Classical Languages
Tacitus
Classical Languages
Tacitus
Agrippina, the sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was at the heart of the power and intrigues of the Julio-Claudian emperors for several decades. She is one of the most colorful characters in Tacitus’ history of that period with...
Martial and Petronius
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Martial and Petronius
Although they wrote in different genres – Martial was a master of the epigram, while Petronius wrote something resembling a modern novel – the works of these first century CE authors are both written in language that is closer to the street than...
Vergil – Intensive
Classical Languages
Vergil – Intensive
The 511/521/531 sequence offers a close reading of selections from Vergil’s epic Aeneid, Latin poetry’s defining achievement and an enduring monument of world literature. This intensive sequence covers more material than the 510/520/530 sequence...
Catullus – Intensive
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Catullus – Intensive
This course is dedicated to reading selections from the short carmina of a revolutionary young lyric poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus. Love, hate, betrayal, loyalty, invective and the art of writing itself are among the array of topics that Catullus explored in...
Horace – Intensive
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Horace – Intensive
In this course, students study many of Horace’s lyric poems (Odes) and at least one of his Satires. Horace used his verse to discuss topics essential to fundamental human happiness in the face of inevitable changes both personal and political. In...
Ovid – Intensive
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Ovid – Intensive
This course explores in depth the wittiest of Roman poets, Publius Ovidius Naso. First, we will read three of his Amores, the love poems that made him famous; then, the opening of the Ars Amatoria, the seduction manual that got him in trouble with the emperor...
Greek Poetry – Intensive
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Greek Poetry – Intensive
Depending on the interests of the students and instructor, this course offers readings in either Greek epic or lyric poetry. In the epic sequence, students will read at least two books of Homer’s Odyssey in their entirety and selections from the full...
Latin Elegy
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Latin Elegy
Quintilian famously said, “In elegy too we challenge the Greeks.” Although indebted to the Greeks, the Roman elegists created a kind of personal love poetry never seen before in literature: a cycle of poems describing a love affair with one woman...
Plato’s Republic
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Plato’s Republic
A.N. Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was but a footnote to Plato. This course provides a close study of the Republic, perhaps Plato’s most important and influential work. Written as a dialogue between Socrates and others, including...
Latin Prose Composition
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Latin Prose Composition
In this course, students complete an intense review of Latin grammar while also reading selections of several Latin authors with an eye toward identifying the stylistic elements that make each author unique. Students then put their Latin knowledge to the...