This is an advanced intermediate Latin course where you will learn to handle complex grammatical structures in Latin prose and poetry with relative ease. You will also expand your knowledge of vocabulary, style, metrics and rhetorical technique. You will have the opportunity to explore the connections between Greek and Roman culture through readings from Cicero's De Re Publica and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sight reading practice and discussion of advanced grammar topics will give you a well-rounded training in handling both poetry and prose Latin texts with confidence.

Course Requirements:

Grading in the course is based upon short vocabulary quizzes, four review quizzes, four sight quizzes and a final project.

Intended Audience:

Fourth semester proficiency in Latin, placement students, graduate students. Graduate students can elect the course as LAT 505 after three semesters of college Latin or the equivalent.

Class Format:

Two meetings per week; recitation and discussion