Check out the tabs below to see what courses will be offered by the Department of Classics in the Autumn 2025 semester.
Courses are subject to change - always check BuckeyeLink for the most updated list of courses.
CLAS 1101/1101H - Introduction to Classical Literature
Introductory survey of the Greek and Roman achievement in literature and its contribution to Western thought; selected readings in English translation in major authors from Homer to Boethius.
GEN Foundations: Literary, Visual and Performing Arts
GEL Literature, Diversity: Global Studies
CLAS 2201/2201H - Classical Civilization: Greece
A survey of ancient Greek civilization, concentrating upon important facets of literature, history, art, and archaeology.
GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies
GEL Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
CLAS 2202/2202H - Classical Civilization: Rome
A survey of the civilization of ancient Rome, concentrating upon important facets of literature, history, art, and archaeology.
GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies
GEL Cultures and Ideas, Diversity: Global Studies
CLAS 2205 - Sports and Spectacles in the Ancient World
The history and social role of gymnastic and athletic competition in Greece and Rome. The evolution of their modern revivals.
GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies
GEL Cultures and Ideas
CLAS 2220/2220H - Classical Mythology
Personalities and attributes of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, their mythology and its influence on Western culture.
GEN Foundations: Literary, Visual and Performing Arts
GEL Literature, Diversity: Global Studies
CLAS 2301 - Classical Archaeology
Introduction to the principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites.
GEL Cultures and Ideas
GEL Diversity: Global Studies
GEL Historical Study
GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies
CLAS 3205 - What is Race? Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present
This course introduces students to ancient Greek and Roman ideas of race, ethnicity, and gender, to the intersections between these ideas in the thought and lived experience of ancient peoples, to how these ideas were used, remade, and redeployed in early modernity and afterward, and to the key role of the ancient Mediterranean in modern racist ideologies.
GEN Foundations: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity
CLAS 3217 - Family, Household, and Kinship in the Ancient World
This upper-level course focuses on the family as a foundational unit of ancient Mediterranean societies. Through a survey of primary and secondary literature, the students will engage with the evolution of familial networks from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, with a focus on the Greco-Roman world.
GEN Themes: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations
CLAS 3223 - The Later Roman Empire
An advanced survey of Rome's history in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries with focus on themes of decline, fall, and transformation.
GEL Historical Study
GEN Themes: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations
CLAS 6002 - Classics Professionalization Seminar
Introduction to the academic profession of Classics and its culture.
CLAS 7893 - Graduate Seminar on Religion and Mythology of the Ancient World
Graduate research seminar on topics that span across Greek and Latin (and occasionally other ancient Mediterranean) texts and cultures.
Greek 1101 - Elementary Ancient Greek
Introduction to the language of the ancient Greek authors and the New Testament. Not open to students with 3 or more years of study in this language in high school, except by permission of department.
GEL Foreign Language
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GREEK 1103 - Intermediate Ancient Greek II
Intermediate Ancient Greek II.
GEL Foreign Language
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GREEK 2102 - Homer
Selected readings from the Iliad or Odyssey.
GREEK 5011- Greek Epic
Readings from Greek epic poets such as Homer, Hesiod, or Apollonius of Rhodes.
GREEK 6891 - Greek Survey I: Prose
A graduate course on writing Greek prose.
LATIN 1101.01 - Elementary Latin I
Elementary level introduction to the Latin language; the course begins the study of grammar and vocabulary.
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GEL Foreign Language
LATIN 1102.01 - Intermediate Latin I
Completion of Latin grammar and syntax; introduction to reading of Latin authors.
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GEL Foreign Language
LATIN 1103 - Intermediate Latin II
This course concludes the GE language sequence for Latin, and prepares you for further literary study in Latin literature courses at the 2000-level and above. The primary goal is to achieve Latin reading proficiency by exploring a range of Roman authors and literary styles and to consolidate your knowledge of grammar and syntax.
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GEL Foreign Language
LATIN 2101 - Cicero
Readings from Cicero's works, mainly the orations.
LATIN 2104 - Ovid
Readings from Ovid's narrative poetry (Metamorphoses and Fasti).
LATIN 5030 - Special Topics in Latin Literature
Study of a topic in Roman literature with extensive original readings.
LATIN 6894 - Latin Pedagogy
An introduction to the teaching of Latin, its methods and techniques.
LATIN 7890 - Seminar on Latin Literature and Roman Culture
(Topic: Seneca's De Ira)
Research seminar on a topic of Latin literature and Roman culture.
MDRNGRK 1101 - Elementary Modern Greek
Introduces students to the language, covering the basic skills of reading, understanding and writing.
GEL Foreign Language
GEN Foundations: World Languages
MDRNGRK 1103 - Intermediate Modern Greek II
Continues the 1101-1102 sequence. The course helps students expand their vocabulary and improve their fluency in speaking the language.
GEN Foundations: World Languages
GEL Foreign Language
MDRNGRK 3710 - Modern Greek Literature in Translation
Review of the Modern Greek literary tradition of the last two centuries through representative works and from a theoretical perspective.
MDRNGRK 4002 - Advanced Modern Greek II
Completes the language sequence. Students develop translation skills and continue practicing conversation and composition.
MDRNGRK 5010 - Advanced Studies in Modern Greek Language and Culture
Sequel to 4002, giving students the opportunity to continue their studies on an individual and group basis in a structured way with the ultimate goal of achieving bilingualism in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing.