Course Description: In this course, we will read eighteen letters of Pliny containing character & biographical sketches of Pliny's illustrious friends and contemporaries: great statesmen, outstanding scholars, poets and philosophers, promising suitors, austere old men, and exemplary mothers, wives, and daughters. From these letters, we can make out what virtues and behaviors comprised—at least according to Pliny!— a model Roman at the end of the first-century C.E.
Letters Included: [1.10], [1.12], [1.14], [1.16], [1.22], [2.1], [2.3], [2.7], [3.1], [3.5], [3.16], [4.19], [5.16], [5.17], [7.19], [8.12], [9.9], [9.22]
DETAILS
Level: Students should be acquainted with Latin grammar and have experience reading continuous, unadapted texts. As always, prior experience with Pliny is helpful but not required.
Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.
Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.
When
Tuesdays, 8:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
Cost
$250
