2025-26

Accelerated Introduction to Classical Latin introduces students to the fundamentals of classical Latin through a sequence of two courses.  By the end of this second and final course, students will have encountered all the most commonly used Latin grammar and an even larger collection of Latin vocabulary.  Their reading proficiency continues to increase by engaging longer, more complex, and more interesting Latin.  The second half of the course subsequently focuses on the reading of increasingly longer selections from authentic Latin texts.  Through these readings, students explore a range of authors and genres, who touch upon various aspects of the Roman world, not only the history of the city, but also the society, culture, politics, and religion of its people.  Successful completion of this course will prepare students for intermediate Latin courses (LATN 20100-20200-20300). This course is appropriate for students who have completed LATN 111 or earned an equivalent language placement. 

Accelerated Introduction to Classical Latin introduces students to the fundamentals of classical Latin through a sequence of two courses.  By the end of this first course, students will have encountered nearly all the most commonly used Latin grammar and a large collection of Latin vocabulary.  They will also develop their reading proficiency by engaging longer, more complex, and more interesting sentences and passages of Latin, including selections from authentic texts.  Through these readings, students will touch upon various aspects of the Roman world, engaging not only with the history of the city, but also with the society, culture, politics, and religion of its people.  Successful completion of this course will prepare students for LATN 112. This course is appropriate for students who have not previously studied ancient Latin. 

Introduction to Classical Latin introduces students to the fundamentals of the Latin language through which students may access the works of Vergil, Horace, Cicero, Tacitus, and Ovid (among countless others).  This course represents the third and final step in the sequence.  Course work continues to involve the reading and writing of Latin, alongside the further development of vocabulary, the formal study of grammar, and the critical appreciation of composition and style.  Students engage with increasingly longer selections from authentic texts as the course progresses.  Successful completion of this course will prepare students for intermediate coursework beginning with LATN 201.  This course is appropriate for students who have completed LATN 102 or its equivalent. 

Introduction to Classical Latin introduces students to the fundamentals of the Latin language through which students may access the works of Vergil, Horace, Cicero, Tacitus, and Ovid (among countless others).  This course represents the second step.  Course work continues to involve the reading and writing of Latin, alongside the further development of vocabulary and the formal study of grammar.  Students will increase their reading proficiency as they engage with longer, more complex, and more interesting sentences and passages, including selections from authentic texts.  Successful completion of this course will prepare students for LATN 103. This course is appropriate for students who have completed LATN 101 or its equivalent. 
 

Introduction to Classical Latin introduces students to the fundamentals of the Latin language through which students may access the works of Vergil, Horace, Cicero, Tacitus, and Ovid (among countless others).   This course represents the first step.  Course work involves the reading and writing of Latin, alongside the development of vocabulary and the formal study of grammar.  Students encounter authentic texts throughout the course.  Successful completion of this course will prepare students for LATN 101. This course is appropriate for students who have not previously studied ancient Greek. 

This course will examine the iambic, elegiac, lyric, and epinician genres of archaic and classical Greece, including the poetry of Sappho, Archilochus, Corinna, Bacchylides, Pindar, and many other. We will focus on questions of performance, genre, and context; on the texts’ relationships to each other and other ancient poetic traditions; and to a broad range of cultural, social, and political aspects of the archaic and classical Greek world(s), including sex and sexuality, class, gender, and other forms of identity, and the relationship of the individual to the community. The mythological, dramatic, and formal poetic aspects of these poems will be explored as well as questions of meter and dialect. 

Mastering Greek is an intensive Greek language course for pre-professional Hellenists. Do you find yourself fudging accents sometimes? Wondering about the use of infinitives versus participles? Pondering the future less vivid? Have you found yourself speaking Greek while looking in the mirror? This course will help you review Attic Greek from the level of the word to the short paragraph. Recommended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, especially those who aspire to teach Greek. Assignments will include extensive written homework in Attic Greek, analytic exercises, creative writing exercises, as well as regular quizzes in order to advance to strong, active mastery of the language.  

This course will examine the iambic, elegiac, lyric, and epinician genres of archaic and classical Greece, including the poetry of Sappho, Archilochus, Corinna, Bacchylides, Pindar, and many other. We will focus on questions of performance, genre, and context; on the texts’ relationships to each other and other ancient poetic traditions; and to a broad range of cultural, social, and political aspects of the archaic and classical Greek world(s), including sex and sexuality, class, gender, and other forms of identity, and the relationship of the individual to the community. The mythological, dramatic, and formal poetic aspects of these poems will be explored as well as questions of meter and dialect. 

This is the second quarter of a two-part course that will cover the long life of ancient Greek poetry and prose, touching on many genres in their first forms: epic and hymns, history, oratory, and philosophical dialogues, poetry that is theogonic, iambic, elegiac, lyric, epinician, tragic, comedic, and dithyrambic. We will seek to discuss key moments, passages, and poems that give us entry to larger literary questions and themes. We will pay particular attention to details of genre, dialect, and meter, while also being attentive to the history of scholarship that attends on these traditions. We will continue to read a lot of Greek. 

This is the first quarter of a two-part course that will cover the long life of ancient Greek poetry and prose, touching on many genres in their first forms: epic and hymns, history, oratory, and philosophical dialogues, poetry that is theogonic, iambic, elegiac, lyric, epinician, tragic, comedic, and dithyrambic. We will seek to discuss key moments, passages, and poems that give us entry to larger literary questions and themes. We will pay particular attention to details of genre, dialect, and meter, while also being attentive to the history of scholarship that attends on these traditions. We will read a lot of Greek.