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Classics
CLAS 1559New Course in Classics (1.00 - 4.00)
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 (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 3040Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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/.
Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2010
CLAS 3100Age of Odysseus (3.00)
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 Fall 2011
CLAS 3110Age of Pericles (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Fall 2009
CLAS 3130Age of Augustus (3.00)
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/.
CLAS 3140Age of Augustine (3.00)
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 3150Ancient Epic and Popular Culture (3.00)
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".
CLAS 3210Tragedy and Comedy (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 2011
CLAS 3250Ancient Greek Religion (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 Spring 2010
CLAS 3300Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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?
Course was offered Spring 2012
CLAS 3400The City of Rome in Antiquity (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (1.00 - 4.00)
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 5010Proseminar (3.00)
Introduction to Classical philology and its methods. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 5250Ancient Greek Religion (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 Spring 2010
CLAS 5300Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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?
Course was offered Spring 2012
CLAS 5559New Course in Classics (1.00 - 4.00)
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 Spring 2012, Spring 2010
CLAS 6150World Mythology (3.00)
An introduction to those myths from Greece and Rome that have had the greatest importance for teachers of English. The emphasis will be on the structure and recurring images in important myths, with attention to specific ways in which those are processed in the originals and then reconsidered in subsequent texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 6559New Course in Classics (1.00 - 4.00)
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
Greek
GREE 1010Elementary Greek (4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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/.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
GREE 1020Elementary Greek (4.00)
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 (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Xenophon and Plato. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
GREE 2020Intermediate Greek II (3.00)
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 (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 1010, 1020.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
GREE 2240The New Testament II (3.00)
Selections from the Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.vvirginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020 or equivalent.
GREE 3010Advanced Reading in Greek (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
GREE 3020Advanced Reading in Greek (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Spring 2013
GREE 3030Advanced Reading in Greek (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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.
Course was offered Fall 2009
GREE 3040Advanced Reading in Greek (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010
GREE 4993Independent Study (3.00)
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5010Survey of Greek Literature to the end of the Fifth Century (3.00)
Lectures with readings from Homer through Thucydides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Fall 2010
GREE 5020Survey of Later Greek Literature (3.00)
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/.
GREE 5030Classical Greek Prose (3.00)
Selections illustrating the development of prose style in the fifth and fourth centuries, b.c. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5040Later Greek Prose (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5080Greek Epigraphy (3.00)
Studies the inscriptions of the ancient Greeks. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5090Prose Composition (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Translation from English into Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2012
GREE 5100Homer (3.00)
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 Spring 2011
GREE 5110Hesiod (3.00)
Reading of the Works and Days and Theogony, with study of their place in the literary tradition. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5120Greek Lyric Poetry (3.00)
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 Fall 2011
GREE 5130Pindar (3.00)
Reading of selections from the Odes, and study of the development of the choral lyric in Greek poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5140Aeschylus Oresteia (3.00)
Reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and Eumenides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5150Sophocles (3.00)
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 (3.00)
Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2013
GREE 5170Euripides (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 Spring 2012
GREE 5190Aristophanes (3.00)
Readings from selected plays of Aristophanes, with close examination of the history and development of Greek Old Comedy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5200New Comedy (3.00)
Reading of the Dyscolus and other substantial fragments, with discussion of New Comedy, its origins and its legacy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5210Plato (3.00)
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 Fall 2009
GREE 5220Aristotle (3.00)
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 5230Hellenistic Poetry (3.00)
Readings in the poets of the Hellenistic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2010
GREE 5559New Course in Greek (1.00 - 4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5993Independent Study (1.00 - 4.00)
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 (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 8010Seminar on Select Topics in Greek Literature (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 8060Greek Textual Criticism (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 8100Greek Religion (3.00)
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 2011
GREE 8130Greek Literary Criticism (3.00)
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/.
