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Course Criteria
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Readings in one or more Roman historical works, illuminating key themes, periods, historiographical conventions, and especially ancient historiography's role as font of moral and ethical exempla. Authors might include Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Velleius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Gregory of Tours, Suetonius, vel sim. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Boatwright, Woods, or Staff
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Readings in Roman Epic with attention to genre, language, meter, characterization, narrative structure, ancient and modern interpretation, the epic tradition in and beyond Greece and Rome, and the genre's role in construction of cultural identity. Authors might include Vergil, Ovid, and Lucan. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Janan or staff
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Readings in the form, function, history, and conventions of the Latin epistle. Material might range from the letters of Cicero, Cyprian, Augustine, Jerome, or medieval collections; from Seneca's Letters to Lucilius to Ovid's Heroides or Pliny's correspondence with the Emperor Trajan. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Boatwright, Sosin, Woods, or staff
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Readings in Roman Satire with special attention to the genre's self-critical posture and its ethical critique of Roman culture and the Latin literary tradition. Authors might include Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructors: Janan, Sosin, or staff
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Readings in Latin novel, with special attention to the form's literary predecessors and and its particular illumination of social, economic, and cultural features of the Roman world. Authors include Petronius and/or Apuleius. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Boatwright or staff
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Readings in Roman Comedy and Tragedy. Special attention to Roman 'translation' and reception of the Greek literary tradition before it; the genre's illumination of social, economic, and cultural conditions; the form's scrutiny of core cultural ideals. Authors include Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. Instructor: Janan, Woods or staff
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Readings in Roman oratory and rhetoric. Focus on negotiation of power through public speech, definitions of identity, and public construction of cultural norms. Authors and works might include Cicero, Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory, Seneca the Elder, selected speeches from Roman historians, vel sim. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Boatwright or staff
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Readings in Latin Elegy and Lyric, with special attention to Roman responses to Greek literary traditions and to the contemplation of human passions and vices, within a specifically Roman culture. Authors might include Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, Horace, and Martial. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Janan or staff
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Representative plays of Plautus and Terence with studies of the genre and its Greek forebears. Instructor: Staff
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Readings in the very Roman category of 'didactic.' How Romans thought to educate themselves and others about the world they controlled and lived in; Roman education as cultural, moral education. Authors and works might include Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Vitruvius' handbook on architecture, Lucretius' De rerum natura, Columella on farming. Students must have two years of Latin or equivalent. Instructor: Boatwright, Sosin, or staff
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