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Course Info for CLCV - 214 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2698 Title: Greek and Roman Architecture Department: Classical Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 22 Available seats: 7
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, SH - N130 Instructor(s): Risser, Martha
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Arts Requirement
Note: 4 seats reserved for Classical Studies majors, 3 for first-years, 2 AHIS majors.
Course Description:
An examination of building materials and methods used in the construction of domestic, civic, and religious buildings of the Greek and Roman worlds. Topics of discussion include ways in which functions of buildings influenced their forms; comparative studies of the works of individual architects; architectural adaptations to local topography; propaganda purposes of architecture; and ancient opinions and accounts of architecture, including selections from the works of Plautus, Vitruvius, and Pliny the Elder; and Latin inscriptions. We will then compare written accounts to archaeological evidence. Students in LATN 314 will read some of the material in Latin, whereas all of the reading for CLCV 214 will be in English.