Classical Languages
Special Readings
Classical Languages
Special Readings
The following courses are those in the normal sequence that fulfill the language requirement. At times, based on the ability and training of students, the department may advance students to a higher-level...
Lucretius
Classical Languages
Lucretius
Vergil said of Lucretius: “Happy is he who could understand the causes of things.” Lucretius was an ardent Epicurean who believed that the world was composed of indivisible particles called atoms and that the soul, also composed of atoms, perished...
Elementary Latin
Classical Languages
Elementary Latin
This introduction to the study of Latin is for beginning students and for those who have previously studied some Latin but do not place into Latin 210 or TR1. The most common forms and syntax are covered, except for the subjunctive...
Plautus
Classical Languages
Plautus
The comedies of Plautus are the earliest complete works of Latin literature we have. Adapting the plots of earlier Greek plays, Plautus made them his own by adding such distinctively Roman elements as the role of the clever slave, coarse Latin humor, and lots...
Intermediate Latin
Classical Languages
Intermediate Latin
This sequence continues to introduce students to additional forms and syntax, including the subjunctive mood. After completion of this material, students will have their first taste of authentic, unadapted Latin prose. Not just a general, conqueror and...
Elementary Latin – Intensive
Classical Languages
Elementary Latin – Intensive
This introductory sequence serves two purposes: First, it offers students who have studied Latin previously, but are not placed into LAT210, a slightly condensed and accelerated path through the material covered in LAT110-230. Second, it satisfies the Latin...
Intermediate Latin: Conversational
Classical Languages
Intermediate Latin: Conversational
Dr. Daniel Gallagher of Cornell University has said, “Latin, like any language, is mastered only when one can speak it. Yet the goal of spoken Latin, unlike modern languages, is not necessarily conversational fluency. Rather, by formulating one’s...
Cicero
Classical Languages
Cicero
Quintilian said, “For posterity, the name of Cicero has come to be regarded as the name of eloquence itself.” In this course, students will read Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline and discover how the consul Cicero used his rhetorical...
Latin Prose
Classical Languages
Latin Prose
Students will read selections of Latin prose from Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Seneca, Tacitus and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. What these selections all have in common is that they reveal the attitudes of elite Roman men toward women, slaves...
Ovid
Classical Languages
Ovid
This course offers an introduction to poetry and meter through selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the epic poem that breathes life into our understanding of so many Greco-Roman myths. The flight of Daedalus and Icarus, the love of Pyramus and Thisbe,...