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Fall 2024  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Readings in Latin Poetry -- Aeneids: Vergil and His Reception (33720)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 118
Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The primary material for this course will be a selection of readings from three or more different Latin poets connected by genre (e.g. epic, dramatic, lyric), theme (e.g. heroism and the hero, the body, the good life), period (e.g. Augustan, late Antique), or the like. Primary readings and critical approach will vary from year to year, making the course repeatable. Some modern secondary reading will be assigned to provide a basis for discussion and a model for student written work. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Contact the Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures Department with any questions.
Class Notes:
Even in the ancient world, Vergil's Aeneid exerted a profound literary and intellectual influence on Latin writers. In this course, we read some selections of Vergil's epic to prepare for further Latin readings in late antiquity, the medieval period, and early modernity. In addition to reading across the Aeneid's literary heritage, this course will also explore its effects on philosophers, educators, and artists of later eras.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33720/1249

Spring 2024  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Readings in Latin Poetry -- Medieval Latin Poetry (67777)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 135
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The primary material for this course will be a selection of readings from three or more different Latin poets connected by genre (e.g. epic, dramatic, lyric), theme (e.g. heroism and the hero, the body, the good life), period (e.g. Augustan, late Antique), or the like. Primary readings and critical approach will vary from year to year, making the course repeatable. Some modern secondary reading will be assigned to provide a basis for discussion and a model for student written work. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Contact the Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures Department with any questions.
Class Notes:
A survey of sacred and secular Medieval Latin Lyric, from late antiquity to the 12th century. Authors range from mystical (Hildegard of Bingen) and classicizing (Alcuin) to vulgar and profane (Archpoet). We will also listen to surviving musical settings of some poems. NOTE Some class material may be considered obscene.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67777/1243

Fall 2023  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Readings in Latin Poetry -- Cosmos and Culture: Cosmology and Prehistory (33735)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 107
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The primary material for this course will be a selection of readings from three or more different Latin poets connected by genre (e.g. epic, dramatic, lyric), theme (e.g. heroism and the hero, the body, the good life), period (e.g. Augustan, late Antique), or the like. Primary readings and critical approach will vary from year to year, making the course repeatable. Some modern secondary reading will be assigned to provide a basis for discussion and a model for student written work. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Contact the Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures Department with any questions.
Class Notes:
This course explores ancient ideas about the origins and structure of the universe and early human society and culture. We will study ancient scientific texts and creation stories that are shaped by a diverse range of philosophical and religious concepts. We will examine ideas about the composition and operating principles of the natural world, the relationships between gods and humans, and the development of human culture and its inherent connections to the natural environment.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33735/1239

Fall 2021  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Roman Epic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid (34905)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34905/1219

Spring 2021  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Roman Letters (67462)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?LAT5100+Spring2021
Class Description:

This course will examine letters as a literary genre at Rome as well as a critical source for Roman political and social history. We will study letters of Cicero and the Younger Pliny that provide us eyewitness accounts of some of the most pivotal moments in Roman history. We will also read selections from the literary and philosophical epistles of Seneca and study their influence on later world literature. Finally, we will explore Petrarch's letter to Cicero and his engagement with classical culture. Together, these texts will give us a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Roman life. Among the topics we will explore are: Roman business, literary culture, country life, gender roles, slavery, the eruption of Vesuvius, the treatment of Christians, gladiatorial games, family and marriage, philosophy and society, religion and festivals.
Grading:
60% 3 exams
20% paper
20% participation
Exam Format:
Essay and passage analysis
Class Format:
Remote
Workload:
40-60 lines of Latin per class
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67462/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
16 November 2020

Fall 2020  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Cicero: Reading Roman Oratory (34086)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
18 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
By far the most acclaimed of all Roman orators, Cicero was truly a master of his craft. In this course we will read and discuss some of Cicero's speeches, paying particular attention to his style and manner of argumentation. Additional readings (in English) will be used to situate the author and his work in their literary and historical context.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34086/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 April 2020

Fall 2019  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Livy (34006)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
Apart from Cicero and Vergil, few Latin authors have enjoyed the fame and influence of the historian Titus Livius. In this course, we will read extensively from Book One of Livy's monumental Ab urbe condita. Additional readings and discussion will be used to situate the author and his text in their literary and historical context.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Anyone looking to expand their command of Latin.
Grading:
Class Participation 25%
Major Tests 30%
Paper 20%
Final Exam 25%
Workload:
3 Exams + 1 Final
1 Paper
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34006/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 April 2019

