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/.

This course will focus on one or more works by the Roman historian Sallust, read in the original Latin. Additional reading in English.

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/.

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.

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.

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?

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

Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project.Prerequisite: GREE 4998