This course will focus on one or more works by the Roman historian Sallust, read in the original Latin. Additional reading in English.
This course explores the origins and debates of Athenian democracy in the fifth century BCE through historical study and immersive role-play. Students examine primary sources from Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and …
In this course, we'll read a variety of selections from Lucretius poem about the nature of the universe, including topics as wide-ranging as the body, sex, death, atomic theory, the …
The course examines the major works of Julius Caesar in Latin.
Readings from the Latin Bible, beginning with selections from narrative books (e.g., Genesis, Acts) and progressing to more elaborate and poetic portions (e.g. Psalms, Job, Song of Songs). Readings will …
Analyzes readings in the tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca; and the comic poets Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence, together with ancient and modern discussions. For more details on …
What does it mean to say that Cleopatra was black, or not? Ancient history comes up often in modern debates about race. We will investigate how people understood racial and …
The course explores Ancient Greek religious practices and beliefs with an emphasis on Greek religious rituals understood in the broadest terms, and hence including Greek magical practices and associated beliefs. …
Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single "proto-language," called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this …
This introduction to the Celtic inhabitants of Gaul and Britain unites two approaches, one literary, one linguistic. First, we will compare descriptions of the Celts found in Greek and Latin …
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Translation and interpretation of the poems of Catullus.
This class will combine Latin prose composition exercises and readings from Cicero, with the goal of actively recognizing, understanding, and using key characteristics of literary prose style from the Late …
In a biography that chiefly covers his father-in-law Agricola's time as governor of Britain, the bracingly caustic historian Tacitus suggests that maybe not everything the Romans did in the provinces …
Study of the pastoral poetry of Vergil in its literary and historical contexts.
This advanced course will study Ovid's calendar-poem, Fasti, which presents festivals and star-myths for six months of the year. This work of late Ovid (written both before and after his …
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.