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| Classics | |
| CLAS 1001T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Artistic, Interpretive, and Philosophical Inquiry. | |
| CLAS 1002T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Cultures and Societies of the World. | |
| CLAS 1003T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Historical Perspectives. | |
| CLAS 1004T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Social and Economic Systems. | |
| CLAS 1005T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Chemical, Mathematical, and Physical Inquiry | |
| CLAS 1006T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Living Systems. | |
| CLAS 1007T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Science and Society | |
| CLAS 1559 | New Course in Classics (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 2010 | Greek Civilization (3) |
| Studies Greek history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 2020 | Roman Civilization (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies Roman history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Fall 2009 |
| CLAS 2040 | Greek Mythology (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces major themes of Greek mythological thought; surveys myths about the olympic pantheon and the legends of the heroes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 |
| CLAS 2100 | Classical Myth and its Influence (3) |
| Studies the influence and prominence of Classical myth in literature and other arts in antiquity and through time. | |
| CLAS 2300 | Ancient Rome at the Movies (3) |
| This class will study the representation of Rome on both the big & small screen from the early days until now. Readings from classical sources, from film theory, & from the historical novels that inspired some of the films. We'll be asking how these imagined Romes relate to historical reality, how they engage in dialogue with one another, & how they function as a mirror for the concerns & anxieties of our own society. | |
| CLAS 2559 | New Course in Classics (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012 |
| CLAS 3040 | Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome (3) |
| This course focuses on women's roles and lives in Ancient Greece and Rome. Students are introduced to the primary material (textual and material) on women in antiquity and to current debates about it. Subjects addressed will include sexual stereotypes and ideals, power-relations of gender, familial roles, social and economic status, social and political history, visual art, medical theory, and religion. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| CLAS 3100 | Age of Odysseus (3) |
| Studies the literature, culture, history, art, and religion of the times of the Homeric epics (Bronze Age to circa 700 b.c.). Readings include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymns, and Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days. Some emphasis on the archaeology of Mycenaean sites. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3110 | Age of Pericles (3) |
| Studies the literature, art, architecture, history, and politics of the Periclean Age of Athens, with special emphasis on Pericles (circa 495-429 b.c.) and his accomplishments. Readings from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, and Plutarch. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3120 | Age of Alexander (3) |
| Studies the times, person, accomplishments of Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.), the literature, art, and architecture of the period, and the influence of Alexander on the development of Greek and Western culture. Readings from Plutarch, Arrian, Demosthenes, and poets and philosophers of the early Hellenistic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3130 | Age of Augustus (3) |
| Studies the times, person, and accomplishments of the Roman Emperor Augustus (63 b.c.-14 a.d.), with special emphasis on the literature, art, architecture, and political developments of the period. Readings from Tacitus, Suetonius, and the poetry of Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3140 | Age of Augustine (3) |
| Studies cultural developments in the fourth and fifth centuries, centering on St. Augustine and the literature of the period. Readings from such works as Augustine's Confessions and City of God, Jerome's letters, Cassian's Conversations, Sulpicius Severus' biography of St. Martin, and the poetry of Claudian and Prudentius. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3150 | Gods and Androids (3) |
| Reading of ancient epics (Homer's "Illiad". Apollonius of Rhodes "Argonautica" and Vergil's "Aeneid") in light of modern counterparts in various media, including Alan Moore's graphic novel "Watchmen" and the rebotted "Battlestar Galactica". Course was offered Spring 2017, Fall 2014 | |
| CLAS 3210 | Tragedy and Comedy (3) |
| 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 this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 3220 | Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | 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 ethnic difference in the ancient Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and how interpretations of antiquity historically have shaped modern concepts of race. We will study relevant art and literature from the 8th century BCE through the 3rd century CE, and modern responses to both. |
