Virgil

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This advanced Latin course on the Aeneid, Vergil's literary masterpiece written in Rome in the last decades of the first century BC, will focus on both the poem’s literary background and its legacy in later epic poetry. Special focus will be given to Book 4 of the poem, the tragic story of Dido and Aeneas. Students will both translate and analyze the Latin text and read secondary literature on the poem.