Timetable 2024-25: Term 1, October - December 2024
Latin texts covered:
Week 1: Introduction
Weeks 2-3: School Colloquia
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Gallus, Pueriles confabulatiunculae
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Schottenius, Confabulationes
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Castellion, Dialogi Sacri
Weeks 4-6: Epistolary writing
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Cicero’s letters (Sturm’s edition)
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Petrarca, introductory letter to his collection (Fam. I.1)
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Isotta Nogarola’s letter to Eusebio dal Borgo (Ábel XXXV)
Week 7: Narrative
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Petrarca’s Ascent of Mt. Ventoux (Fam. IV. 1)
Weeks 8-9: Christmas texts
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Comparison of Vulgate and Erasmus' Novum Testamentum omne (1516)
- Latin translations of the Quran
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Adeste fideles
Session 1, 14 October 2024
Outline:
Introductions and approach
Noun declensions
Vulgate Bible
Handouts:
Declensions 1 (courtesy of the Latin Library)
Morwood on cases (James Morwood, A Latin Grammar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 6-15)
Session 2, 21 October 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Adjectives, pronouns and direct questions
Gallus' Confabulatiunculae
Handouts:
Session 3, 28 October 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Verbs - overview
Schottenius' Confabulationes
Handouts:
Verbs (partially from the Latin Library)
Homework
Conjugation of verbs (Kennedy, pp. 62-79)
Session 4, 04 November 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Verbs - participles, gerunds, gerundives
Sturm's Cicero
Handouts:
Grammar - Verbs (partially from the Latin Library)
Homework: See Sturm handout
Session 6, 18 November 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Ablative absolute
Isotta Nogarola to Eusebio dal Borgo
Handouts:
Homework: See Nogarola handout
Session 7, 25 November 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Ut clauses
Petrarca, Ascent of Mont Ventoux
Handouts:
Ut clauses (Latin Library)
Homework: See Ventoux handout
Session 8, 02 December 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Cum clauses
Erasmus
Handouts:
Cum clauses (partially from the Latin Library)
Homework: See Erasmus handout
Session 9, 09 December 2024
Outline:
Homework check
Revision
Latin translations of the Quran
Handouts: