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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | LATNH102A001 |
Course Title | Intermediate Latin: Love, Magic, and Transformation |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin |
Instructor | Farmer,Matthew Cullen |
Times and Days | MWF 10:30am-11:30am
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Room Location | HLL107 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2434 How do you identify yourself—as a human, as a person from a specific time and place, as a person with particular needs and desires? As that identity evolves, do you remain the same person? How much control can you have over the way others identify you? Do your pets secretly talk when you're not around? Why can you love a person and loath them at the same time? In this course, we will meet a set of ancient Roman authors who were as consumed by questions of love and identity as we are in our lives today. First, we'll settle back into reading Latin with a selection of children's stories about talking animals. We'll then read excerpts from Apuleius' Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass; written by an African philosopher who was once put on trial for sorcery, this novel traces the adventures of a man cursed to become a donkey. Finally, we'll read the poems of the great Catullus, as famous for their beauty as for their explicit sexuality and biting attacks on Catullus' artistic and erotic rivals.; Prerequisite(s): LATN 002 or instructor consent for students with strong HS prep Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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