Ovid: Love Elegies (Beginners)

*Please note that this course will run only if two or more students enroll.

Course Description: After Tibullus and Propertius, Ovid is the latest Roman elegiac poet, with whom elegy has reached its ultimate refinement: witty, elegant, playful, and just beautiful to read. He likes playing with the common elegiac topoi and sometimes parodies them (when, for example, he mourns the death of Corinna’s parrot).
In this course, we’ll be reading a little selection of Ovid’s earlier works (Amores and Heroides), talking about grammar, poetic language and metre (one session will be dedicated to the elegiac distich). In the beginner course, we will read very slowly, switching between English and Latin, like inserting little Latin speaking exercises, and, whenever necessary, translating to or explaining in English - everything depending on you students!

DETAILS

Level: This class is intended for those who know all the basic grammar and have some experience in reading easier prose or school book texts, but have not touched upon poetry yet.

Textbook: Any edition of the Amores and Heroides, or just using thelatinlibrary.com

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

When
Tuesdays, 12:00p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Ovid: Love Elegies (Beginners) Spring 2026 ($250)

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Instructor

Marina Garanin

Salvete omnes, my name is Marina Garanin, graduated from Heidelberg (Germany) and Oxford. I have been teaching living Latin with Telepaideia and at “Living Latin in Rome”; also, I taught Latin metre and Latin verse composition. I have been practising spoken Latin since the beginning of my studies, and I have been taking part in different Latin (and Greek) speaking events. As I love acting, I also participated at “Thalia” in 2022 (Vicenza, Italy) and this year (Vilnius, Lituania), a Latin theater competition organized by the Schola Humanistica with two original tragedies, “Medeae Daemones” and “Agave”, written by Stefano Vittori, in which I played the parts of Medea and Agave. I write metrical poetry in Latin myself (some of the poems are published in the periodical “Vox Latina” from 2019 on), and I am translating graphic novels into Latin for the editorial “NUBES”. Some of my recitations are available on the app “Legentibus” by Daniel Pettersson from Latinitium. In my free time, besides writing poetry and acting, I like drawing, singing, writing music, and dogs. Also, I have a Latin YouTube channel (Musa Pedestris) where you can find poetry recitations, latin vlogs, livestreams, and other videos in Latin.