Classes

Do you want to learn how to read the Greek classics from the manuscripts in which they survive? This course offers an introduction to late antique and medieval Greek book culture and handwriting. On the basis of selected manuscripts of a variety of texts (for example, the...

This course offers a survey of Greek literature from around 400 BC to AD 200 through the lens of rhetorical discourse. In the largely oral societies of the ancient Mediterranean world, speech occupied an important place in public discourse. The delivery of orations and more...

“For our knowledge of virtually the entire history of the classical epigram, we are dependent on two celebrated and remarkable manuscripts: the so-called Palatine Anthology … and the Planudean Anthology” (Cameron 1993, 16). These two manuscripts make up what we today...

This seminar explores the construction and complexity of identities in the Greek tradition (300-1500). How did the inhabitants of the Byzantine, or the Eastern Roman, Empire in the Middle Ages, both men and women, Constantinopolitans and provincials, emperors and people of...

This course provides an introduction to the language of late antique and Byzantine Greek texts. This “Medieval Greek” should not be understood as a particular, “intermediate” stage in a supposedly linear development from Ancient to Modern Greek, but rather as a conventional...

This course provides an introduction to the language of late antique and Byzantine Greek texts. This “Medieval Greek” should not be understood as a particular, “intermediate” stage in a supposedly linear development from Ancient to Modern Greek, but rather as a conventional...

This course provides an introduction to the language of late antique and Byzantine Greek texts. This “Medieval Greek” should not be understood as a particular, “intermediate” stage in a supposedly linear development from Ancient to Modern Greek, but rather as a conventional...

This course offers a survey of Greek literature from around 400 BC to 400 AD through the lens of rhetorical discourse. We will read extracts from a broad range of texts from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique periods. The selection will include exemplary...

Letters were an important medium of long-distance communication in the ancient Mediterranean, be it for private matters, official affairs, or business transactions. Soon after its emergence in the Greek world, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and...

This course is intended as an introduction to late antique and medieval Greek book culture and handwriting. On the basis of selected manuscripts of a variety of texts, ranging from classical authors to the Bible and Byzantine writers, we will trace the main lines of...

This course provides an introduction to the language of late antique and Byzantine Greek texts. This “Medieval Greek” should not be understood as a clearly definable stage in a linear development from Ancient to Modern Greek, but rather as a conventional designation of a...

This course offers a survey of Greek literature from the late 5th century BC to the late 5th century AD through the lens of rhetorical discourse. We will read extracts from a broad range of texts from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods. The selection...