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VERGIL'S GEORGICS, book 2. Prerequisite: ability to read Latin well; $300 for six two-hour classes (Sept.-Dec.). For those interested in continuing, this class will continue in 2010. Application has been made to the MA Education Dept. to give PDPs for this course.

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OTHER LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE COURSES
--Introduction to Classical Latin.
--Ecclesiastical Latin. Latin basics for those wishing to read church authors.
--Intermediate Latin. A bridge to advanced Latin, using parts of Petronius's Satyricon.

Courses in Specific Latin Authors and Subjects

(If you would like to read authors who are not on this list, please let us know.)
--Latin Conversation. The art of speaking Latin, a royal road to maintaining Latin skill.
--Plautus. Poenulus. A comedy with kidnapping, romance, and a contest between lover and procurer.
--Plautus. Menaechmi. A comedy of mistaken identities.
--Lucretius. De Rerum Natura (on the nature of things), a presentation of the atomic theory and a universe based on natural law.
--Catullus (1st c. B.C.). One of Rome's greatest lyric poets.
--Horace.
--Cicero. Pro Caelio. Cicero defends (56 B.C.) Caelius against a charge of violence, brought after he ended his affair with Clodia (probably the Lesbia in Catullus's poems).
--Cicero. Letters to wife and family.
--Cicero. In Catalinam. Cicero's 1st speech against Cataline, who conspired against Rome, 63 B.C.
--Cicero. Pro Archia. Defense (c. 62 B.C.) of a poet turns into a defense of the humanities.
--Cicero. De Officiis: Selections. This course focuses on the influence of Cicero on the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
--Cicero. Selections from Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), tracing a soul's path into an afterlife.
--Vergil (died 19 B.C.). Selections from the Aeneid. Adventures of Aeneas after Troy fell.
--Augustus. Res Gestae. Accomplishments of Emperor Augustus (died A.D. 14) as he sought to present them.
--Ovid (died A.D. 18). Amores. Selections, mainly celebrating the lovely Corinna.
--Ovid Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Instructions for dealing with lovers.
--Ovid. Heroides (selections). Poems in the form of love letters from Penelope to Ulysses and from Ariadne to Theseus, etc.


Passages from Roman authors (separate courses):
--Women in Rome.
--Roman Religion.
--Roman Education.
--Doctors in Ancient Rome.
--Latin Biography: Nepos's Atticus; Suetonius's Caligula.
--Otium, Labor, Fama. Selections from Martial, Pliny, and Cicero on leisure versus work and duty.
--Witches. Selections on witchcraft from Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius.


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