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 …
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. …
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.
Selections of Mediaeval Latin prose and verse. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
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 …
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 …
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 …
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.