Intermediate Latin: Rhetoric and Poetry

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Course Description This course’s primary focus will be to concentrate on Latin as it exists in the Classical, Vulgar and Medieval written metrical corpus of poetry, oratory and drama. It will review Latin grammar at the intermediate level, expand knowledge of Latin vocabulary and examine advanced Latin syntax, rhetoric and meter to achieve reading comprehension of texts written in original Latin. However, this course will not only use metrical written/verbal texts but also visual and non-verbal artefacts, and the practices and rituals embedded in the cultures of the Latin to obtain an understanding of the culture of the Latin.