Latin

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

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Prerequisites: LATN UN1101-UN1102, or LATN UN1121, or the equivalent. Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101-UN1102, or LATN UN1121, or the equivalent. Selections from Catullus and from Cicero or Caesar.

This course condenses the second semester of Intermediate Latin (2102) into a sixweek summer session. Its goal is to further develop reading and interpretation skills in Classical Latin through engagement with Roman authors while continuing to review the essentials of Latin grammar. In the first half of the course, we cover selections from Ovid’s epic poem, the Metamorphoses; in the second, we take up the prose writings of Seneca the Younger including selections from his Epistulae Morales and the philosophical dialogue De vita beata.

Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Selections from Vergil and Horace. Combines literary analysis with work in grammar and metrics.

This seminar aims to provide students in the post-baccalaureate certificate program with opportunities 1) to (re-)familiarize themselves with a selection of major texts from classical antiquity, which will be read in English, 2) to become acquainted with scholarship on these texts and with scholarly writing in general, 3) to write analytically about these texts and the interpretations posed about them in contemporary scholarship, and 4) to read in the original language selected passages of one of the texts in small tutorial groups, which will meet every week for an additional hour with members of the faculty.

Prerequisites: junior standing. Required for all majors in Classics and Classical Studies. The topic changes from year to year but is always broad enough to accommodate students in the languages as well as those in the interdisciplinary major. Past topics include: love, dining, slavery, space, power.

Prerequisites: LATN V3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from the beginning to early Augustan times.

Neo-Latin is in many ways a loose category of description that is problematic because the term scarcely captures anything like the full diversity of the modes, styles, and functions of the writings that it encompasses: it broadly denotes original works written in the Latin language from the dawn of the Renaissance down to approximately 1900. Specialists in Neo-Latin have of course long shed important light on many texts that have received renewed scrutiny, and even been ‘rediscovered,’ through this important area of research. In recent times classicists, too, have increasingly focused on the transformations of Greco-Roman literary, philosophical, and socio-political culture in many later historical epochs, literatures, and cultural settings across the globe; prominent among these areas of Reception Study is that devoted to Neo-Latin. Columbia University has long had a committed scholarly interest in Neo-Latin, especially of the Renaissance period, in which scholars such as Paul Oskar Kristeller and Eugene Rice commanded great international renown. The Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance that was founded in 1945 by Paul Oskar Kristeller and John Herman Randall remains a thriving institution to this day.