Course Title
ROMAN LITERATURE: THE GOLDEN AGE
Course Description
Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123, or three terms of Latin. Pre-1700 Course. Reading in translation of major Roman authors, 60 BC-17 AD, breakdown of Republic/start of Empire, when social and political forces, shaped content and form of literature. Selected works of political forces shaped content and form of literature. Selected works of Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Livy, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid.
Units
4
