Winter 2026

CLST 6 Introduction to Classical Archaeology This course addresses the basic methods and principles of Classical archaeology through a survey of the sites and artifacts of Greco-Roman antiquity. Approaches useful for the interpretation of material evidence and the problems inherent in such interpretation will be explored. Through the study of major sites in chronological sequence, students will survey the development of material culture in the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the collapse of the Roman Empire. The course thus serves as an introduction both to Greek and Roman civilization and to the goals of the discipline of archaeology. Open to all classes.INT or ART; WCult:W

CLST 7 First-Year Seminars in Classical Studies: Foodstuffs and Culinary Culture in Antiquity One thing all humans share is a relationship with food, but what that food is, who prepares it, how they prepare it, who consumes it, and when and how they consume it, all vary between cultures and within them. Food has a particular immediacy among the major mechanisms of identity formation because it affects all five of the traditionally identified senses: sight, feel, hearing, smell, and above all, taste. This course examines how ancient Greeks and Romans used food to differentiate between themselves and others, and how they used food to differentiate among themselves. In the process, we will gain skills for writing and verbal communication.

CLST 12 Topics in Classical Archaeology Courses offered under this rubric explore specific facets of ancient Greek and Roman material culture, of the methodologies employed by classical archaeologists, and of the preservation and reception of Greek and Roman material culture.

CLST 18 History of the Roman Empire: roman Principate to Christian Empire This course is designed to survey the major events in the history of Rome from 31 B.C. (Octavian/Augustus' success at the battle of Actium) through the accession and rule of Septimius Severus. During this period, the Roman empire (signifying the territorial extent conquered by Roman armies and administered by Roman officials) became a political community extending throughout the Mediterranean and northwards into Europe as far as Scotland. This course considers the logic of the Roman system: the mechanisms promoting the political identity of diverse peoples as Roman, and the endurance of local traditions within the Roman world; the reasoning whereby the overarching leadership of a single individual was conceived as necessary and good, and the evolving relationship between the princeps and the Roman senatorial aristocracy with a tradition of competitive participation and self identity in politics at Rome; the definition of the Roman frontiers and the role of the army in the assimilation of non-Roman peoples. INT or SOC; WCult:W.

CLST 21 Greek Archaeology: Early Iron Age and Archaic This course examines in detail through archaeology the cultural process whereby Greece evolved from a scattered group of isolated and backward villages in the Dark Ages (ca. 1100-750 B.C.) to a series of independent, often cosmopolitan city-states united against the threat of Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480 B.C. Where did the Greeks acquire the concept of monumental temple architecture and why did they choose to build temples in only two or three different architectural styles? Where did the Greeks learn to write in an alphabetic script and what did they first write down? Who taught the Greeks the art of sculpture and why did they begin by carving what they did? When and why did the Greeks begin to portray their myths in art? May be taken in partial fulfillment of the major in Art History. SOC; WCult:W

GRK 2

GRK 30 Course offerings under this rubric vary from year to year. Emphasis is placed on writing and research skills as well as the development of reading ability in Greek. 

LAT 1   Latin 1  Introduction to Latin grammar, vocabulary, and syntax through prose readings of gradually increasing difficulty. Never serves in partial satisfaction of the Distributive or World Culture Requirement.

LAT 2   Latin 2 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.

LAT 10.03 Topics in Latin Texts: Petronius's Satyricon and Neronian Rome  An introduction to continuous readings of unadapted Latin prose via the hilariously bizarre novel Satyricon, written by a certain Petronius during the reign of Nero. Petronius's work will be supplemented with excerpts from Petronius' contemporaries or near-contemporaries (Seneca, Lucan, Tacitus) to paint a picture of the carnivalesque madness that was Neronian Rome. The course Includes a comprehensive review of Latin grammar and the opportunity to discuss questions of language and interpretation. LIT, W.

LAT 28 Literature of the Later Empire and the Middle Ages Readings from the late Empire to the high Middle Ages that may include selections from the Vulgate, St. Augustine's Confessions, the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Hrotsvitha's Dulcitius, and the Carmina Burana. LIT; WCult:W.