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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).
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
Patrick O'Sullivan
Domestic fee $1,847.00
International Postgraduate fees
* 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 .