Lectures, discussion, reading, and research on selected topics in Greek and Roman history.

Introduction to Roman law with close study of primary sources.

Traces political, social, economic, and general cultural developments on Crete and the Greek mainland between roughly 2200 and 1100 BCE.

Questions that engage ancient historians today and the methods that they use. Some background in ancient Greek history is recommended.

Explores Athenian society, democracy, and empire from the development of Athenian hegemony in the 470s BCE through the break up of the Athenian Empire in 404 BCE.

Multidisciplinary approach to the cultural concepts of space and place using Greek and Roman literary, historical, and archaeological sources.

Examines topics and problems in the social, political and economic history of the ancient city-state of Sparta.

Examines aspects of the organization of thought in the ancient world.

Explore the ethnographic component of the Histories of Herodotus.

Analyze literacy, numeracy, and visuality, that is "reading" and writing" by means of visual representations, largely by tracing the history of how modern scholars have analyzed those practices.

Examine Roman social history: family structure and demography, gender systems, official social hierarchies, urban/rural interactions and labor. Consideration both of primary evidence and the historiography of the field.