Latin

• 14-144 Latin I
  Essentials of grammar, composition, and reading. Students will acquire basic translation skills and build a core vocabulary, and they will support their language learning with the study of Roman society and culture. (Fall)
• 14-154 Latin II
  Continued study of grammar, composition and reading. Students will learn more complex syntactical constructions and begin translating more sustained Latin passages. Prerequisite: Latin 14-144, or equivalent placement. (Spring)
• 14-164 Latin III
  Students will build on the fundamentals they acquired in introductory Latin and strengthen their skills in translation and interpretation through a variety of Latin prose and poetry texts. Readings and cultural studies of poets such as Catullus and Horace to prose writers of oratory (Cicero), natural history (the two Plinys), and society and politics (Tacitus) to later works such as those of Hildegard of Bingen (twelfth-century polymath and author of causae et curae) and Carolus Linnaeus (eighteenth-century botanist). Prerequisite: Latin 14-154, or equivalent placement. (Fall)
• 14-344 Intermediate Readings Latin Literature
  This course is specifically designed for intermediate students who have completed three semesters of Latin. In addition to strengthening skills in translation, interpretation, and textual analysis, students will encounter Latin texts in their cultural, historical, and political contexts and become familiar with scholarly commentaries. May be repeated with change in topic. Topics offered on a rotating basis of prose and poetry. The range of topics includes readings in the epic poetry of Vergil's Aeneid; Cicero's public speeches and letters in their socio-political context; the poetic corpus of Catullus; Ovid's Metamorphoses; and Livy's history of Rome. Prerequisite: Latin 14-164; or equivalent placement. (Fall, Spring) (H)
• 14-404 Advanced Readings in Latin Literature
  This course is specifically designed for advanced students and includes rigorous study of Latin texts in focused thematic areas. Students will encounter the texts in their cultural, historical, and political contexts and gain greater familiaritywith issues of composition and transmission, as well as current interpretive approaches and important secondary scholarship. May be repeated with change in topic. Topics offered on a rotating basis of prose and poetry. The range of topics includes readings in Latin elegiac poetry; political history of the early principate in Tacitus and Suetonius; the extensive epistolary corpus of Pliny the Younger; and the Roman epigraphic habit. Prerequisite: Latin 14-164, or equivalent placement. (Fall, Spring) (H)