Mount Holyoke
Classics Department
Latin (221) By and About Women, from Classical to Modern
Times
Classroom: Ciruti 202 (moved from Skinner 212)
Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00-10:50
Resources on Web
- Tools on Perseus
Allen and Greenough's New Latin
Grammar
Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
Overview of Latin
Syntax, by Anne Mahoney
- Latin Recitals
(Harvard) (to listen to elegiac couplets
go to Ovid's Amores 1.13)
- Nuntii Latini:
Read the weeks' news
in Latin (from the Finnish Broadcasting Company)
Listen to the
news in Latin
- Links to other useful tools for Latin
- Medieval Women Writers
Goals of the Course are to
- review Latin forms and syntax
- develop your reading strategies and skills
- introduce you to a variety of Latin prose and poetry
from several periods (Classical, Medieval, Modern)
- introduce Latin meter and rhetoric
Texts:
- A decent Latin dictionary (preferably with both Latin-to-English
and English-to-Latin). For those who do not own a dictionary, we will place
a class order. In the meantime, there are dictionaries you may use in the
department and in the library.
- Handouts ($10.00 copy fee, which you can charge to your
MHC account). Over the course of the semester you will meet a broad range
of authors, including (but not limited to) Horace, Ovid, Suetonius, Sulpicia,
and Hrotsvitha. In addition, you will receive several Mystery Texts,
which I will ask you to try to identify-and translate, of course. Handouts
will also include exercises to help you review your favorite (and not so
favorite) grammatical constructions.
Requirements:
20% quizzes (announced)
20% mid-term exam
20% mid-term exam
20% final exam
20% homework and performance in class**
**You must pass each of the above five components to pass
the class. More than two unexcused absences will affect your performance
grade.