Course Description
Latin poetry, poetic syntax, meter, and style through readings from Vergil's Aeneid, including selections from Aeneid books 3, 5, or 7-12, and others.
Athena Title
VERGIL'S AENEID
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LATN 3010
Non-Traditional Format
This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive, which means that the course will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. The written assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages), and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and substantive revision.
Prerequisite
LATN 2002
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students completing Vergil's Aeneid will have read a substantial amount of the epic in Latin. Classes will focus on strategies of translation, particularly for poetry (including grammar, metrical scansion, and poetic devices). The course will be taught in seminar style. Students will be graded on the A to F grading scale and will provide end-of-course evaluations on the instruction and course content following classics department course evaluation procedures. Students will engage in critical analysis of semantic, syntactic, grammatical, stylistic, metrical, and poetic evidence. Through frequent writing exercises, students will learn to produce writing appropriate to the subject matter of epic poetry and the field of classics.
Topical Outline
I. Introduction to Vergil's Aeneid in literary and historical context II. Translation of selected passages from the epic poem