• Introduction to Greek Literature: Concepts of the Hero in the Archaic Period
• Introduction to Greek Literature: Concepts of the Hero in the Classical Period
• Greek Tragedy
• Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology
• The Classical Tradition in Western Art and Architecture
• Related Courses

CLAS E-114/W Introduction to Greek Literature: Concepts of the Hero in the Archaic Period (10028)
Gregory Nagy, PhD, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $395, graduate credit $1,105. Wednesday 5:30-7:30 pm. Boylston Hall 105. Fall term.

Translated readings of Homer, Hesiod, and the poets of Greek lyric. Students will be advised on strategies of presentation, especially in the first and final paragraphs.

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CLAS E-115/W Introduction to Greek Literature: Concepts of the Hero in the Classical Period (20024)
Gregory Nagy, PhD, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Writing-intensive course. 4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $395, graduate credit $1,105. Wednesday 5:30-7:30 pm. Harvard Hall 202. Spring term.

Translated readings of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, and Plato. Students will be advised on strategies of presentation, especially in the first and final paragraphs. CLAS E-115/W is designed in such a way that it may be taken without CLAS E-114/W as a prerequisite.

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CLAS E-120 Greek Tragedy (11465)
Charles P. Segal, PhD, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $395, graduate credit $1,105. Monday 7:35-9:35 pm. Sever Hall 214. Fall term.

In this course we shall study a large portion of the extant tragedies of classical Greece. We shall read translated works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as dramatic, poetic, and cultural texts. We shall pay special attention to tragedy's use of myth, its conception of self and society, and its representation of the gods, gender roles, sexuality, violence, and the passions.

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CLAS E-130 Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology (11464)
David Gordon Mitten, PhD, James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Harvard University.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $395, graduate credit $1,105. Tuesday 5:30-7:30 pm. Sackler Museum Auditorium. Students need proof of registration to be admitted to the Sackler Museum. Fall term.

This course will explore how the Greeks developed and used their visual arts, including architecture, sculpture, painting on walls and ceramics, metalwork, and coins from the Late Bronze Age through the beginning of the Roman Empire (circa 1500 to 21 BCE). We will consider the nature of man and the gods, society (Athens, Sparta, and other city-states), the meaning of life and death, and relationships between visual arts and Greek literature.

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CLAS E-135 The Classical Tradition in Western Art and Architecture (20025)
E. Fred Yalouris, DPhil.
4 units. Noncredit $250, undergraduate credit $395, graduate credit $1,105. Wednesday 7:35-9:35 pm. Sever Hall 213. Spring term.

Greek and Roman art and architecture are all around us: in our public buildings and monuments; in the design of interiors, utensils, furniture, and decorative arts; in the styling and subject matter of great paintings and sculpture. This course will examine the classical language of architecture and various works of art. Students will be challenged to look at certain buildings and art forms and see the classical elements that have influenced many of the great artistic periods of Western civilization, including the Renaissance, Georgian, neoclassical, and various nineteenth- and twentieth- century movements.

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• HIST E-1072 The Roman World
• MATH E-6 Quantitative Reasoning: Mathematics and the Greeks