The emphasis will be on close reading of primary texts by Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Symeon the New Theologian, among others. Participants are expected to translate from the original Greek texts as well as read a variety of secondary sources. A continuation of LAT 101-102 or 112 that provides an introduction to the prose and poetry of the Republican period, with emphasis on the close reading, translation, study, and discussion of representative texts and attention to their characteristic language, syntax, and style. The course also features continued review of the grammatical principles of Latin and expansion of vocabulary. Designed for students who have had two or more years of high school Latin and for those whose study of Latin has been interrupted.
Class meets five hours per week.
For concentrators, and others with permission of the chair. Horace Close reading and study of the poems of Horace. Designed primarily to equip students to read patristic and medieval Latin texts with an appreciation of their characteristic vocabulary, syntax, style, and pronunciation, and secondarily to introduce them to the principal areas of medieval Latin scholarship, including bibliographies, great collections and repertories of sources, and lexica and other reference aids for the study of Latin works composed in the Middle Ages. Discussion as necessary of ancillary issues, including developments in Latin syntax and phonology and the crafting and revision of rhetorical and metrical forms.