This course is parallel to GRE 302. This seminar is designed to provide an integrative capstone experience for all Greek, Latin, and classics majors. This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of Latin grammar, accompanied by some practice in reading the language. This course is the continuation of LAT 101. By consolidating their knowledge of grammar and building their vocabulary, students are able to read Latin with increased ease and pleasure.
Students focus on precise and lucid translation from Latin to English.
In this course, students read selections, in the original Latin, from works in theology, history, biography, fiction, and poetry. This course is a careful reading in Latin of some of the Aeneid or the Metamorphoses , with the entire poem read in English, to enable students to appreciate the poetry and Vergil's or Ovid's presentation of Augustan Rome against the background of its historical and literary heritage. This course includes readings in the original Latin of works by eyewitnesses to the profound changes that Rome experienced during the late republic and early empire. It gives considerable attention to the literary intentions of the author and to the light those intentions throw on contemporary political feelings and postures. This course includes readings from Tacitus' Annales or Livy's Ab Urbe Condita , examining the authors' prose styles and the historical contexts in which they wrote.