Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
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 …
Translation and analysis of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the original ancient Latin.
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 …
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 …
Demosthenes has long enjoyed a reputation as the best of the Greek orators - a view found, for instance, in Cicero, who knew a thing or two about giving a …
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 …
This course is designed to introduce students to the work of Seneca. The main focus of the course will be on Seneca's political thought. We will be reading selections from …
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 …