Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students will:
- have developed their Latin reading skills
- have developed their understanding of Roman social and political history
- be able to produce well-argued written work that engages with the original Latin texts and with modern scholarship
Indicative Module Content:
Students will read selections from a range of texts, which will be supplied to them. The main textbook is Paul Whalen (ed.) Urbs Antiqua. Themes in Latin Literature. Cambridge, 1989, which is available to borrow from the School of Classics.