This course provides an introduction to the Latin language for beginners, with explanation of basic grammatical concepts. Students begin reading -- and writing -- Latin within the first few weeks of the course. Course text: Keller and Russell, Learn to Read Latin (Yale University Press). No prerequisites. For further information on Penn's Latin curriculum, including placement and language requirement:

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/latin/index.html

Section 301 MWF 10-11:00 R 10:30-11:30 Beckelhymer COHN 493
Section 302 MWRF 11-12:00 Gillespie COHN 204
Section 601 TR 6:30-8:15pm Urban COHN 203

This course introduces students to fluent reading in Latin combined with grammar-review. It focuses on texts in prose and poetry that deal with this literary and cultural topic: The Dream.

Prerequisites: LATN 102 (or equivalent) or a score of 550 in SAT II or the Latin Placement Test; or permission of the instructor. For further information on Penn's Latin curriculum, including placement and language requirement: 

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/latin/index.html

Section 301 MWF 10:00-11:00 Jungwirth COHN 203
Section 302 MWF 11:00-12:00 Closs COHN 203

Section 601 MW 4:30-6:00 DRLB 4C2 Knibbs

We will read Virgil’s Bucolica and Horace’s Sermones, two innovative poetry collections published in the 30s BCE, when Rome’s future hung uncertain between republic and empire. Soldiers were mustering in West and East, campaigns fought with increasing violence every year. What to save from the wreck of the past? What future for civil society? What role for verse? In Virgil’s answer, as in Horace’s, talk is key. Some of these conversations are harmonious, others contentious, but all are measured—literally, in meter. Avoiding the grand themes of reges et proelia, both poets offer the humble individual, be he shepherd or man-in-the-street, as salvage and, perhaps, solution.

(Permission required - Please complete attached permission form and see Department staff to register) registration form

(Permission required - Please see Department staff to register)
For graduate students in other departments needing individualized study in Latin literature.

Selections from the correspondence of Cicero, Pliny, Fronto, Ausonius, Symmachus, Sidonius, and others in their literary and historical contexts.

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For doctoral candidates.