Intermediate Latin Prose
LATN 201-010/080: Intermediate Latin Prose (Credits: 3)
Marcaline Boyd
This course offers an introduction to the funerary inscription and first-person record of the life and accomplishments of Rome’s first emperor Augustus. We will read Augustus’ official autobiography Res Gestae Divi Augustus (“the achievements of the Divine Augustus”) and corresponding passages from other ancient sources. We will devote attention to the historical, cultural, and monumental contexts in which the text was composed and displayed, as well as to the review of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary covered in LATN 101 and 102.