Latin 307 - The Slender Muse
The Slender Muse
Fall
2023
01
4.00
Bruce Arnold
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Mount Holyoke College
121641
barnold@mtholyoke.edu
A study of the highly romantic poetry that launched a revolution in Latin literature, including such works as Catullus's epyllion on Peleus and Thetis and Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, with attention to the new understanding of poetry shown in these poems and to their commentary on the social turmoil of the last phase of the Republic.
Prereq: Any Latin course above LATIN-201.