This is the first of a two-part intensive survey of the material culture of the Roman world, with a focus on the first millennium BC.   We will examine the various archaeological approaches taken to topics such as the foundation and early development of Rome in the regal period; the identities of, and cultural exchanges between, the Villanovans, Etruscans, Samnites, Romans, and other Italic groups; the Roman conquest of Italy and the Mediterranean during the Republican period; and the methodological and theoretical frameworks within which Roman archaeologists have examined the art and archaeology of the first millennium BC.

CLAS7016 Roman Archaeology 2
This is the second of a two-part intensive survey of the material culture of the Roman world, with an historical focus on the first 500 years AD. We will examine the various archaeological approaches taken to topics such as the creation of an Empire; the identities of, and cultural exchanges between, the Romans and their conquered nations; life in the Roman provinces; the collapse of an empire; the rise of Christianity; and the methodological and theoretical frameworks within which Roman archaeologists have examined the art and archaeology of the first half of the first millennium AD.

CLAS7021 Historical Linguistics
Study of the linguistic nature and development of Greek and Latin. The methodology of historical linguistics is to analyze the phonology and morphology of Greek and Latin in comparison with other Indo-European languages, especially Sanskrit, in order to understand the patterns of linguistic change that produced the received forms of the languages. This course requires a graduate-level knowledge of Greek and Latin.

CLAS7022 Literary Theory
A survey of modern literary theories as they pertain to the interpretation of Greek and Latin texts. The theoretical approaches covered will include such categories as American new criticism; French structuralism, semiotics, and poststructuralism; psychoanalytic interpretation; Marxism, feminism, gender studies, and postcolonialism; Russian formulism, reader-response criticism, and narratology; new historicism and cultural studies. The course requires intensive reading in modern theoretical texts, oral and written discussion and analysis of these texts, and oral and written application to ancient authors. A graduate-level capacity in Greek and/or Latin texts is required.

CLAS7031 IT for Archaeologists
This course prepares students to use computers and information technologies effectively in archaeological research, including database design and integration with spatial data through GIS.

CLAS7032 Archaeological Theory
This course prepares students to effectively engage in theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological research.  We will examine the histories of theory and method in archaeology, outline the contributions that these approaches have made to the discipline, and apply a range of them to various case studies across Prehistoric, Greek, and Roman archaeology.

CLAS8005 Directed Readings
Reading under the supervision of a faculty member of primary sources and secondary literature on an area of historical, archaeological, or philological study not covered in a regularly scheduled course that the student could take instead but essential to the progress of the student.

CLAS8006 MA Thesis
M.A. thesis writing under the supervision of one or more faculty members. The focus will be on producing a defendable MA thesis. Subjects include: formulating a topic; researching primary and secondary source material; producing an outline; writing chapters and revising them; finalizing the typescript.

CLAS8007 PHD Dissertation
PhD dissertation research and writing under the supervision of one or more faculty members. The focus will be on producing a defendable PhD dissertation in the last semester 15CLAS8007 is taken. Subjects include: formulating a topic and an original working hypothesis; researching primary and secondary source material; producing an outline; writing chapters and revising them; supporting original conclusions with new or newly interpreted evidence; finalizing the typescript in the last semester 15CLAS8007 is taken.

CLAS8008 Museum Internship
Student will work with curators, administrators, exhibit creators, the education department, and other staff at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Projects and responsibilities will vary according to the needs of the Cincinnati Art Museum but may include object research, exhibit planning, and creation of educational programming. Three hours a week, schedule to be determined by museum staff availability.

CLAS8009 Special Topics
This course is designed as a special project for graduate students. It offers advanced study to students in the graduate program on a Classical Civilization topic chosen to suit the students’ academic needs. It is designed to improve a students’ knowledge of the topic and develop facility in conducting research. The course can count with permission by the graduate advisor/director towards graduate requirements in Classical Civilization.

CLAS8010 Archaeological Fieldwork This course offers graduate level experiential learning in the field to graduate students who require fieldwork experience in order to conduct graduate level work. It is designed to improve a student’s knowledge and skills in archaeology. The course can’t count towards graduate requirements in Classical Civilization with credit. 

CLAS9001 History Seminar
Each ancient history seminar focuses on a key period and/or region of the ancient Greek and Roman world. Students write short reports (e.g. reviews of recently published secondary literature dealing with the subject of the seminar) as well as a final paper. The latter, usually 20-25 pages long, is an in-depth investigation of a topic that is of particular interest to the student.

CLAS9011 Prehistory Seminar
This is an intensive seminar on Aegean Prehistory. Topics will change every year, but will relate to past and current theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Aegean Prehistory from 7000 until 700 BCE.  Emphasis will be given to new data and analysis of current themes in Aegean Prehistory.

CLAS9012 Greek Archaeology Seminar
An intensive seminar on a topic of Greek Archaeology from the period of ca. 1000-31 BC. The focus will change every year, but each seminar will examine a topic of Greek material culture in depth in order to understand how it relates to Greek cultural definition. Various theoretical and methodological approaches will be presented.

CLAS9013 Roman Archaeology Seminar
This course is an intensive seminar on Roman Archaeology. The topical focus will change each year, but will always relate to contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to Roman material culture from approximately 1000 BC until 500 AD.

CLAS9014 Diachronic Archaeology Seminar
This is a series of advanced graduate seminars (with topics changing from year to year) which focus on a single theoretically informed topic in the archaeology of the Mediterranean to discuss, analyze, critique, and debate its application to spatially and temporally diverse case studies. The seminars are intentionally designed to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries of Prehistoric, Greek, and Roman archaeology. Seminars will often be team-taught.

