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COURSES - FALL 2003

LATIN

LAT101 - Beginner's Latin
An introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of Latin designed to develop students' fluency in reading and understanding simple Latin prose and verse.
Professor Denis Feeney
Class 1: 9:00-9:50am - MTWTh - Feeney - Easy Pyne 029
Class 2: 12:30-1:20pm - MTWTh - Seo - Frist 207

LAT104 - Intensive Intermediate Latin
An alternative to LAT105 for students with two years or more of secondary school Latin who wish to review basic Latin forms, syntax, and vocabulary. Approximately six weeks of intensive review followed by readings from a selection of Latin poetry and prose.
Professor Andrew Feldherr
Class: 11:00-11:50am - MTWTh - Aaron Burr Hall 317

LAT105 - Intermediate Latin: Catullus and His Age
We will read a selection of letters in Latin prose and verse by Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, and Pliny between 60 BCE and 100 CE, in order to understand the place that this important form of communication had in Roman culture. Starting at 1-2 pages of prose (or equivalent) per meeting, we will aim to double facility, accuracy, and speed by the end of the course.
Professor Janet Martin
Class 1: 11:00-11:50am - MTWTh - Reynolds - Aaron Burr Hall 302
Class 2: 12:30-1:20pm - MTWTh - Martin - Aaron Burr Hall 317

LAT205 - Roman Letters
We will read a selection of letters in Latin prose and verse by Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, and Pliny between 60 BCE and 100 CE, in order to understand the place that this important form of communication had in Roman culture. Starting at 1-2 pages of prose (or equivalent) per meeting, we will aim to double facility, accuracy, and speed by the end of the course.
Professor Michael Flower
Class: 11:00-12:20pm - MW - Marx Hall 101

LAT337 - Roman Republic Historians: Sallust and Livy
The course offers an introduction to the two major historians of the late republic and early empire, Sallust and Livy. In addition to close readings of both authors' works, we will focus on such larger issues as the political role of the historian, and the impact contemporary concerns had on each writer's shaping of Rome's past.
Professor Harriet Flower
Class: 3:00-4:20pm - MW - East Pyne 043

LAT340 - Roman Satire
Introduction to Roman verse satire, chiefly the works of Horace and Juvenal, with at least one satire of Persius. Some attention to other ancient satirical texts and to the reception of Roman satire in Medieval Latin and modern literature.
Professor Janet Martin
Class: 10:00-10:50am - MWF - Aaron Burr Hall 317

 

 

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