Upon completion of the course, students will be prepared to continue in the regular second-year Greek sequence at Yale. A six-week intensive elementary summer course in New Testament Greek is regularly offered at the Yale Divinity School. An intensive course for students with little or no prior study of Latin. Upon completion of the course students will be prepared for more advanced courses in Latin prose or poetry, and for departmental Latin reading examinations. The origins, flowering, and decline of Attic theater as an exploration of universal human themes, and as spectacular mass entertainment rooted in the particulars of an ancient cultural milieu.
All works read in translation.
An intensive introduction to Latin prose. Readings may include selections from Cicero, Sallust, Ovid, and other prose authors, and will vary from year to year. Close attention to syntax, style, and translation techniques will be balanced by literary interpretation and consideration of the works in a wider cultural context. One year of college Latin.