Classics 230 - Life and Literature in the Late Roman Republic

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Bard College

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The last generations of the Roman Republic experienced widespread social change resulting from dispossessions and the loss of traditional lifeways in Italy, sanctioned exploitation abroad, and increasingly intense and varied cultural contacts throughout an expanding empire. Roman authors of the period responded to these "consequences of conquest" by fashioning Latinliterary languages in diverse genres. This combination of ongoing change and linguistic experi- mentation brought problems of its own. What is the relationship between language and lived experience? What uses of language, and who among its users, are able to bring about change in politics, the economy, society, or culture? Topics covered include Latin literary history; late Roman Republican politics, society, and culture; and linguistic and cultural pluralism, purity, and policy. Readings, all in English, are drawn from Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, and Sallust, as well as from modern historiography and literary criticism.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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