2012-2013 - Sweet Briar College

LATN
202
CR 3.0
Intermediate Latin II Prerequisite: LATN 201. Readings from Latin poetry. V.3
LATN
261
CR 3.0
Directed Study
Prerequisites: One LATN course and permission of the instructor. The
study of introductory level material by an individual student or by a
small group of students under the immediate supervision of a faculty
member.
LATN
312
CR 3.0
Roman Historians
Prerequisite: One 200-level course in Latin. Selections from Livy or
Tacitus. Offered alternate years. V.2, V.3
LATN
314
CR 3.0
Later Latin Literature
Prerequisite: LATN 202. Readings in works of Latin poetry or prose
written after the “classical” period of Latin literature. Author and genre
will vary; possible topics include Apuleius, St. Augustine, or Latin
writings of the Middle Ages or later. V.2, V.3
LATN
321
CR 3.0
Elegy and Epigram
Prerequisite: LATN 202. This course explores themes of love, wit,
invective, and urbanity that figure prominently in these versatile poetic
genres. Beginning with the world of Catullus, this course moves
through the Roman elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, and at the
occasional poems of Martial. V.2, V.3
LATN
334
CR 3.0
Literature of the Late
Republic
Prerequisite: LATN 202. In this course we will draw on a variety of
readings from the turbulent period in the first century B.C.E. that
marked the end of the Roman Republic. Genres will vary and possible
authors include Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Lucretius, and Catullus. V.2,
V.3