Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

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/.

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

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.

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

This class will combine Latin prose composition exercises with close analysis of the style of Cicero, with the goal of actively recognizing, understanding, and using key characteristics of literary prose style from the Late Republic. We will work through exercises designed to make us comfortable in writing Latin, lectures on topics in Latin syntax, word order, and style, and culminate in the composition of extended passages of Latin prose. There will also be a brief foray into verse composition.

Translation and analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the original ancient Latin.

This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature

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.

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/.