Spring 2019  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- City of Rome: Text and Topography (66543)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 364
Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66543/1193

Fall 2018  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Ovid (33887)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 135
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?LAT5100+Fall2018
Class Description:
This course is designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students It will cover the poetry of Ovid, espcially the Metamorphoses. After briefly looking at some of earliest mythological poetry, at least two of the Heorides, we will work through the entire Metamorphoses in Latin (focusing on Books 1, 7, ad 10) and the rest in English The Latin readings will include the origins of the world, the deeds of the witch/goddess Medea, and the story and songs of Orpheus. Some attention will be paid to matters important to modern scholarship: Ovid's politics, the recurrence of rape narratives within his poems, and the reception of Ovid in later periods of history.
Who Should Take This Class?:
This class will assume the equivalent of two years of college-level Latin.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
Readings will begin at roughly 50 lines of Latin per class and will periodically speed up.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33887/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 May 2018

Fall 2017  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Epistles (35363)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 119
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35363/1179

Spring 2017  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Catullus and Cicero (66934)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 201
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66934/1173

Fall 2016  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Livy (33649)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 09/22/2016
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 119
 
09/23/2016 - 12/14/2016
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Notes:
Livy
Class Description:
This course provides a basic introduction to the work of the great historian Livy. Our translation efforts will focus on the first book of his monumental history, which covers the period from foundation of Rome down to the expulsion of the kings, but will also consider and discuss the structure and content of all 142 books.
Grading:
Class Participation 25%
Major Tests 30%
Paper 20%
Final Exam 25%
Workload:
3 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33649/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 May 2016

Fall 2015  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- City of Rome (24066)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 119
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary. prereq: [3004 or equiv], at least two yrs of college level Latin. Must contact Classical/Near Eastern Studies department for permission to register.
Class Description:
This course will explore the relationship between Latin literature and an especially important context: the city of Rome. Our primary approach will be to consider how ancient Roman authors represent and respond to the material presence of the city. We will also study how Rome becomes a minefield of literary and historical associations. We will explore this vibrant hub of the ancient Mediterranean world from the perspective of the exile, the immigrant, the powerful, and the powerless. Drawing on contemporary theory, we will examine how texts and sites perpetuate collective memory and discuss the role of 'place' in the formation of cultural identity. Through our secondary reading, we will also consider how later authors and artists responded to the symbolic strata of ancient Rome.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24066/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 March 2015

Fall 2014  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Letters (26252)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 107
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary.
Class Description:
This course will examine letters as a literary genre at Rome as well as a critical source for Roman political and social history. We'll study letters of Cicero and the Younger Pliny that provide us eyewitness accounts of some of the most pivotal moments in Roman history. We'll also read selections from the literary and philosophical epistles of Horace and Seneca and study their influence on later world literature. Together, these texts will give us a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Roman life. Among the topics we'll explore are: Roman business, literary culture, country life, gender roles, slavery, the eruption of Vesuvius, the treatment of Christians, gladiatorial games, family and marriage, philosophy and society, religion and festivals.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26252/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 April 2014

Fall 2013  |  LAT 5100 Section 001: Advanced Reading -- Livy (34721)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 355
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Reading in Latin texts/authors. Texts/authors vary.
Class Description:
When the historian Livy (Titus Livius, 43 BCE-17 CE) was composing his great work "Ab urbe condita," he was concerned not so much to establish as accurate an account as possible of Rome's past as to set forth examples of what he considered Roman, and un-Roman, behavior, examples to emulated or avoided by his contemporaries. While this does not present a particular problem for what was then the second half of Rome's history, a period for which the city's official records were still available, the first half of that history is a different matter: when the Gauls sacked Rome around 390 BCE, those records had been destroyed, and later writers had to rely on the oral accounts of the great families to reconstruct the history of Rome's first four centuries. Livy's account of those years is thus a bit more troublesome as a source of "facts," and historians have been by and large more comfortable with his narration of post-390 events. This is not to say that his history of 754/3-390 is completely untrustworthy, but to suggest that for that period Livy is more interested in the stories as stories than in what we would consider history. In this course we will be looking at Livy's first five books, reading Book 1 in its entirety in Latin and Books 2-5 in English. In order to better understand his narrative technique, we will also be reading (in English) selections from Herodotus' history of the Persian Wars and the "Roman Antiquities" of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as well as representative samples of contemporary Livian scholarship.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34721/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 March 2013

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