12002

LAT 107 Accelerated Elementary Latin

Benjamin Stevens

M T W Th .

10:10 – 11:30 am

HEG 201

FLLC

A rapid introduction to the classical Latin language. We seek to master morphology, syntax, and essential vocabulary so as to achieve sufficient fluency for continuous readings in unedited prose and poetry. We also consider Latin literary history, focusing on the Late Republic and the Augustan Age. No prerequisite, but some preference will be given to students who have successfully completed the survey of the literature in Lat 207. This course prepares students for Lat 201 in fall 2012. Class size: 16

12118

LAT 202 Intermediate Latin II

Carolyn Dewald

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 306

FLLC

We will read Livy Book I and chunks of Sallust and perhaps Cicero, and we’ll use the opportunity also to consolidate our command of Latin grammar. We will consider the nature of Roman historiography – what constituted ancient history, for the Romans, as well. Class size: 15

12168

LAT 302 Livy & the Augustan Age

William Mullen

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 200

FLLC

Most of the course will be spent reading in two chronological areas of Livy’s vast history of Rome. The first will consist of passages from the opening books about the first kings, and here we will have an opportunity to take the measure of Georges Dumézil’s controversial theory that the legends out of which Livy’s fashioned his rationalized chronicles of the first kings were in fact drawn from Proto-Indo-European “tripartite” mythology. The second chronological area will be high points of the Punic Wars, and with respect to this part it is recommended that students also consider taking CLAS 265, “Carthage and Rome”, course this semester (all in English). In order to give ourselves breaks from a single historian’s prose style, we will pause periodically to read a few of the odes of Horace most in resonance with Livy’s themes, and also the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, fascinating mainly for the choice of deceptive political titles which prompted Gibbon’s comment: “The system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus… may be defined as an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth.” Students are free to make other suggestions for short readings from the Augustan age as breaks between our longer stretches of Livy. Class size: 10

12169

LAT 404 Livy & the Augustan Age

William Mullen

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 200

FLLC

See above. Class size: 10