AP
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of Classics
Office location and address
B017
20 South Lawn
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22904
Biography
I was born in what is today Croatia, got my diploma in Classics at Belgrade University (Serbia), and a PhD from Heidelberg University. Before joining UVA I taught at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich for a year, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg for three years, and spent a decade at Durham University in the North East of England. In my free time, I enjoy walks with my dog, Mr Miyagi.
Publications
Courses
Credits: 3
Xenophon and Plato. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020.
Credits: 3
Studies Greek history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
Herodotus and Euripides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.
Credits: 1–4
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
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.
Credits: 3
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.
Credits: 3
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.
Credits: 3
The course explores Ancient Greek religious practices and beliefs with an emphasis on Greek religious rituals understood in the broadest terms, and hence including Greek magical practices and associated beliefs. Starting off with the rituals belonging to the realm of social interaction, and the rites of passage designed for female and male members of society respectively, female dedications etc. v. rituals specific for men.
Credits: 1–4
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1–3
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project
Credits: 1–4
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1–4
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 1–12
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/.
Credits: 3
A team-taught seminar that works by stages towards a complete first draft of the dissertation prospectus. Students will take the seminar during their sixth semester of study; instructors will be the dissertation directors of those students. Each student will register under the name of the director.
Credits: 1–12
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/.
Credits: 1–12
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/.