GRK6001 Advanced Drama 1
Reading of select Greek dramas from major authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander. As the first part of a comprehensive two-course sequence, Drama 1 typically covers works from earlier periods. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the literary, historical, and performance issues presented by the texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6002 Advanced Philosophical Literature
Reading of major works of Greek philosophy, e.g., Presocratics, Sophists, Plato, Aristotle. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of syntax and style, as well as discussion of the literary and philosophical issues presented by the texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6003 Early Poetry
Reading of selections from early Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of syntax, dialect, and style, as well as discussion of the literary, historical, and cultural issues presented by these texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6004 Rhetoric and Oratory
Reading of selections from the Greek oratorical and rhetorical tradition, e.g., the Attic orators, rhetorical treatises, and/or texts from the "Second Sophistic." The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of syntax and style, as well as the literary, historical, and cultural issues presented by these texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6005 Advanced Drama 2
Reading of select Greek dramas from major authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander. As the second part of a comprehensive two-course sequence, Drama 2 typically covers works from later periods. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the literary, historical, and performance issues presented by the texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6006 Historiography
Reading of Greek historiographical authors, such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of literary style, historical and intellectual settings of the works studied, and rhetorical issues that complicate communication of truth about human events. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6007 Advanced Epic 2
Reading a selection of epic authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius, Callimachus, and including didactic poems and hymns. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the generic, thematic, and stylistic elements of epic poetry.  Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK6008 Hellenistic and Imperial Literature
Readings in Hellenistic and Imperial poetry and prose, with a focus on major authors, such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes in poetry and Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and Lucian in prose. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of literary and aesthetic issues, historical and intellectual settings of the works studied, and ancient receptions of archaic and classical models. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read relevant secondary scholarship.

GRK7011 Prose Composition
This course advances knowledge of ancient Greek prose through composition of complex sentences and paragraphs.  It includes study of the historical development of prose style through analysis of exemplary passages from prose authors.

GRK8001 Remedial
This course offers intermediate study to those students entering the graduate program who require additional preparation in Greek before undertaking graduate-level work.  It is designed to improve a student's knowledge of the Greek language and develop facility in translation, in preparation for entrance into 6000-level Greek courses.  This course does not count toward the graduate requirements in Greek.

GRK8005 Directed Readings
Directed readings offer a student the opportunity to engage in self-directed work in Greek, resulting in examination by a supervising faculty member.  Permission of the graduate advisor is required.

GRK9001 Seminar
The seminar prepares students to become research scholars in topics involving Greek language and literature.  It typically includes intensive reading of Greek texts from one author or genre or on a single subject, substantial reading in secondary sources, participation in discussion of ancient texts and modern interpretation of them, and development of oral reports and research papers.

LATN6001 Rhetoric and Oratory
Reading of selections from authors such as Cicero, Quintilian, Tacitus, Pliny. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of syntax and style, as well as the literary, historical, and cultural issues presented by these texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6002 Drama
Reading of select plays and extant fragments of Roman drama, such as the works of Plautus, Terence, Seneca. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation, consideration of the literary, historical, and performance aspects of Roman drama, and exploration of the complex relationship of Roman plays to Greek models. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6003 Historiography
Reading of selections from Roman historiography, with a focus on authors such as Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, and potentially including biography, early fragmentary authors, and/or Late Antique writers. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of literary style, historical and intellectual settings of the works studied, and the relationship of Roman historiography to Greek models. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6004 Lyric, Bucolic, and Elegy
Reading of selections from Roman poetry written in non-epic modes, such as the works of Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Tibullus. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the generic, thematic, and stylistic aspects of the selected texts. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6005 The Novel and Satire
Reading of selections from Roman novel and satire. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the nature of the ancient novel and its Roman examples; the origins and development of satire as a genre; and the differing ways the two genres treat similar themes.  Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6006 Didactic Poetry
Reading one or more didactic works of authors such as Lucretius, Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the generic, thematic, and stylistic elements of Roman didactic poetry. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6007 Philosophical Literature
Reading of one or more philosophical works of authors such as Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Boethius. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation, as well as discussion of syntax and style, literary and philosophical issues presented by the texts, and the issues connected with production and reception of philosophical literature in Rome. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN6008 Epic
Reading a selection of epic authors such as Ennius, Vergil, Lucan, Statius. The course will involve idiomatic oral translation and discussion of the generic, thematic, and stylistic elements of epic poetry. Students are expected to consult standard commentaries and to read some selection of secondary scholarship.

LATN7011 Prose Composition
This course advances knowledge of Latin prose through composition of complex sentences and paragraphs.  It also includes study of the historical development of prose style through analysis of exemplary passages from various authors.

LATN8001 Remedial
This course offers intermediate study to those students entering the graduate program who require additional preparation in Latin before undertaking graduate-level work.  It is designed to improve a student's knowledge of the Latin language and develop facility in translation, in preparation for entrance into 6000-level Latin courses.  This course does not count toward the graduate requirements in Latin.

LATN8005 Directed Readings
Directed readings offer a student the opportunity to engage in independent work in Latin, resulting in examination by a supervising faculty member.  Permission of the graduate advisor is required.

LATN9001 Seminar
The seminar prepares students to become research scholars in topics involving Latin language and literature.  It typically includes intensive reading of Latin texts from one author or genre or on a single subject, substantial reading in secondary sources, participation in discussion of ancient texts and modern interpretation of them, and development of oral reports and research papers.