Latin 306 (5 credits)     Ovid, Metamorphoses and Cicero, selections     Win '24

MTWF 11:30-12:20, Denny 213

Taught in person

SLN 16248   A&H

Prof. Stephen Hinds, Department of Classics    shinds@uw.edu

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.  Ask me ahead of the start of term if in doubt about the best Latin course for your level.  The first five or six weeks of the quarter will be devoted to the mythological epic narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the rest of the quarter to the prose writings of the leading Roman public figure and intellectual Cicero.  User-friendly textbooks offering detailed commentary and context on the readings will be assigned, to be available through the University Bookstore.  The emphasis will be upon line by line translation, detailed interpretation, and broader literary and cultural contexts.  Like our other second-year Latin courses, Latin 306 incorporates continuing review of Latin grammar and syntax, fuelled by reference to grammar books.

Required textbooks, available in U Bookstore*

William S. Anderson and Mary Purnell Frederick, Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Longman Latin Readers (Savvas Learning Company) 1988 

James M. May, A Cicero Reader: Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches, with Five Letters, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 2012

*December 19 update:  the Ovid textbook has become hard to get, and the U Bookstore has been unable to place a group order, despite its being listed on a search of 'Longman Latin Readers' on the Savvas website as an 'earlier edition' for $39.50.  Other online retailers may offer secondhand copies.  In any case, pdfs of our assignments from this textbook will be made available to members of the class as needed.  

The Cicero textbook will definitely be available at the U Bookstore in the regular way. 

Assessment

Best two of three quizzes:  50%

Final exam (covers prescribed reading after quiz 2):  40%

Homework and participation in class assignments:  10%

Quizzes and final exam will test the following:

assigned reading; meter, grammar and composition; ‘sight’ translation; some issues of literary and cultural context.