Students also work on sight translation of the adventure story Daimon . One of the great literary forms, the epic, reached new heights in Virgil's Aeneid . Style, figures of speech, and idioms are examined in-depth. The history of the Civil and Punic Wars provides a dramatic backdrop for this masterpiece. This advanced course in lyric and elegiac poetry challenges our best Latin scholars.
Students study Horatian odes and the works of Catullus.
They'll examine the Greek influence on the development of Roman literary styles during the Augustan Age. While the emphasis is on speaking and understanding Spanish, students also devote time to basic reading and writing. Return to main Foreign Languages menu Spanish II Building on the basics of Spanish I, this course introduces more-advanced grammar and vocabulary. Students are equipped to understand and converse with Spanish speakers with relative ease about familiar topics. They also should be able to write simple paragraphs and correspondence.