Latin IV (LAT223)
Course Description
Students will read selections from Virgil’s Aeneid VI and Tacitus’ Annales I. Further emphasis will be placed on learning the scansion of dactylic hexameter by the completion of weekly scansion assignments. Additionally, students will be required to submit weekly composition assignments. A final composition assignment will be required.
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: LAT213
Additional Details
DL Latin IV is a continuation of DL Latin III. The course is structured similarly to the previous class in its ability to utilize electronic resources better as it is not dependent on the Wheelock Workbook. If you are unable to access the internet, an accommodation can be made so that you can still enroll in the class.
The texts for the course are Vergil’s Aeneid, translated by Clyde Pharr, and Tacitus’s Annales I. Students will read a good portion of Aeneid Six, Aeneas’ famous descent into the underworld to visit his father Anchises, and a small portion of book one of Tacitus’ great historical opus, Annales. The course will also complete Bennett’s New Latin Composition. As in DL Latin III there will be ancillary grammatical and metrical exercises with each lesson.
DL Latin III or its equivalent is a prerequisite for the course. Please email ssmcroberts@phc.edu if you have any questions.
