Introductory Intensive Latin

Introductory Intensive Latin

Course Description: A traditional intensive Latin course, surveying all of introductory Latin grammar in ten weeks. Those who complete this course satisfactorily should be prepared to take intermediate level courses in the language at the college level.

The course will use Latin Via Ovid (2nd edition) by Goldman and Nyenhuis for this purpose, working through all forty chapters of the book, focusing on the grammatical sections, with attention to the readings in order to see how the grammar functions in narrative examples. We will read the narrative sections in their entirety during the first half of the course; thereafter, as the readings become lengthier, we will concentrate on passages that demonstrate the grammar most recently learned. By the end of the course, we will be reading actual passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (and some from Virgil’s Aeneid) in their full complexity, thereby beginning the journey of appreciating the classical authors in their own words. 

DETAILS

Level: This course is intended for beginners.

Textbook: Latin via Ovid, by Goldman and Nyenhuis (2e, Wayne State University Press, 1982).

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7:00p.m.-8:20p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$1250

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Instructor

Robert Ziomkowski

Robert Ziomkowski has degrees in History from Siena College (B.A., 1991) and Cornell University (M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 2000), and a post-doctoral degree from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (L.M.S., 2002). His research focuses on medieval Platonism and cosmology. His publications include a translation and study of a text by the eleventh-century polemicist Manegold of Lautenbach, as well as a study guide for Western Civilization and articles in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas and PLOS ONE (“Mathematical Philology”). He attended Fr. Reginald Foster’s summer Latin course in 1994 while doing manuscript research at the Vatican Library, and his fascination with human languages has merged with an interest in computer languages (JavaScript, Python) for the creation of computerized Latin exercises. His other interests include animation and video editing; with his former students at Ithaca College, he produced a short film in Latin on Homer’s Odyssey entitled Ulixes.