Ovid for Beginning and Intermediate Readers

Course Description: Meeting two nights a week (an hour per session), the class will read selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, using the book by Peter Jones entitled Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which provides abundant guidance and helpful notes. Additional resources will be furnished or recommended as needed. The course will be paced for a thorough understanding of the grammar and will advance the acquisition of effective reading strategies while studying one of the most important and entertaining of Latin texts.!

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Level: Intended for students with an introductory or intermediate knowledge of Latin grammar who wish to improve their proficiency, in order to prepare for advanced reading or conversational courses. The ideal student may have just completed a course in introductory Latin grammar without yet having taken a course reading the great authors, or may have already taken a reading course but does not yet feel completely confident and would like more practice before moving on to advanced reading programs.

Textbook: Peter Jones, Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

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

When
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8:30p.m.-9:30p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$650

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Ovid for Beginning and Intermediate Readers Spring 2026 ($650)

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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.