The Neo-Latin Novel

The Neo-Latin Novel

Course Description: During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, substantial contributions were made to long-form fiction in Latin in genres ranging from speculative fiction and romance to the picaresque novel and political diatribe. This course will read sections from three of the most important contributions made during this period: Ludvig Holberg's Iter Subterraneum (1741), often hailed as the first full-length science-fiction novel; John Barclay's Argenis (1621), a work that blends adventure tale, mystery story, and political commentary; and Giovanni Vittorio Rossi's Eudemiae (1645), a spirited and pacy work reflective of the Rome of the Barberini papacy in which Rossi worked.

DETAILS

Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Intermediate-Advanced Latin

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials

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

When
Thursdays, 6:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Instructor

John Weretka

John Weretka holds undergraduate and graduate qualifications in medieval history, musicology, art history, theology, and Latin, and he recently completed a Master’s degree in Viking Studies with a thesis examining the ethnology of the ‘North’ from Tacitus to the Vínland sagas. He is completing a second Master's degree in Germanic Philology. He has taught extensively for Telepaideia, including courses on Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Donizo’s Life of Matilda of Tuscany, the works of Athanasius Kircher, texts on Hell, heresy, and apocalypse in the Middle Ages, and the Itinerarium Mentis of St Bonaventure. Perennially interested in languages, current fascinations include Old English, Classical Syriac, Old Norse, and Coptic.