LATN 395 - Topics in Advanced Latin Literature

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: LATN 301 or instructor consent. Selected subject areas in Latin literature. The topic selected varies from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2016, LATN 395A-01: Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics (3). In this course, we explore the poetry Virgil composed before writing his great national epic, The Aeneid. The Eclogues, a collection of 10 pastoral poems, catapulted the young Virgil into the national poetic spotlight. The Georgics, hailed by John Dryden as “the best poem by the best poet,” celebrates the Italian earth, and explores several philosophical, political, and literary themes. Through readings of Virgil’s poetry (in Latin and English) and secondary scholarship (in English), we explore the boundaries of genre and shifting historical contexts during the second Triumvirate and early-Augustan Rome (40s-20s BCE). Dance.