Spring 2027
CLST 3 Reason and the Good Life
An introduction to philosophical thought in antiquity, especially that of Socrates, Epicurus, and the Stoics. We will concentrate especially on ethical questions; e.g. what kind of life is best for humans to pursue, how thoughtful persons should weigh the potentially competing claims of reason, pleasure, and emotion; and on how intellectual activity was perceived at Athens and at Rome. Open to all classes. Graver, TMV; WCult:W.
CLST 7 First Year Seminar
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CLST 10.15 Magic and the Occult
From simple spells designed to meet the needs of the poor and the desperate to the complex theurgies of the philosophers, the people of the Greco-Roman world employed magic to try to influence the world around them. We will study the ancient practitioners of magic, the techniques through which they served their clientele, the bodies of occult knowledge upon which they drew, and the cultural contexts in which they operated or were thought to operate. Glauthier, TMV; WCult:W.
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CLST 30.01 Classical Art and Archaeology: Study Abroad I
Credit for this course is awarded to students who have successfully completed the work of the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Greece or Italy. May be taken in partial fulfillment of the major in Art History. Hruby, TAS; WCult:W.
CLST 30.02 Classical Art and Archaeology: Study Abroad II
Credit for this course is awarded to students who have successfully completed the work of the Dartmouth Foreign Study Program in Greece or Italy. May be taken in partial fulfillment of the major in Art History. Hruby, INT or SOC; WCult:CI.
GRK 1.02, 3.02 Intensive Greek
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of Greek grammar in an intensive mode. Students are required to enroll for both time sequences. Through intensive drills and graded readings, the basic features of Greek grammar will be presented rapidly. Completion of this double course will allow a student to enroll in Greek 10 or to read simple Greek prose independently. The course satisfies the college language requirement. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive Requirement. Tell.
GRK 3 Introductory Ancient Greek III
Study of ancient Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary accompanied by reading of advanced stories adapted from ancient Greek courtroom speeches and tragedies. Normally offered in the Spring term, this course is designed to be followed immediately by GRK 10 in the Fall. Satisfies the College language requirement. Whaley.
GRK 26 Herodotus
This course centers on the period of intellectual ferment and enquiry in fifth- and fourth-century Athens, when traditional beliefs came under scrutiny and many different figures laid claim to truth telling, from orators and sophists to poets and the practitioners of philosophy and history. Texts studied will be taken from the following: philosophy (the sophists, the early dialogues of Plato); history (Herodotus and/or Thucydides); the medical writers; dramatists (Euripides, Aristophanes): orators. TBD.
LAT 2 Latin 2 (Spring)
Continues the study of Latin language and Roman culture begun in Latin 1. The structures of the language are introduced through readings of gradually increasing complexity. The narrative content of the course brings in historical persons and events from the last quarter of the first century A.D, both in the province of Britannia and in the city of Rome. The class will will also spend some time studying real inscriptions, curse tablets, and coins, as well as composing in Latin as a means to increasing reading fluency. This course is primarily designed for students who have taken Latin 1 at Dartmouth, but will also be a good fit for those who have had one or more years of high school Latin and want to reinforce their skills before moving on to reading unadapted Latin in Latin 3. 9L, and 2.
For more information contact: Jenny Lynn, Language Program Director
LAT 3 Latin 3 (Spring)
Continued study of Latin grammar, vocabulary, and syntax with reading of selected literary texts. Completion of Latin 3 satisfies the College language requirement. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirement. 9L, 10, and 2.
For more information contact: Jenny Lynn, Language Program Director
LAT 10.04 Latin Manuscripts and Paleography
This course is an introduction to the basic skills of Latin paleography, from the scripts of Late Antiquity to the Humanist scripts of the Renaissance. Working closely with manuscriptis in the Dartmouth Collections, supplemented with digital images of the of manuscripts held in other libraries around the world, students will learn to transcribe and translate manuscripts, and to understand them both as tramsitters of texts and as material objects that tell their own stories. Lynn. Course Flyer. ART, 11.
LAT 31 Italian Countryside
The environmental concerns of our own time find a counterpart in the Roman fascination with the beauty and fragility of the rural landscape and natural world. Readings may come from pastoral poetry, represented especially by Vergil’s Eclogues; the literature of farming and agriculture, including Vergil’s Georgics; and related themes in works by Varro, Horace, Tibullus, and others. Glauthier, LIT; WCult:W.