The MA in Classics at UVA immerses students in the cultural, linguistic, and philosophical traditions of classical antiquity. With deep training in Latin and Ancient Greek, and focused studies in epic poetry, historiography, and ancient philosophy, students explore the legacy of the Greco-Roman world. This program prepares graduates for PhD work or careers in education, museum curation, and humanities scholarship.
Translation and commentary on Cicero’s philosophical treatises
Philological analysis of Homeric similes
Reception of Roman law in Enlightenment political thought
Gender dynamics in Aristophanic comedy
Epigraphy and the political culture of the Roman Republic
Comparative study of Hesiod and biblical wisdom literature
Historical linguistics of Indo-European roots in Greek
Thucydides’ influence on modern historiography
Philosophical readings of Plato’s political dialogues
Satire and social critique in Juvenal’s Satires
Intertextuality in Virgil’s Aeneid and earlier epics
Archaeological case study: Roman domestic architecture in Pompeii
Translation theory applied to Latin elegiac poetry
Rhetoric in ancient court speeches from Lysias to Cicero
Myth and ritual in Greek tragedy
Stoic ethics and its revival in modern virtue theory
Analysis of religious syncretism in the Hellenistic period
Digital mapping of ancient battle sites using GIS
Explore the ancient world through language, literature, and history with UVA’s MA in Classics.
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