LATIN 306 A: Cicero and Ovid

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.