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Advanced Latin

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
  • Convenor: to be confirmed
  • Prerequisites: Intermediate Latin or equivalent (e.g. A-level)
  • Assessment: an unseen written examination (70%) and a 3000-word essay (30%)

Module description

In this module you will learn to read most prose and verse texts with confidence, gain a high level of grammatical comprehension and appreciate stylistic differences between texts.

Besides grammar work to consolidate your prior knowledge, the module will include:

  • unseen translation
  • prose composition
  • elementary study of metre
  • the study of extracts from a range of authors (e.g. Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, Apuleius, Horace).

You are expected to do regular preparation of set texts, prose translations and other translation exercises.