2005 Colorado College Latin Institute Course Offerings
Block A (June 6-24)
Beginning Latin - Patricia FitzGibbon (2 credits
- 2 blocks) (U)
Latin Prose Composition /Intermediate Latin Readings-
Richard Beaton (1 credit)
This course is designed to accommodate either intermediate students of Latin
or anyone whose Latin needs refreshing or reinforcing. Part of the class is
dedicated to Latin prose composition and part to reading a variety of different
authors with extra emphasis placed on reviewing more complex aspects of Latin
grammar and syntax. Specific authors will be determined by the instructor
but will vary from year to year so that this course may be taken more than
once under different call numbers. (U or G)
Block A Colloquium: Juvenal (June 13-17)
- Richard Beaton (.25 credits) This course will consist of reading selections
from the Satires of Juvenal after a general introduction to the original Roman
genre of Satire. Juvenal will be read and discussed in the context of the
historical period in which he lived. Special emphasis will be placed on developments
in the genre in terms of style and tone. (U or G)
Block B (June 27-July 15)
Beginning Latin (continued)- Patricia FitzGibbon
Empire and Power: Individual and Family in Ancient Rome - E.
Christian Kopff (1 credit)
The study of life in the Roman Empire from Augustus's Roman Revolution to
the rise of the Christian Empire includes the survival and evolution of Roman
Republican political ideals and social relations under the new regime, the
spread of individualism, urbanization and Hellenism, the role of philosophy
and religion in public and private life, the ideology of empire and its contemporary
relevance. Significant authors such as Augustus, Ovid, Seneca, Petronius,
Luke, Tacitus, Juvenal, Martial, Suetonius, Pliny, Apuleius, Lucian, Plutarch,
Aristides, Dio Chrysostom and Claudian will be read in translation. The evidence
of inscriptions, painting and sculpture will be considered. (U or G)
Block B Colloquium: Empire and Power: Individual
and Family in Ancient Rome - E. Christian Kopff (.50 credits)
Participants must be enrolled in the block course by the same name and readers
of Latin. Selected authors from the history course will be read in the original.
This course will meet 2-3 times per week throughout block B. ( U or G)
Block C (July 18-August 5)
De Rerum Natura: Roman Epicureanism in the Late Republic
- Patricia FitzGibbon (1 credit)
An in-depth examination of Epicurean philosophy from its foundation through
the Roman Republic and an investigation of its reception in the 1st C BC.
It includes a comparison of Lucretius to the epitomes of Epicurus (to be read
in translation) and commentary on Epicurean philosophy by Cicero. Latin texts:
Selections from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and from Cicero's De Finibus, Tusculanae
Disputationes, and Epistulae Ad Familiares. May be taken for graduate credit.
(U or G)
Block C Colloquium: Medieval Latin (July 18-22)
- Carol Neel (.25 credits)
Women's Hearts. Readings in Latin from four late ancient and medieval women's
texts: the dream sequence of the third-century martyr Perpetua, the book of
guidance for her young son of the ninth-century noblewoman Dhuoda, the brothel/conversion
plays of the tenth-century canoness Hrotswitha and the love letters of Heloise.
The last of our authors is among the most famous lovers of the European literary
tradition, and the others perhaps should be. This colloquium will pose their
texts a simple question: how did each understand love? It will close with
a text-based critique of the Clive Donner film about Abelard and Heloise,
*Stealing Heaven*." (U or G)
All block courses are intensive and meet 5 days per week approximately 3 hours per day throughout the block. Class is normally held in the mornings (9-noon) but the length and number of meetings are determined by the professor.
Colloquia may be taken in addition to block courses and normally are held every day of the specified week in the afternoons for approximately 2 hours.
U = undergraduate credit
G = graduate credit