GREE 8998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 1010Elementary Latin I (4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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/.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
LATI 1016Intensive Introductory Latin (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 1020Elementary Latin II (4.00)
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 (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 1030Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive) (4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
LATI 116Intensive Introductory Latin (0.00)
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/.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 126Intensive Introductory Latin (0.00)
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/.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 2010Intermediate Latin I (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 2020Intermediate Latin II (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 216Intensive Intermediate Latin (0.00)
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/.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 226Intensive Intermediate Latin (0.00)
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/.
Course was offered Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010
LATI 3010Plautus (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Spring 2010
LATI 3020Catullus (3.00)
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 2010
LATI 3030Cicero (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Fall 2011, Fall 2009
LATI 3040Prose Composition (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 2010
LATI 3070Livy (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Selections from Livy's History. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Fall 2010
LATI 3080Horace (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Spring 2011
LATI 3090Introduction to Mediaeval Latin (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Selections of Mediaeval Latin prose and verse. 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 3100Vergil (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Selections from Vergil's Aeneid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2012, Fall 2009
LATI 3110Ovid (3.00)
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/.
Course was offered Fall 2012, Fall 2010
LATI 3120Pliny's Letters (3.00)
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 2011
LATI 3130Roman Satire (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 3559New Course in Latin (1.00 - 4.00)
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 4559New Course in Latin (1.00 - 4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (3.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5010History of Republican Latin Literature (3.00)
Lectures with readings from the beginning to the end of the Republic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5020History of Latin Literature of the Empire (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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 (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2010
LATI 5050Latin Paleography. (3.00)
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/.
LATI 5060Roman Comedy (3.00)
Studies selected plays of Plautus and Terence. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5070Latin Elegy (3.00)
Studies selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5080Roman Satire (3.00)
Studies the satiric fragments from the Roman Republic and Horace's Sermones; the origins of Roman Satire. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5090Roman Literary Criticism (3.00)
Studies Roman literary theory, with readings from the Rhetorica ad Herrenium, Cicero's works on the principles of oratory, Horace's Ars Poetica, and Quintilian. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5100Lucretius (3.00)
Selections from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and the development of Roman Eipcureanism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5110Catullus (3.00)
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 Spring 2013
LATI 5130Cicero's Philosophical Works (3.00)
Focuses on the ethical and epistemological or on the theological or political treatises. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5140Cicero's Rhetorical Works (3.00)
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 5150Sallust (3.00)
Studies the historical monographs Catilina and Jurgurtha in their literary and historical setting, with attention to the remains of the Histories and other contemporary documents. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5160Vergil's Aeneid (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2011
LATI 5170Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5180Horace's Odes (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Course was offered Spring 2010
LATI 5190Livy (3.00)
Selected readings from the Ab urbe condita. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5200Ovid's Metamorphoses (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5210Ovid's Love Poetry (3.00)
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 (3.00)
Selections from Tacitus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5230Petronius (3.00)
Studies Petronius' Satyricon and the development of fiction-writing in classical antiquity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5240Juvenal (3.00)
Studies the satires of Juvenal and the development of satire among the Romans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5250Seneca's Philosophical Works (6.00)
Studies selected philosophical texts of Seneca, chiefly the Epistulae Morales and the nature and development of Roman Stoicism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5260Latin Epic after Vergil (3.00)
Studies readings from Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5270Apuleius Metamorphoses (3.00)
Reading of the text and study of the work's influence on subsequent literature and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5280Christian Latin Writings of the Roman Empire (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5559New Course in Latin (1.00 - 4.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (3.00)
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 (3.00)
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.
Course was offered Summer 2011
LATI 7060Roman Religion (3.00)
Examines the institutions, practices, and attitudes associated with Roman religion, focusing chiefly on aspects of Roman religion as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and devoting itself primarily to the Republican and early imperial periods. Cross listed as HIEU 7012. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 7070Fragmentary Roman Historians (3.00)
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 (3.00)
A study of the readings in the revised Advanced Placement Examination
Course was offered Summer 2011
LATI 7559New Course in Latin (3.00)
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 (3.00)
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 8060Latin Textual Criticism (3.00)
Studies advanced problems in Latin palaeography and in the transmission of Latin texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 8998Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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 (1.00 - 12.00)
Offered
Fall 2013
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/.