01:580:101
Elementary Latin I (4)
Beginning course in Latin, introducing the Latin language and its grammar and syntax.
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01:580:102
Elementary Latin II (4)
Continued beginning instruction in Latin, introducing Latin language, grammar, and syntax.
Prerequisite: 01:580:101 or permission of instructor.
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01:580:203
Intermediate Latin Prose (3)
Selections from prose authors of the late Republican and/or early Empire; e.g., Caesar, Cicero, Livy; development of skill in reading continuous passages of Latin prose.
Prerequisite: 01:580:102 or permission of instructor.
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01:580:204
Intermediate Latin Poetry (3)
Representative poems of Catullus, Horace, and Ovid, read and studied with a view to their style, imagery, and topicality. Introduction to Latin metrics.
Prerequisite: 01:580:102 or permission of instructor.
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01:580:302
Medieval Latin (3)
Readings in major Latin writings and documents of the Middle Ages.
Prerequisite: 01:580:203 or 204 or permission of instructor.
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01:580:303
Cicero: Philosophical Writings (3)
Selected philosophical dialogues and rhetorical treatises of Cicero.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:304
Cicero: Orations (3)
Selected orations of Cicero, with emphasis on the development of
Cicero's style and the significance of historical and biographical
background.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:310
Prose and Poetry in the Age of Augustus (3)
The cultural renaissance under Augustus (44 BC-AD 14), with
emphasis on the reading, in Latin, of selections from the writings of
Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, and the elegiac poets.
Prerequisite: 01:580:203 or 204 or permission of instructor. Course meets once each week jointly with students enrolled in 01:190:310 during the lecture period scheduled for that course and once separately. Students may not receive credit for both 01:190:310 and 01:580:310. Students wishing to earn language credit in Latin should enroll in Latin 01:580:310.
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01:580:321
Roman Comedy (3)
Study of the principal meters, the theater, and the staging of plays through the reading of plays of Plautus and Terence.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:323
Lucretius (3)
Readings from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura with analysis of its place
within the literary and philosophical traditions of Rome and Greece.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:324
Sallust (3)
Readings from Sallust's Jugurthine War, Histories, and
Catiline with a study of selected problems from the historical
periods relevant to those works.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:325
The History of Livy (3)
Readings from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita with a study of selected problems in Roman Republican history.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:327
Latin Elegy (3)
Survey of Latin poetry written in elegiac meter, with selections from Catullus, Tibullus, Sulpicia, Propertius, and/or Ovid.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:328
Roman Satire (3)
Selected poems of Horace, Martial, and Juvenal and a study of their interrelationship.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:329
Tacitus (3)
Reading of a minor work of Tacitus and/or selections from the Annals of Tacitus with an investigation of their value as sources for Imperial history in the first century AD.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:335
Latin Prose Composition (3)
Review of syntax and prose style; composition in Latin and translation into Latin of continuous passages of prose.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:369,370
The Seminar in Latin (3,3)
Extensive and rapid reading in Latin literature from the early Republic to the Empire.
Primarily for juniors and seniors majoring in classical humanities; open to others with permission of instructor.
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01:580:401
Advanced Study of the Poetry of Ovid (3)
Readings and interpretation of selected works of Ovid. A study of the
poet's contribution to Roman literature and his importance in the
Western literary tradition.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:402
Advanced Study of Vergil's Aeneid (3)
Readings of Vergil's Aeneid with an analysis of selected problems in its interpretation.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:403
Readings in Latin Literature I: Literature of the Republic (3)
Prose and poetry of Rome from its beginnings in the third century BC to the end of the Republic in the first century BC. Extensive selections from epic, drama, lyric, elegy, pastoral, and other poetry and from history, rhetoric, and oratory.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:404
Readings in Latin Literature II: Literature of the Empire (3)
Prose and poetry of imperial Rome. Extensive selections from epic, history, satire, the novel, and other genres, with emphasis on writers of the Augustan and Neronian ages.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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01:580:407
Advanced Study of the Poetry of Horace (3)
Intensive reading of Horace's poems with emphasis on the variety of style and content.
Prerequisites: 01:580:203, 204.
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