University of Minnesota

Latin 3100: Reading Latin Prose. Provides a transition for students who have had one year of the language but want more practice reading before moving on to intermediate Latin, or for students who have had studied Latin in the past and wish to begin studying it again. The emphasis will be on reading passages of unadapted Latin prose, both prepared and at sight, as well as review of basic grammar and vocabulary from the second half of Wheelock's Latin.
[5/24-6/11, M-F, 11:15-2:15, 3 credits]

Classics 1042: Greek and Roman Mythology. Intensive myth boot camp, with films and field trips as well as slides,great reading, and small group work to introduce students to the highlights of Greek and Roman mythology.
[5/24-6/11, M-F, 9:05-1:10, 4 credits]

Classics 1005: Ancient Rome: The Roman Revolution This course will survey the Roman world in the period from the death of Julius Caesar to just after the death of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, over half a century later. Few epochs have seen so interesting a cast of characters: the stalwart and tragic Cicero; the calculating and assured Octavian; Cleopatra, the exotic and brilliant queen who "enslaved the two greatest Romans of her time"; Marc Antony, who, according to Shakespeare, had "superfluous kings as his messengers"; Maecenas, who supervised one of Europe's greatest flowerings of literature. And then there are the poets: the shy Vergil, whose work became the schoolbook of Europe as soon as it was published; Horace, who had once fought on the other side; Propertius, who glorified slavery to love; and Ovid, Rome's best example of urban sophistication, who was exiled to an obscure backwater, never to return. We'll trace the bloody struggle for power between the young Octavian and the aging Marc Antony. We'll consider the crises in politics and society which Octavian/Augustus sought to get under control. We'll read the works of several of Rome's greatest writers, and look at the most important monuments the period produced. Finally, we'll see what answers we can find to the big questions the period raises about the ethics of power and the worth, as well as the price, of peace.
[6/14-7/23, MWF, 12:20-3:20, 3 credits]

CONTACT INFORMATION

Stephen Smith (Latin 3100)
smith504@umn.edu
612-625-0751

Nita Krevans (Classics 1042)
nkrevans@umn.edu
612-625-3422

Christopher Nappa (Classics 1005)
cnappa@umn.edu
612-624-6339

Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
305 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
http://cnes.cla.umn.edu

College of Continuing Education (registration information)
http://www.cce.umn.edu/summer
summer@cce.umn.edu
800-234-6564