UT Classics Department Announces Summer Program
The Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin
announces the following courses in Intensive Beginning Greek,
Advanced/Graduate Latin and Advanced/Graduate Greek for Summer, 2008.
For information on registration, tuition, housing or other logistical
matters, contact Lynn Gadd (ugclass@www.utexas.edu).
A. UT-Austin’s renowned program in Intensive Summer
Greek
will be offered again this summer (June 5-August 18). 
Using the
techniques devised by the late Gareth Morgan, Professors Lesley
Dean-Jones and Thomas Palaima will lead students through all the
fundamental elements of Greek morphology and syntax and extensive
readings in Homer, Euripides, Lysias and other authors. For
information on the content of this course, contact Lesley Dean-Jones
(ldjones@mail.utexas.edu), or see the detailed description in a PDF
file (Intensive
Greek, Summer '08) - requires the free Acrobat Reader.
B. Three-week Summer Advanced
Latin: Livy and the
Origins of Rome (LAT 365/385; Instructor: Tim Moore)
This course is designed specifically with teachers of Latin in the
secondary schools in mind but should be useful for any advanced
undergraduates or graduate students. The class will meet for
three weeks (June 9-27, 2008) for three hours each day. The
stories of Livy’s early books (Romulus and Remus, Lucretia,
Horatius at the bridge) are incomparable both for their inherent
excitement and for what they tell us about how the Romans viewed
themselves. We will read and discuss a number of these stories,
paying particular attention to the mixture of history and myth in
Livy’s account, Livy’s view of what it means to be Roman,
and how the stories can best be put to use in the classroom. Students
may receive three credits of either upper-division or graduate credit.
Prerequisite: 5 semesters of undergraduate Latin or equivalent.
For information on the content of this course, contact Tim Moore
(timmoore@mail.utexas.edu).
C. Advanced
Greek: Lyric Poetry
(GK 365/385; Instructor: Andrew Faulkner).
For the first time in recent history, the University of Texas at Austin
will offer a course in advanced Greek during the second summer session
(July 14-August 18). Students will examine in detail a representative
selection of archaic Greek lyric poetry, including works of Sappho,
Alcaeus, Archilochus, Pindar, and Bacchylides. Throughout the course,
students will become familiar with the language, metres, structures,
literary motifs and tropes, and performance context of the poems.
Attention will be given to defining the boundaries and qualities of the
genre(s) of archaic Greek lyric poetry and its influence on later
literature. Students may receive three credits of either
upper-division or graduate credit. Prerequisite: 5 semesters of
undergraduate Greek or equivalent. For information on the content
of this course, contact Andrew Faulkner (afaulkner@mail.utexas.edu).
Additional Courses to be offered this summer:
First Summer Session:
LAT 506: Beginning Latin I
LAT 311: Intermediate Latin I
CC 301: Introduction to Ancient Greece
Second Summer Session:
LAT 507: Beginning Latin II
LAT 312: Intermediate Latin II
CC 306M: Introduction to Medical and Scientific Terminology
Long Session:
CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome
CC 303: Introduction to Classical Myth
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