Topics for study may include: epic, historiography, satire, oratory, personal poetry, art, architecture, Roman philosophy and religion, early imperial society, Medieval Latin; authors may include Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Martial, Cicero, Caesar, Livy, and Pliny the Younger. In studying the chosen text (or collection of texts) and its political, social, and literary context, students continue their study of the Latin language.

Students will select an appropriate text in consultation with the convener.

• by the end of semester students will have increased their ability to read Latin with pleasure and understanding: some texts at sight, any texts with the aid of dictionaries, grammars, translations, and textual notes.
  
• students will have become acquainted with a particular author or set of authors, the world they lived in, and the literary genre in question.
  
• students will have reviewed and extended their understanding of the grammatical constructions of Latin; and they will have extended their Latin vocabulary.

Major 3,500 words essay (50%) and three-hour final examination (50%).

One one-hour meeting and nine hours of associated study time per week.

LATN2101 Intermediate Latin, or HSC level Latin, or permission of Convener.