| CLAS 3250 | Ancient Greek Religion (3) |
| An introduction to the religious beliefs, practices, and life of ancient Greeks of the classical period as they are found in literature, history, architecture, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| CLAS 3260 | Rituals in Ancient Greece (3) |
| 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. Starting off with the rituals belonging to the realm of social interaction, and the rites of passage designed for female and male members of society respectively, female dedications etc. v. rituals specific for men. | |
| CLAS 3300 | Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics (3) |
| 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 proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source? Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| CLAS 3350 | Language and Literature of the Early Celts (3) |
| 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 authors with readings of Celtic literature in translation, notably Ireland's great prose epic, the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Second, we will explore how the Celtic languages work, focusing on the basics of Old Irish as well as touching on Middle Welsh and Gaulish. | |
| CLAS 3400 | The City of Rome in Antiquity (3) |
| This lecture course traces the urban development of Rome from the earliest settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the depopulation of the city in the sixth century CE. | |
| CLAS 3559 | New Course in Classics (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, January 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| CLAS 3600 | Medieval Manuscripts at UVA (3) |
| An introduction to the study of medieval manuscripts through the holdings of the University of Virginia. Manuscripts will be studied from a variety of perspectives: the cultural context that produced them, their physical and visual form, and the history of their reception, from their creation to their current home in the Small Special Collections Library. Course was offered January 2015 | |
| CLAS 4993 | Independent Study (3) |
| Independent Study in Classics. | |
| CLAS 5250 | Ancient Greek Religion (3) |
| An introduction to the religious beliefs, practices, and life of ancient Greeks of the classical period as they are found in literature, history, architecture, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| CLAS 5300 | Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (3) |
| 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 proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source? Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| CLAS 5559 | New Course in Classics (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| CLAS 6559 | New Course in Classics (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| CLAS 7031 | Proseminar in Ancient Studies (1) |
| A course for first- or second-year graduate students in ancient disciplines which acquaints them with various facets of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity; introduces them to a range of approaches to the ancient world; and introduces them to each other and to the affiliated faculty in Classics, History, Art, Religious Studies. | |
| CLAS 9995 | Dissertation Seminar (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A team-taught seminar that works by stages towards a complete first draft of the dissertation prospectus. Students will take the seminar during their sixth semester of study; instructors will be the dissertation directors of those students. Each student will register under the name of the director. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 |
| Greek | |
| GREE 1010 | Elementary Greek (4) |
| Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 1020 | Elementary Greek (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| GREE 2010 | Intermediate Greek I (3) |
| Xenophon and Plato. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020. | |
| GREE 2020 | Intermediate Greek II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Herodotus and Euripides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| GREE 2230 | The New Testament I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces New Testament Greek; selections from the Gospels. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| GREE 2240 | The New Testament II (3) |
| Selections from the Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| GREE 3010 | Advanced Reading in Greek (3) |
| Reading of a tragedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020. | |
| GREE 3020 | Advanced Reading in Greek (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Readings in Greek from Homer's Iliad. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030. |
| GREE 3030 | Advanced Reading in Greek (3) |
| Reading of a comedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020. | |
| GREE 3040 | Advanced Reading in Greek (3) |
| Readings in Greek from Homer's Odyssey. Offered in alternate years. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| GREE 3559 | New Course in Greek (1 - 4) |
| New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 4559 | New Course in Greek (1 - 4) |
| New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| GREE 4998 | Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3) |
| Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project | |
| GREE 4999 | Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project.
