Abstract
Exceptional sequences are certain sequences of quiver representations. We intro- duce a class of objects called strand diagrams and use these to classify exceptional sequences of representations of a quiver whose underlying graph is a type A(n) Dynkin diagram. We also use variations of these objects to classify c-matrices of such quivers, to interpret exceptional sequences as linear extensions of explicitly constructed posets, and to give a simple bijection between exceptional sequences and certain saturated chains in the lattice of noncrossing partitions.