LAT20170 Introduction to Latin Texts

Academic Year 2022/2023

In this module students will read a range of texts in the original Latin, including the "Res Gestae", the political testament of the emperor Augustus, and selections from the Augustan love elegists Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid, using Catullus as a starting point. As well as developing their reading and translation skills, students will be expected to assess the literary and rhetorical qualities of all texts studied and evaluate where appropriate their importance as historical sources. The level of Latin is moderately advanced.

Students are expected to acquire:

Joan Booth, Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin love elegy. A literary commentary with Latin text, translations by G. Lee and J. Booth (Bloomsbury Classical Press, 1999)

Res Gestae Divi Augusti, The Achievements of the Divine Augustus, edited by P. A. Brunt and J. M. Moore (Oxford University Press, 1967).