Vergil

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This third-year course on the Aeneid, Vergil's literary masterpiece written in Rome in the last decades of the first century BC, aims to develop students' skills in: translating Latin poetry; reading aloud and analyzing Latin hexameters; analyzing Latin poetic style; interpreting classical epic poetry. Class will consist primarily of close study of assigned passages from the Latin text of the poem. Students will also read the entire poem in English translation and consider its cultural and historical context. The course prepares students for advanced study in Latin language and literature.