LATIN 306 A: Cicero and Ovid

Winter 2023
Meeting:
MTWF 11:30am - 12:20pm / LOW 220
SLN:
16491
Section Type:
Lecture
Instructor:
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Latin 306 A Wi 23: Cicero and Ovid

Instructor: Joseph Bringman

This course continues UW’s second-year Latin sequence from Latin 305.  But also, if you completed the first year of college Latin strongly, this course will probably be a good fit even without Latin 305, and so too if you are looking for a first university course in Latin after a full program of high school Latin. The first five or six weeks of the quarter will be devoted to the prose writings of one of the leading Roman public figures and intellectuals, Cicero, and the rest of the quarter to the mythological epic narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.  From Cicero we will read samples of his political oratory, philosophical writing, and even his personal correspondence, providing us a range of genres in prose to explore before crossing over to the Ovidian dactylic hexameter. The emphasis will be upon line-by-line translation, detailed interpretation, and broader literary and cultural contexts.

Required texts

A Cicero Reader. Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches, with Five Letters. James M. May

Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. William S. Anderson, Mary Purnell Frederick

Catalog Description:
Readings from the orations of Cicero and the poetry of Ovid; elementary exercises in Latin prose composition. Intended as second in a sequence of three. Recommended: one year of college-level Latin or equivalent. Offered: W.
GE Requirements Met:
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
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October 16, 2024 - 12:57 am