CLA 525 - THE LATIN LITERATURE OF THE EMPIRE (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)

College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

A study of one or more works selected from approximately 31 B.C. to the end of the Western Empire, the period of such writers as Livy, Tacitus, Pliny, Seneca, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal. Texts may include prose, including history, philosophy, rhetoric and oratory, and letters, and/or poetry, including epic, lyric, elegiac, pastoral, and satire. A particular author, work, genre, or theme is selected each time the course is offered. Textual analysis is emphasized, with lectures and class discussion on the literary milieu. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under a different subtitle.

Prereq: CLA 301 or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.