Classical Languages
Cicero and Latin Prose – Intensive
Classical Languages
Cicero and Latin Prose – Intensive
Quintilian said, “For posterity, the name of Cicero has come to be regarded as the name of eloquence itself.” In this accelerated course, students will read Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline at a faster pace than in Latin 310 and will...
Vergil
Classical Languages
Vergil
This sequence is for those students who have taken the Latin 310/320/400 sequence and who wish to go beyond the language requirement. This sequence fulfills the Latin requirement for the Classical Diploma. The 510/520/530 sequence offers a close reading of...
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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
Classical Languages
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...