Prerequisite: GREE 4998 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 |
| GREE 5020 | Survey of Later Greek Literature (3) |
| Lectures with readings from the end of the fifth century to the Second Sophistic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2014 | |
| GREE 5040 | Later Greek Prose (3) |
| Selections from Greek authors, illustrating the development of prose style from the third century, b.c., to the second century, a.d. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5050 | Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5060 | The History of the Greek and Latin Languages (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5070 | Greek Orators (3) |
| Study of the texts of the ancient Greek orators (in ancient Greek). Prerequisite: Advanced knowledge of ancient Greek. Course was offered Fall 2016 | |
| GREE 5080 | Greek Epigraphy (3) |
| Studies the inscriptions of the ancient Greeks. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2022 | |
| GREE 5090 | Prose Composition (3) |
| Translation from English into Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5100 | Homer (3) |
| Readings from Homeric epics, with study of various Homeric problems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2015, Spring 2011 | |
| GREE 5120 | Greek Lyric Poetry (3) |
| Surveys Greek lyric forms from earliest times. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2011 | |
| GREE 5130 | Pindar (3) |
| Readings in the Poetry of Pindar Course was offered Fall 2014 | |
| GREE 5140 | Aeschylus (3) |
| Close reading of two plays of Aeschylus with particular attention to problems of the constitution of the text. Course was offered Spring 2015 | |
| GREE 5150 | Sophocles (3) |
| Selected plays of Sophocles with studies of their dramatic techniques. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| GREE 5160 | Herodotus (3) |
| Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5170 | Euripides (3) |
| Reading of selected plays, with study of the poetic and dramatic technique. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| GREE 5180 | Thucydides (3) |
| Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War, emphasizing the development of Greek historical prose style and the historical monograph. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5210 | Plato (3) |
| Readings from selected dialogues of Plato; studies Plato's philosophy and literary style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2014, Fall 2009 | |
| GREE 5220 | Aristotle (3) |
| Reading and discussion of the Nicomachean Ethics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 5230 | Survey of Hellenistic Poetry (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This survey focuses on the evolution of Greek literature during the Hellenistic period, and will focus on a study of the texts and their cultural and historical contexts. There will be reports, quizzes, midterm, and a final exam or a paper. Course was offered Fall 2020, Spring 2010 |
| GREE 5240 | Language of Epic (3) |
| This course will explore the language of Greek epic poetry (chiefly Homer, but also Hesiod, the Hymns, and Apollonius). What is the nature of the epic Kunstsprache? How does its syntax differ from that of Classical Attic? To what extent can linguistic features be used to date the poems? How much flexibility does the poet have in the use of formulas? How do later poets manipulate the traditional linguistic patterns inherited from earlier epic? Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| GREE 5250 | Demosthenes (3) |
| Demosthenes has long enjoyed a reputation as the best of the Greek orators - a view found, for instance, in Cicero, who knew a thing or two about giving a speech. Through close reading of the First and Third Philippics, On the Crown, and selections from other speeches, together with the necessary secondary literature, this course will examine what it is about Demosthenes' language, style, and rhetoric that led to his preeminence in the field. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| GREE 5260 | Greek Hymns (3) |
| Addressing the gods in the form of a hymn was one of the central elements of Greek religious rituals and a poem was thought to be a valuable gift to the gods. This course will offer a survey of the major hymnic genres, from rhapsodic 'Homeric' hymns, through inscriptional cult hymns, lyric monody, choral lyric, Hellenistic hymns of Callimachus, magical hymns, Orphic hymns, and prose hymns. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| GREE 5559 | New Course in Greek (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| GREE 5993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| GREE 7559 | New Course: GREE (3) |
| New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2013 | |
| GREE 8100 | Greek Religion (3) |
| Seminar on select topics in Greek Religion. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2011 | |
| GREE 8130 | Greek Literary Criticism (3) |
| Readings from Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics and Longinus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| GREE 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For master's thesis, taken before a thesis director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| GREE 8999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| GREE 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| GREE 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| Latin | |
| LATI 116 | Intensive Introductory Latin (0) |
| This is the non-credit option for LATI 1016. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 126 | Intensive Introductory Latin (0) |
| This is the non-credit option for LATI 1026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 216 | Intensive Intermediate Latin (0) |
| This is the non-credit option for LATI 2016. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 226 | Intensive Intermediate Latin (0) |
| This is the non-credit option for LATI 2026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 1010 | Elementary Latin I (4) |
| Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 1016 | Intensive Introductory Latin (3) |
| This intensive course begins with instruction in elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| LATI 1020 | Elementary Latin II (4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LATI 1026 | Intensive Introductory Latin (3) |
| This intensive course begins with instruction in elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisites: Lati 1016 or equivalent. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| LATI 1030 | Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive) (4) |
