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Harvard - Advanced Latin Prose Composition

Exercise in the prose style of different authors and periods, working within various subject-areas and genres. As a guide to composition, we will read and analyze illustrative passages from major authors, including Cato, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, and Tacitus, as well as some distinctive styles in lesser-known authors.
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Harvard - Archaic Latin

Essentials of Latin comparative and historical grammar, with readings of early Latin inscriptions, legal texts, and selections from Livius Andronicus, Plautus, Ennius, and Cato.
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Harvard - Beginning Latin

For students with very little or no previous instruction in Latin. Introduction to Latin grammar and reading of sentences and short passages.
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Harvard - Beginning Latin

Continuation of Latin Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages.
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Harvard - Beginning Latin (Intensive)

For students with little or no previous instruction in Latin who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Latin Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Latin Ba, Bb, Bam, or Bbm.
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Harvard - Catullus and Horace

Literary and historical interpretation of poetry by Catullus and Horace.
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Harvard - Cicero Orations and Rhetorica

Introduction to the theory and practice of oratory in late republican Rome. The course examines the formation of the actual and the ideal orator, as evidenced by the early speeches and in the theoretical works. Readings in Latin from selected court speeches, the -De oratore- and -Brutus-.
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Harvard - Cicero, De Officiis

For centuries after his death, Cicero was mainly known as a philosopher rather than as a statesman and orator. The most influential of his philosophical treatises was the De Officiis, a standard text on the curriculum until the end of the 18th century. In this course we will read and discuss selected passages from all three books, with an emphasis Cicero's account of Stoic ethics.
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Harvard - History of Latin Literature I

The literature of the Republic and early Augustan period. Reading of extensive selections from the major authors, with lectures and discussion on the evolution and development of Latin prose and poetry. The course focuses on a variety of issues: Latin individuality through manipulation of inherited Greek forms, metrical and stylistic developments, evolving poetics, intertextuality and genre renewal, dynamic effects of social and political contexts.
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Harvard - History of Latin Literature II

Readings from the literature of the late republic/early empire, with a focus on developments in genre and on historical context.
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Harvard - Introduction to Latin Poetry (Classical)

Reading of selections of Latin poetry and introduction to meter.
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Harvard - Introduction to Latin Poetry (Late Antique and Medieval)

Selections from epic and lyric.
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Harvard - Introductory Latin Prose Composition

Systematic review of Latin syntax and translation of sentences and connected prose passages from English into Latin.
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Harvard - Latin Prose Selections (Classical)

A bridge between the study of Latin grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles. The readings are short selections from a variety of genres by authors such as Cicero, Pliny, Nepos, Sallust, and Petronius.
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Harvard - Latin Prose Selections (Late Antique and Medieval)

Begins with a review of fundamentals. Aims at increased facility in reading Latin, through a study of selected post-classical prose texts and authors such as the Vulgate Bible, Augustine, and Abelard.
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Harvard - Lucan's De Bello Civili

Reading of Lucan's De bello civili, with a focus on its central figures, Caesar, Pompey, and Cato, and on the relationship between its poetics and its politics.
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Harvard - Reading Latin

Readings of Latin prose and poetry ranging from archaic to imperial, with emphasis on variety, quantity, and quick comprehension of syntactic, stylistic, and generic features.
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Harvard - Review and Reading

For students with more than one year of formal training in Latin who do not place into Latin Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Latin Ba or Bb.
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Harvard - Roman Satire

Readings from the satires of Horace, Persius and Juvenal with attention to its status as genre, the development of this genre, and with consideration of each author in his literary, social, and cultural context.
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Harvard - Virgil: Aeneid

Reading and discussion of Virgil's Aeneid, with attention to its place in the epic tradition and its status as a work of Augustan literature.
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