From this page you can

• Consult the syllabus
• Explore related links (coming sooner than Bodo's).
• View the topics for paper #1 and paper # 2
• View the study guide for the midterm exam or the final exam
• Visit the University of Virginia Home Page, including
• 2003/04 Academic Calendar
• Fall 2003 Exam Schedule
• Check out the UVA Classics Department
• Learn your classmates' darkest secrets
• ... or just procrastinate.

Online overheads (check back for later lectures)

• Introduction: Geography and Sources
• The Greek Gods
• Prehistory & Bronze Age
• The Dark Age & Homer
• Homer and History
• The Homeric World
• Greece and the Near East
• The Odyssey
• Archaic Society & Politics
• Archaic Art
• Poets and Philosophers
• Sparta
• Persian Wars
• Athenian Democracy & Law
• Classical Art
• The Sophists
• Other Athenians: Slaves, Women, Metics
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Religion in the Polis
• The Peloponnesian War
• Socrates & Plato
• Aristotle & the Fourth Century
• Alexander & The Hellenistic World
• Hellenistic Religion & Philosophy
• Hellenistic Art & Literature
• Rome & Beyond

• The online study guide for the final exam is now up. Click on the link above or click here.
• Course evaluations Thursday Dec. 4 (bring your trusty #2 pencil ...)
• HAYS SECTION (Fri. 2 PM) ONLY: Read Herondas Mimes 1-7 for Friday, Dec. 5 (Marinas sections come with review questions as on syllabus)
• Note that Paper #2 is due Tuesday Nov. 25 in lecture (not Monday Nov. 24)
• CHANGE TO SYLLABUS: For section on Friday, Nov. 7 read Aristophanes's Clouds (NOT Lysistrata!)
• Topics for Paper #2 are now posted. Click on the link above or click here.
• Upcoming lecture of interest: Michael Hoff, University of Nebraska, speaking on "Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Marbles: Two Hundred Years of Controversy," Thursday, October 30 at 5PM in 160 Campbell Hall (School of Architecture).
• In addition to the midterm, don't forget map quiz #2 in section this Friday
• The study guide for the midterm is now posted. Click on the link above or click here.
• Note change to syllabus for October 14 (no lecture) and 16 (revised topic and assignment)
• Study guide for midterm exam will be posted by this weekend
• GH office hours cancelled Thursday, Sept. 25
• IMPORTANT: Schedule change due to hurricane.
• Tuesday's lecture will cover Near Eastern influence (conclusion) and the Odyssey
• Thursday's lecture will cover Archaic period I (Politics & Society) and Archaic period II (Art).
• Lecture on both Tuesday and Thursday may run the full 75 minutes.
• Please bring informal writings from Friday to lecture on Tuesday.
• Due to Hurricane Isabel, all university classes have been CANCELLED on Friday, Sept. 19. Discussion sections for CLAS 201 will NOT meet.
• Topics for Paper #1 are now posted. Click on link above. (Or just click here).
• Final exam time and location are now on syllabus (2-5 PM, in Rouss 202). [Thanks to Heather Kotwas for pointing out this gap]
• Sections DO meet on Friday, August 29.