| Covers the material of 1010,1020 in one semester. Intended principally as a review for those who know some Latin. May be taken as a rapid introduction to Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Two or more years of high school Latin and appropriate CEEB score, or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. | |
| LATI 2010 | Intermediate Latin I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introductory readings from Caesar and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 1020, 1030, or appropriate CEEB score. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 2016 | Intensive Intermediate Latin (3) |
| This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills, Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisites: Lati 1016 &1026 or equivalent. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| LATI 2020 | Intermediate Latin II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introductory readings from Cicero and Catullus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 2010. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 2026 | Intensive Intermediate Latin (3) |
| This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level e reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisites: Lati 1016, 1026 and 2016 or equivalent. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| LATI 3010 | Plautus (3) |
| Reading of two plays of Plautus with attention to style and dramaturgy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3020 | Catullus (3) |
| Selections from Carmina. Note: The prerequisite for LATI 3030 through LATI 3110 is LATI 2020, four years of high school Latin, or appropriate SAT score. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3030 | Cicero (3) |
| Selections from Cicero's speeches, philosophical works, and letters. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3040 | Prose Composition (3) |
| Graded exercises in translation from English into Latin, with some attention to the reverse process. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3050 | The Satirical Writing of Petronius and Seneca (3) |
| Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis, and Seneca's Apocolocyntosis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3070 | Livy (3) |
| Selections from Livy's History. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3080 | Horace (3) |
| Selections from Horace's Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3090 | Introduction to Mediaeval Latin (3) |
| Selections of Mediaeval Latin prose and verse. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3100 | Vergil (3) |
| Selections from Vergil's Aeneid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 3110 | Ovid (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Selections from either the narrative poems (Metamorphoses, Fasti) or from the amatory poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. |
| LATI 3120 | Pliny's Letters (3) |
| In this course we read the selection of letters of the younger Pliny that are found in the edition by Sherwin-White. Pliny is one of the clearest and most stylish writers of Latin prose. We concentrate on translating the letters and putting them into their social and literary context. | |
| LATI 3130 | Roman Satire (3) |
| This class will explore the Romans' "own genre: satire. After an overview of the development of satire and its early practitioners, we will read and translate selected satires of Horace and Juvenal. While reading these often funny and at the same time biting poems, we will learn a great deal about society and manners, life and death, rich men and poor slobs, and high & low life characters in the Augustan & early imperial periods of Rome. Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| LATI 3150 | Sallust (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will focus on one or more works by the Roman historian Sallust, read in the original Latin. Additional reading in English. Course was offered Fall 2012 |
| LATI 3160 | Lucretius (3) |
| 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 origins of language and civilization, and why we need philosophy. | |
| LATI 3170 | Caesar (3) |
| The course examines the major works of Julius Caesar in Latin. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| LATI 3200 | Latin Bible (3) |
| 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 be taken mainly from the Vulgate, but we will look briefly at the Old Latin versions and at modern English translations. We will also consider some medieval Bible manuscripts, including several in Special Collections at UVA. | |
| LATI 3270 | Seneca (3) |
| The main focus of the course will be on Seneca's political thought. By engaging in close reading of both his prose writings and his dramatic production, we will tackle Seneca's views on the institution of the Empire in general, and on the emperor Nero in particular. Particular attention will be devoted to issues of grammar, syntax, meter, and style. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| LATI 3559 | New Course in Latin (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LATI 4010 | Catullus (3) |
| Translation and interpretation of the poems of Catullus. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2016 | |
| LATI 4020 | Seminar in Vergil (3) |
| In-depth study of one book of Vergil's epic, the Aeneid, with attention to language, epic tradition, Augustan ideology and the topography of Rome. Quizzes, reports, exam, paper. | |
| LATI 4050 | Latin Prose Composition (3) |
| 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 Republic. Readings will be supplemented by short lectures or group discussions on topics relevant to composition and comparisons with other prose authors. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2020 | |
| LATI 4060 | Tacitus Agricola (3) |
| 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 was entirely admirable. In this course, we will not only read the primary text with care and precision, but also discuss scholarship on literary, cultural, and historical questions raised by the work. Course was offered Fall 2021 | |
| LATI 4090 | Vergil Eclogues (3) |
| Study of the pastoral poetry of Vergil in its literary and historical contexts. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| LATI 4110 | Ovid, Fasti (3) |
| 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 exile) offers the opportunity to study a literary response to Rome's religious calendar and its imperial remaking in the age of Augustus. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LATI 4559 | New Course in Latin (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 4998 | Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3) |
| Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project | |
| LATI 4999 | Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project.
