| Fall Term 2020 TOP: LATIN LOVE ELEGY - 5044 - CLAS 401 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: One 300-level course in Latin or four years of high school Latin Catalog Description : Close reading and study of texts selected from the corpus of Latin literature. Meets concurrently with CLAS 301. Students taking this course at the 400-level will be held to a higher standard of reading, translation, and performance in class and on exams, and will be assigned an additional research paper. Not open to students who have received credit for the current topic under CLAS 301 or who need to receive credit for CLAS 301. May be repeated when the topic is different. Topic for Fall 2020: Latin Love Elegy Close reading and translation of selected poems by the Latin love elegists Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid, plus excerpts from Catullus and Sulpicia, the only female Roman poet whose work has survived at any length from antiquity. We will consider such issues as literary self-representation, Roman concepts of love and sexuality, and erotic elegy as a form of social and political commentary in the Augustan period. Attributes: Non-English Language Instructn, GER Humanities Div, 400-599 Advanced Course
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