Virgil, Aeneid, Book III: Aeneas' Odyssey

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

Course Description: Let’s accompany Aeneas and his companions on their flight from the burning Troy and look for their new homeland! It will be an adventure, and we will be facing many dangers … but also some very surprising and beautiful incounters and powerful words! In this course, we will read selected passages from this quite rarely treated Aeneid book. We will exercise to read metrically and talk about metrical particularities, rephrase verses in prose, find synonyms and expand our vocabulary, solve grammar questions and recur, when suitable, to other books of the Aeneid. The course is supposed to have a chilled atmosphere and will be adapted to the needs of you participants.

The course language will be Latin, which doesn’t mean that it is forbidden to ask things or translate into other languages, whenever necessary.

DETAILS

Level: You should have some experience in reading original Latin and an intermediate/upper level in speaking. Or, if you are an advanced reader with good grammar skills, but without speaking experience, you can practice speaking through this course!

Textbook: I suggest the Oxford edition of R.A.B. Mynors with a critical commentary, but any other edition will do it (or just thelatinlibrary.com)

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

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

Cost
$250

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Virgil, Aeneid, Book III: Aeneas' Odyssey Spring 2025 ($250)

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Instructor

Marina Garanin

Salvete omnes, my name is Marina Garanin. Graduated from Heidelberg (Germany) and Oxford, I am currently working on my PhD on Latin translations from Greek at the University of Heidelberg. I have been teaching living Latin with Telepaideia and on different other occasions, such as, most recently, “Virgil and the Epic tradition” at “Living Latin in Rome” this year; 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). In my free time, besides of writing poetry and acting, I like drawing, singing and writing music; also, being a huge dog lover (not having one on my own though), I like studying dog behaviour and education. Also, I have a Latin YouTube channel (Musa Pedestris) where you can find poetry recitations, latin vlogs, livestreams, and other videos on Latin.