Latin 330 - ADV READINGS: ROMAN SATIRE
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Nancy Shumate
TTh 01:00-02:20
Smith College
30135-S18
HATFLD 201
nshumate@smith.edu
Topics course.
Authors vary from year to year, but they are generally chosen from a list that includes epic and lyric poets, historians, orators, comedians and novelists, depending on the interests and needs of the students. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: two courses at the 200-level or permission of the instructor.: A survey of the genre in English translation, with a close reading of four key poems of the imperial satirist Juvenal: 1 (on social decline); 3 (on city life); 10 (on human futility), and 15 (on the strangeness of Egyptians). Topics will include ancient vs. later satire; satire as social commentary and as ironic performance art.
Authors vary from year to year, but they are generally chosen from a list that includes epic and lyric poets, historians, orators, comedians and novelists, depending on the interests and needs of the students. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: two courses at the 200-level or permission of the instructor.: A survey of the genre in English translation, with a close reading of four key poems of the imperial satirist Juvenal: 1 (on social decline); 3 (on city life); 10 (on human futility), and 15 (on the strangeness of Egyptians). Topics will include ancient vs. later satire; satire as social commentary and as ironic performance art.