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Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GRST 341 - Topics in Latin Literature

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
Topic for 2018/19b: Latin Letters: This course examines a range of Latin texts that were, or present themselves, as letters.  These include the letters of Cicero, Seneca, Pliny, and Fronto, as well as “documentary” letters (letters preserved on wood or papyrus), epistolary prefaces, and various poetic epistles.  One set of questions and issues to be discussed revolve around formal characteristics and genre: what makes a text recognizable to its intended audience as a “letter,” and how does this recognition affect the text’s reception?  Moreover, letters are an invaluable source for the study of Roman history and culture. Many of the characteristics that define letters make them particularly valuable to the historian trying to recover not just factual details but the thoughts and opinions of the Romans who wrote and read them.  J. Bert Lott.

Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: GRST 246  or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.



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