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LAT 101 Beginning Latin I

James Romm

M T W Th .

10:30 - 11:30 am

OLIN 310

FLLC

This two-semester sequence is designed to bring students with no prior knowledge of Latin to the level of reading ancient poetry and prose. In the first semester we will focus on grammatical exercises and drills, but gradually work toward reading short selections from classical Roman and medieval literature. Class size: 15

91259

LAT 201 Intermediate Latin: Caesar, Catullus, Lucretius

James Romm

. T . Th .

11:50 1:10 pm

OLIN 304

FLLC

This class will build reading proficiency by focusing on the prose and poetry of the Late Republican period. Grammar drill and review will accompany selections from the three great stylists of the 60's and 50's B.C. Students with high-school Latin are welcome to enroll but should consult with the instructor. Class size: 10

91239

LAT 301 Advanced Latin: Horace

William Mullen

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

RKC 200

FLLC

We will read samples of all four genres Horace chose to work in at successive phases of his literary life, which spanned from the uncertainty of the late phases of the Civil War to an eminence and security so great under Augustus that when the Princeps asked him to be his personal secretary Horace modestly declined, preferring to continue composing verses on his Sabine farm. Thus we will read a few Epodes and Satires, then many of the Odes, and finally one or two of the great final Epistles. Much attention will be paid to the poets positioning of his own persona over against that of chosen Greek predecessors, most notably Alcaeus in lyric poetry, and his virtuoso transformation of Greek lyric meters into Roman equivalents with their own differentiating weight and wit. Since many students will have read recently the two other great Augustan writers, Vergil and Livy, we will pause at a few points to take the literary measure of The Age of Augustus, and to that end will look at the varying points of view on that phenomenon from a range of scholars. As final treat, we will survey the prodigious variety of masterful English translations, from Elizabethan times to the present, of Horace into English, most the odes. Class size: 8

91240

LAT 404 Horace

William Mullen

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

RKC 200

FLLC

See above. Class size: 5