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### Spring, 2027

  [### Latin 131: Ovid, Heroides

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2027 

 

 The Heroides is an extraordinary collection of twenty-one letters in elegiac couplets by the poet Ovid. They represent a unique experiment with the female voice in Latin elegy, staging various heroines mostly of myth (e.g., Penelope, Medea, Ariadne) writing to their absent... 

 

  



### Fall, 2026

  [### ClasPhil 2009: Epic Forms

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2026 

 

 This seminar will focus on the formal structures of the epic genre. Through a comparative approach, we will study the narrative, stylistic and linguistic components of the epic genre across the Greco-Roman epic tradition. Formulae, sacrifices, arming scenes, combat and death... 

 

  



### Spring, 2025

  [### ClasPhil 299: Writers, Readers, Canons: Studies in Premodern Authorship

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2025 

 

 This course examines literary canons, their formation over time, and the politics of canonicity, with case studies from classical antiquity, the middle ages, and the early modern period. How do models of authorship from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries differ from... 

 

  



### Spring, 2024

  [### Cls-Stdy 184: Classical Antiquity and the Legacy of Slavery at Harvard

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 This course investigates the historical ties between the study of Classical antiquity at Harvard and slavery, and those ties' complex and enduring legacies. Areas of examination include the relationship between the ideologies of slavery in the ancient and modern worlds, the... 

 

  



### Fall, 2024

  [### Latin 146: Ciceronian Invective

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2024 

 

 The aim of the class is to gain an understanding of political invective through select studies of some of the representatives of the genre primarily in Cicero. The emphasis throughout will be on Cicero's rhetorical technique and self-fashioning, his use of topoi of abuse... 

 

  



### Fall, 2023

  [### Latin 112a: Latin Literature: Texts and Contexts

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2023 

 

 This year-long course (with Latin 112b) is designed to help students develop a map of Latin literary culture. Students are allowed to take either or both halves of the course. The class prepares students to discuss Latin literature in its historical and cultural context with... 

 

  



### Spring, 2022

  [### Latin 112b: Latin Literature: Texts and Contexts

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2022 

 

 This year-long course (with Latin 112a) is designed to help students develop a map of Latin literary culture. Students are allowed to take either or both halves of the course. The class prepares students to discuss Latin literature in its historical and cultural context with... 

 

  



### Spring, 2021

  [### Latin 125: Style and the Orator 

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

 

 Through close reading and discussion of key texts in the history of Roman rhetorical theory, this course will investigate the role of rhetoric in Roman society, politics, and literary culture. Selections from Cicero, De Oratore Book 3; the letters of Seneca the Younger and... 

 

  



### Fall, 2021

  [### Latin 175: Doing things with Latin: Syntax and Stylistics

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2021 

 

 This is a rigorous introduction to Latin syntax, to the styles of Latin prose, and to the practice, history, and ideology of stylistic analysis and Latin composition. Students will contribute to a creative history of written Latin at Harvard, engaging in translation...