LATIN 2201 - Latin Prose

(HB) (LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: LATIN 1205 or grade of A– or above in LATIN 1202, LATIN 1203, LATIN 1204 or placement by departmental exam.

C. Brittain.

“Reading of Cicero’s De Senectute – his examination of value of life (sex, friends, intellectual interests?) and the nature of death (extinction or survival?), written in 44 BCE, the year before his own violent death. We will read this dialogue with close attention to both its grammatical details and its thought-provoking content.”