Classical Languages
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...
Intermediate Greek
Classical Languages
Intermediate Greek
This sequence continues the study of ancient Greek from the first year. By the end of the second term, students will read adapted selections from Herodotus, who wrote about the Persian Wars with a multicultural sensibility ahead of his time. In the third...
Elementary Greek – Intensive
Classical Languages
Elementary Greek – Intensive
This accelerated introductory sequence is designed for students who wish to complete the Greek requirement for the Classical Diploma (Latin concentration) in just one year. It covers the basic vocabulary, structure, and grammar of Attic Greek in two and a...
Plato’s Crito – Intensive
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Plato’s Crito – Intensive
This course begins with a review of beginning Greek that includes readings in Xenophon’s Memorabilia and then turns to the study of Plato’s Crito, a prose dialogue in which Socrates discusses the proper response of a citizen condemned unjustly by...
Plato’s Apology – Intensive
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Plato’s Apology – Intensive
Students read Plato’s Apology in its entirety. While continuing the study of Greek prose grammar and style, this course presents students with the fundamental challenge of Plato’s Socrates, a thinker who refused to expound doctrine but demanded...
Homer’s Iliad – Intensive
Classical Languages
Homer’s Iliad – Intensive
Homer’s Iliad is the earliest work of Western literature and perhaps its greatest. In this course, students will read Book 1 in the original Greek, attuning themselves to what Matthew Arnold gave as the dominant characteristics of Homeric style:...
Greek Tragedy – Intensive
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Greek Tragedy – Intensive
Students will read a play written by one of the three extant Greek tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Discussion and research may include such topics as comparison of other tragedies, ancient theatre production, the tragic literary tradition and...