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

Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project.Prerequisites: LATI 4998

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.

This course examines the major prose authors of Ancient Greek by reading both ancient accounts of their style and recent linguistic scholarship covering the syntactic and pragmatic issues relevant to the understanding of prose style (e.g. word order, particle use). Rather than approaching the topic through composition, the class will read selections from the ancient authors in close conjunction with pertinent linguistic and stylistic literature.

This course will explore the language of Greek epic poetry (chiefly Homer, but also Hesiod, the Hymns, and Apollonius). What is the nature of the epic Kunstsprache? How does its syntax differ from that of Classical Attic? To what extent can linguistic features be used to date the poems? How much flexibility does the poet have in the use of formulas? How do later poets manipulate the traditional linguistic patterns inherited from earlier epic?

This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature

Reading of Lucan's epic De bello civili in the light of modern scholarship, with attention to various related topics (textual transmission, scholia, later reception).

New course in Greek. 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/.

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