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Classics
CLAS 1559New 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 2010Greek Civilization (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Studies Greek history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 2020Roman Civilization (3)
Studies Roman history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 2040Greek Mythology (3)
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/.
CLAS 2100Classical Myth and its Influence (3)
Studies the influence and prominence of Classical myth in literature and other arts in antiquity and through time.
CLAS 2300Ancient 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
CLAS 2559New 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 3040Women 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/.
CLAS 3100Age 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/.
Course was offered Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2011
CLAS 3110Age 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 3120Age 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 3130Age 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/.
Course was offered Fall 2016, Fall 2015
CLAS 3140Age 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 3150Gods 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 3210Tragedy and Comedy (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
Course was offered Fall 2016, Fall 2013, Fall 2011
CLAS 3220Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome (3)
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 3250Ancient 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 3260Rituals in Ancient Greece (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
CLAS 3300Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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?
CLAS 3350Language 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 3400The 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 3559New 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 3600Medieval 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 4993Independent Study (3)
Independent Study in Classics.
CLAS 5250Ancient 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 5300Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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?
CLAS 5559New 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 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2010
CLAS 6559New 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 7031Proseminar 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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
CLAS 9995Dissertation Seminar (3)
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.
Greek
GREE 1010Elementary Greek (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 1020Elementary 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 2010Intermediate Greek I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2020Intermediate Greek II (3)
Herodotus and Euripides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.
GREE 2230The New Testament I (3)
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.
GREE 2240The 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.
GREE 3010Advanced Reading in Greek (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 3020Advanced Reading in Greek (3)
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 3030Advanced 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 3040Advanced 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.
GREE 3559New 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 4559New 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 4993Independent Study (1 - 3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 4998Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project
GREE 4999Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3)
Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisite: GREE 4998
GREE 5020Survey 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 5040Later 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 5050Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (3)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5060The 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 5070Greek 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 5080Greek 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 5090Prose Composition (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Translation from English into Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5100Homer (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 5120Greek 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 5130Pindar (3)
Readings in the Poetry of Pindar
Course was offered Fall 2014
GREE 5140Aeschylus (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 5150Sophocles (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 5160Herodotus (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Spring 2013
GREE 5170Euripides (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 5180Thucydides (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/.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Spring 2016, Spring 2012
GREE 5210Plato (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 5220Aristotle (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 5230Survey of Hellenistic Poetry (3)
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 5240Language 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 5250Demosthenes (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 5260Greek 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 5559New Course in Greek (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5993Independent Study (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 7559New 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 8100Greek 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 8130Greek 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 8998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
GREE 8999Non-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 9998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
GREE 9999Non-Topical Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
Latin
LATI 116Intensive 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 126Intensive 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 216Intensive 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 226Intensive 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 1010Elementary Latin I (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 1016Intensive 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/.
LATI 1020Elementary Latin II (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 1026Intensive 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.
LATI 1030Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive) (4)
Offered
Fall 2024
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 2010Intermediate Latin I (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
LATI 2016Intensive 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.
LATI 2020Intermediate Latin II (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
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.
LATI 2026Intensive 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.
LATI 3010Plautus (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 3020Catullus (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/.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Fall 2010
LATI 3030Cicero (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 3040Prose 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 3050The 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/.
Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2014, Spring 2010
LATI 3070Livy (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Selections from Livy's History. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 3080Horace (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 3090Introduction 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 3100Vergil (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Selections from Vergil's Aeneid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 3110Ovid (3)
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 3120Pliny'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.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2018, Fall 2011
LATI 3130Roman 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 3150Sallust (3)
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 3160Lucretius (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 3170Caesar (3)
The course examines the major works of Julius Caesar in Latin.
Course was offered Spring 2021
LATI 3200Latin 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.
Course was offered Fall 2021, Fall 2019
LATI 3270Seneca (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 3559New 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/.
LATI 4010Catullus (3)
Translation and interpretation of the poems of Catullus.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2016
LATI 4020Seminar 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 4050Latin 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 4060Tacitus 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 4090Vergil Eclogues (3)
Study of the pastoral poetry of Vergil in its literary and historical contexts.
Course was offered Spring 2021
LATI 4110Ovid, 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 4559New Course in Latin (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 4993Independent Study (1 - 3)
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 4998Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project
LATI 4999Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3)
Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisites: LATI 4998
LATI 5020History 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 5030History 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 5040Prose Composition (3)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5050Latin 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 5060Roman 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 5070Latin Elegy (3)
Offered
Fall 2024
Studies selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Fall 2019
LATI 5080Latin 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 5110Catullus (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/.
Course was offered Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2013
LATI 5120Julius 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 5140Cicero'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 5160Vergil's Aeneid (3)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2011
LATI 5200Ovid's Metamorphoses (3)
Translation and analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the original ancient Latin.
Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2021
LATI 5210Ovid'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/.
Course was offered Fall 2011, Fall 2009
LATI 5220Tacitus (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 5290Seneca (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 5300Latin Survey (3)
This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature
Course was offered Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2014
LATI 5310Latin 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 5370Lucan (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 5559New Course in Latin (1 - 4)
Offered
Fall 2024
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5993Independent Study (3)
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 7030The 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 7070Fragmentary 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 7500Reading Latin Literature (3)
A study of the readings in the revised Advanced Placement Examination
Course was offered Summer 2011
LATI 7559New 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 8010Seminar 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 8998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
LATI 8999Non-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 9998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.
LATI 9999Non-Topical Research (1 - 12)
Offered
Fall 2024
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/.