Surveys Greek lyric forms from earliest times. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
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
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
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 …
Translation and analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the original ancient Latin.
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 …
This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature
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 …
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. …
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/.