{"id":543,"date":"2013-05-17T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/?page_id=543"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:05:25","slug":"lnw6935","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/courses\/lnw6935\/","title":{"rendered":"LNW 6935: Proseminar"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LNW 6935: Proseminar<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2007<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, Period 9-11 (125 Dauer Hall)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An introduction to the various approaches, methods, and theories used in classical studies.\u00a0 This course does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the history of the field or of the methods applied to individual subfields.\u00a0 Instead, it seeks to introduce students to some of the major trends that have had significant impact on the direction of contemporary classical scholarship and to help students develop skills in critical analysis, which they will be expected to apply in their work on their M.A. and Ph.D. theses.\u00a0 Topics include source criticism and\u00a0Quellenforschung, epigraphy, Athenian Politics, Greek philosophy, the Augustan Principate, Roman Slavery, Roman religion, literary theory, the ancient economy, sexuality, and the construction of private space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Required Texts\u00a0<small><br>\n<\/small><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon\u00a0 Price, eds.\u00a0<em>Religions of Rome<\/em>, vol. 1 (Cambridge 1998).<\/li>\n<li>Bradley, Keith,\u00a0<em>Slavery and Society at Rome<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge 1994).<\/li>\n<li>Dougherty, Carol, and Leslie Kurke, eds.,\u00a0<em>Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge, 1993).<\/li>\n<li>Halperin, David, John Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin, eds.,\u00a0<em>Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton 1990).<\/li>\n<li>Nightingale, Andrea,\u00a0<em>Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy<\/em> (Cambridge 1995).<\/li>\n<li>Zanker, Paul,\u00a0<em>The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus<\/em>\u00a0(Ann Arbor 1988).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended Texts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01443.0001.001;view=toc\">M. I. Finley,\u00a0Ancient Economy,\u00a0updated ed. (Berkeley 1999).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01458.0001.001;view=toc\">J. Ober,\u00a0Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People\u00a0(Princeton 1989).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Readings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Required books are on reserve in Library West; articles are either online on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ares.uflib.ufl.edu\/\">course&#8217;s e-reserves page<\/a>\u00a0or available in 125 Dauer Hall. Web links to library resources are accessible off-campus only if you use the UF VPN or the Library Proxy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Class Participation (15%), based on contribution in weekly class meetings.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2 Book Reviews (20% each), approximately 1200-1500 words (each).\u00a0 Students are to choose two books to review from required readings.\u00a0 Each review is due at the beginning of class on the day that book is to be discussed in our weekly meeting (see\u00a0Weekly Schedule). No extensions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Review of the Literature (45%), approximately 15 pages, due on Dec. 5.\u00a0 Provide a critical analysis of the seminal scholarship for a particular topic or subfield (e.g., Homer, Vergil, the Peloponnesian War, Augustus), explaining how the field has changed, what are the essential questions that scholars have debated, what methods and theories have been applied to the particular area of study, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 29: Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 1: GREECE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 5:\u00a0Source Criticism and\u00a0Quellenforschung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Battle of Aegopotami\n<ul>\n<li>Xen.\u00a0Hell.2.1.17-29.<\/li>\n<li>D. S. 13.104.1-106.7.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/links.jstor.org\/sici?sici=0002-9475%28198321%29104%3A1%3C24%3AAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F\">Strauss, Barry, &#8220;Aegospotami Reexamined,\u00a0<em>AJP<\/em>\u00a0104 (1983) 24\u201335.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wylie, G., &#8220;What Really Happened at Aegospotami?&#8221;\u00a0<em>AC<\/em>\u00a055 (1986) 125\u201341 (<a href=\"https:\/\/ares.uflib.ufl.edu\/\">electronic document; available on Course Reserves<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Rule of the Thirty\n<ul>\n<li>Xen.\u00a0<em>Hell<\/em>. 2.3.11-4.43.<\/li>\n<li>[Arist.]\u00a0<em>Ath. Pol.\u00a0<\/em>34.3-38.4.<\/li>\n<li>Krentz, Peter,\u00a0<em>The Thirty at Athens<\/em>\u00a0(Ithaca 1982) appendix, 131\u201352 (<a href=\"https:\/\/ares.uflib.ufl.edu\/\">electronic document; available on Course Reserves<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Adeleye, Gabriel, &#8220;Theramenes: The End of a Controversial Career,&#8221; <em>Museum Africum<\/em>\u00a05 (1976) 9\u201322 (<a href=\"https:\/\/ares.uflib.ufl.edu\/\">electronic document; available on Course Reserves<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Wolpert, Andrew, &#8220;The Violence of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens,&#8221; in <em>Ancient Tyranny<\/em>, edited by Sian Lewis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) 213\u201323 (<a href=\"https:\/\/ares.uflib.ufl.edu\/\">electronic document; available on Course Reserves<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 12: The Athenian Democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01458.0001.001;view=toc\">Ober, Josiah,\u00a0\u00a0Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People\u00a0(Princeton 1989).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 19: Greek Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nightingale, Andrea,\u00a0<em>Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy<\/em> (Cambridge 1995). Also available online in Netlibrary (can be checked out by only one UF patron at a time)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 26: Archaic Greece and Postmodern Literary Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dougherty, Carol, and Leslie Kurke, eds.,\u00a0<em>Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge, 1993).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 2: ROME<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 3: Augustus and Roman Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Zanker, Paul,\u00a0<em>The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus<\/em>\u00a0(Ann Arbor 1988).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 10: The Pisonian Conspiracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/links.jstor.org\/sici?sici=0002-9475%28199921%29120%3A1%3C%3E1.0.CO%3B2-Y\">Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre,\u00a0AJP\u00a0120.1 (1999).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 17: Slavery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bradley, Keith,\u00a0<em>Slavery and Society at Rome<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge 1994).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 24: Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price, eds.\u00a0<em>Religions of Rome<\/em>, vol. 1 (Cambridge 1998).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 3: ANCIENT SOCIETY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 31: The Ancient Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01443.0001.001;view=toc\">Finley, M.I.,\u00a0Ancient Economy,\u00a0updated ed. (Berkeley 1999).<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 7 Sexuality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Halperin, David, John Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin, eds., <em>Before\u00a0Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton 1990).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 4: RESEARCH PROJECTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 14: Work on Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 21: Work on Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 28: Work on Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 5: Review of Literature due<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grading Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A = 91-100%<br>\nB+= 86-90.9%<br>\nB = 81-85.9%<br>\nC+ = 76-80.9%<br>\nC = 71-76.9%<br>\nD+ = 66-70.9%<br>\nD = 61-65.9%<br>\nE &lt; 60.9%<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/543\/revisions\/1724"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/wolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}