College in High School Course Syllabus
Latin 0220
Intermediate Verse
(3 Credits)
Arma virumque cano ... This course is an introduction to Latin poetry. Students will read selections from Books I, II, and IV of Vergil's epic, the Aeneid, a poem that tells the amazing story of a band of Trojan refugees and their leader, Aeneas, who are searching for a new homeland. In our reading we will pay close attention to diction, style, meter, narrative technique, and the conventions of the ancient epic. Students also will read the whole poem in English for in-class discussion.
Two years of high school Latin are a prerequisite for this course.
The grade is determined by the student's performance on three one-hour exams, a final exam, quizzes, and class recitation. Each exam is based on the material covered in each unit.
The required texts for this course are:
- Vergil's Aeneid, edited by Clyde Pharr (Wauconda, 1998)
- Vergil's Aeneid, translated by David West (Penguin Books, 1991)
- Vergil's Home Page: This Web site offers online text and commentary, a bibliography, images from illustrated manuscripts of Vergil's poems, and links to other Vergilian sites.
Review of Sophisticated Latin Syntax:
- Subjunctive mood
- Hortatory
- Subjunctive
- Adverbial clause of purpose
- Indirect commands
- Clauses of fearing and sequence of tenses
- Indirect questions
- Result clauses
- Cum clauses
- Ablative absolute
- Subordinate clauses in indirect discourse
- Future passive participle
- Gerundive
- Passive periphrastic
- Gerund
- Supine
REVIEW EXAM
1.
Aeneid, Book I, pp. 1–169
Storm at sea and arrival on the coast of Africa
Aeneid, Books I–IV, in English
FIRST TRANSLATION EXAM
2.
Aeneid, Book II, pp. 1–188
The fall of Troy
Aeneid, Books V–VIII, in English
SECOND TRANSLATION EXAM
3.
Aeneid, Book II, pp. 189–335, 506–566, 707–740
The fall of Troy continued and Aeneas' escape
Aeneid, Books IX–XII, in English
THIRD TRANSLATION EXAM
4.
Aeneid, Book IV, pp. 1–128, 160–194, 265–396, 571–629, 659–671
Dido and Aeneas
FINAL EXAM