Latin 330ve - Topics: Advanced Readings in Latin Literature-Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics
T-Vergil, Eclogues & Georgics
Fall
2024
01
4.00
Colin MacCormack
M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM; W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
LAT-330ve-01-202501
Dewey 104
cmaccormack@smith.edu
Before he produced ancient Rome’s greatest work of literature, the Aeneid, the young poet Vergil began his career with two very different works: the Eclogues, a collection of ten short pastoral poems, and the Georgics, a learned instructional poem ostensibly about agriculture. Through close readings of the Latin, translations and modern scholarship, the course explores major stylistic and thematic elements of each work, such as: how they depict the natural world, how they interact with Greek and Latin poetic models, and how they speak to the shifting cultural and political landscape of Rome as it transitions into the Augustan Age. Prerequisites: One intermediate Latin course.