DESCRIPTION:
CLASSICS is an inter-disciplinary field of study which comprises all areas of classical antiquity: literature, history, art and archaeology, philosophy and religion. As such, it focuses not just on the classical languages and literatures but also on material culture, on economic, political, social, and intellectual history, on philosophy, religion, and myth.
The department provides both specialized training for those who wish to enter graduate school in preparation for a career in scholarship, and a broad liberal education for those with more general interests. The Department offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees. There are currently over 100 graduate and undergraduate students pursuing major degree programs in Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Latin Language and Literature, and Classical Civilization.
The department offers courses, both in Hebrew and in the original languages, that treat the whole range of Greek and Roman civilization, from Aegean prehistory to late antiquity. All courses in Classics emphasize critical thinking, careful analysis and effective speaking and writing skills, and the students find themselves in a personable Department whose advisers will work with each student to help him or her to find the classes best suited to their interests and their career goals.
The faculty in Classics is distinguished in teaching and research. Several members of the faculty have received national and international grants and awards. The Department boasts special strengths in Greek epic tradition; the comic theater of Greece and Rome; ancient literary criticism; ancient Greek logic and mathematics; social history of the Greek polis; Greek and Roman historiography; poetry of the Age of Augustus; Greek and Roman numismatics; Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine history; Jewish history and epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
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DEPARTMENT ID:
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10-13611
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on 2006/06/01 12:30:44 GMT-6
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FACULTY/DEPARTMENT MEMBERS:
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POSITION
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CTNS
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Zagagi, Netta
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The comic theatre of Greece and Rome (Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence); the Satyr play; Greek and Roman love literature; Hellenistic epigram; bucolic poetry; Greek and Roman popular morality; Athenian and Roman law and literature.
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