LAT 320: Latin Poets

LAT 320
Latin Poets
(3 credits)
Class Size: 10-20

Faculty: Jeffrey Carnes, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Administrative Contact: Kennia Delafe, Assistant Director, Project Advance  

Course Catalog Description

Readings from selected Latin poets. Review of grammar and syntax. Latin metrics and prosody.

Course Overview

Latin 320 begins with prose texts (Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations, Sallust’s De Catilinae Coniuratione), then moves on to poetry (selections from Catullus and Lucretius). Students will read a variety of secondary sources on the history of the late Republic and Early Empire. They also will learn how to scan and read the Latin meters of the poems they’re reading, and will do some brief English-to-Latin translation exercises. Students can expect to read 60 to 100 lines per week.

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