CLAS401-18W (C) Whole Year 2018

Prescribed Texts: Greek and Latin

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 September 2018

Description

A variety of Greek and Latin literary texts, for translation and critical analysis.

This course enables students who have two or three years’ experience of Latin and/or Greek to read texts at an advanced level. A number if issues are discussed which will enhance the students’ understanding of texts not only in their technical and grammatical aspects, but also their place in their literary and cultural tradition as well as their influence in the ancient and modern worlds. Texts read range from epic poetry (Homer, Hesiod, Vergil, Ovid, et al.), lyric poetry (Pindar, Horace) and drama (Sophocles, Euripides) to prose works (Thucydides, Plato, Cicero, Suetonius, et al.); sometimes, thematic approaches across a number of texts are explored: e.g. Helen of Troy from Homeric epic to Greek drama and rhetoric. Texts for translation and critical analysis are chosen in consultation with the instructor(s).

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

Patrick O'Sullivan

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,811.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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