Unit name | Latin Language Level B1 |
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Unit code | CLAS12307 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Priestley |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Classics & Ancient History |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The aim of this unit is to develop and reinforce students' skills in the independent critical reading of Latin literary texts. In the unit, you will read selections from Ovid's Heroides (covering 600 lines in Latin and the remainder in English translation). Grammatical and syntactical knowledge of Latin will be revised and reinforced. You will also develop a range of key skills for the reading and literary analysis of Latin texts, including the independent use of commentaries and dictionaries (in particular, the Oxford Latin Dictionary), and contemporary theoretical perspectives relevant to the interpretation of Ovid's poem.
Aims:
To develop students’ knowledge of the Latin language through the reading of classical Latin prose; to introduce students to techniques of independent reading of Latin, such as use of dictionaries and commentaries; to introduce students to issues of translation and interpretation of Latin literature.
Students will have developed and consolidated their knowledge of the Latin language and will have developed their skills of advanced independent reading of Latin texts. They will have acquired knowledge in the use of dictionaries and commentaries, and will be able to relate this knowledge to their understanding and interpretation of a Latin text. In addition, second year students will be expected to have developed more sophisticated analytical skills, as demonstrated in their formal assessments and in their participation in seminar discussions.
2 x class tests (25% each) and 1 x practical criticism (50%)
C.T. Lewis Elementary Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press
Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer, Longman
Peter E. Knox Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles, Cambridge University Press 1995
To be read in Latin:
Selections of Heroides (600 lines: exact selections to be confirmed at the start of the unit).
Student should also read all of the Heroides in English.