Prerequisites: LATI 4998 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 |
| LATI 5020 | History of Latin Literature of the Empire (3) |
| Lectures with readings from Vergil through Juvenal. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| LATI 5030 | History of Medieval Latin Literature (3) |
| Studies of medieval Latin literature from Boethius to Dante. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5040 | Prose Composition (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5050 | Latin Paleography. (3) |
| Studies scripts and book production from antiquity to the Renaissance. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2014 | |
| LATI 5060 | Roman Comedy (3) |
| Studies selected plays of Plautus and Terence. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Prerequisite: advanced knowledge of Latin Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2015 | |
| LATI 5070 | Latin Elegy (3) |
| Studies selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5080 | Latin Linguistics (3) |
| This course will examine some of the major issues in Latin linguistics, including, but not limited to, the Indo-European background of Latin, the origins of the declensions and conjugations, the relationship of Latin to the other early Italic dialects, word order, and the pragmatics of Latin particles and tense usage. Particular attention will be paid to the practice of writing linguistic commentary on standard Latin texts. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| LATI 5110 | Catullus (3) |
| Studies the surviving poems of Catullus, with particular attention to questions of genre, structure, and literary history. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5120 | Julius Caesar (3) |
| Readings in and discussion of Julius Caesar's Commentarities on the Gallic Wars and the Civil War, as well as the "Continuators", who wrote accounts of the latter after Caesar's death. Course was offered Fall 2014 | |
| LATI 5140 | Cicero's Rhetorical Works (3) |
| Readings from the orations and from the rhetorical treatises. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| LATI 5160 | Vergil's Aeneid (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5200 | Ovid's Metamorphoses (3) |
| Translation and analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the original ancient Latin. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2021 | |
| LATI 5210 | Ovid's Love Poetry (3) |
| Studies readings from the Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 5220 | Tacitus (3) |
| Selections from Tacitus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2014 | |
| LATI 5290 | Seneca (3) |
| This course is designed to introduce students to the work of Seneca. The main focus of the course will be on Seneca's political thought. We will be reading selections from the "De Clementia" and the "Thyestes." Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021 | |
| LATI 5300 | Latin Survey (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature |
| LATI 5310 | Latin Didactic Poetry (3) |
| This class combines Latin prose composition exercises and analysis of the writing of Cicero and other prose authors, with the goal of imitating accurately literary prose from the Late Republic. Textbook exercises will be combined with extended Latin translations of English prose. The course is supplemented by discussion of relevant topics (e.g., colometry; prose rhythm; verse composition). Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| LATI 5370 | Lucan (3) |
| Reading of Lucan's epic De bello civili in the light of modern scholarship, with attention to various related topics (textual transmission, scholia, later reception). | |
| LATI 5559 | New Course in Latin (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 5993 | Independent Study (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LATI 7030 | The Teaching of Latin (3) |
| This course will deal with the teaching of Latin at all levels. Issues of curriculum, textbooks, and methodology will be addressed along with practical matters of day-to-day classroom realities. | |
| LATI 7070 | Fragmentary Roman Historians (3) |
| This class reads the many fragments of Roman Republican historians and learns how to analyze them from three perspectives: linguistic (including textual problems); literary; and historical. Why did early Romans, many of them active statesmen and generals, write history? What themes are perceptible in their surviving fragments? What was the historical context of the author, and what was the historical contribution of his work? Course was offered Fall 2011 | |
| LATI 7500 | Reading Latin Literature (3) |
| A study of the readings in the revised Advanced Placement Examination Course was offered Summer 2011 | |
| LATI 7559 | New Course in Latin (3) |
| New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2012 | |
| LATI 8010 | Seminar on Select Topics in Latin Literature (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 8999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. | |
| LATI 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LATI 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |