Latin for Research-Post-Beginner's level-weekly classes

Cesare Maccari, Cicero denouncing Catiline's conspiracy (1880), Palazzo Madama, Rome

Course description

These weekly meetings will allow you to consolidate the knowledge of Latin acquired during the beginner’s course. By engaging directly with Latin texts, you will build on what you have learnt in the previous classes and expand your overall proficiency of the subject. Lessons will focus on the reading and translation of both classical and Renaissance authors (Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Suetonius, Caesar, Petrarch, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla). Each teaching session combines translation practice with a detailed grammatical analysis of the text. To reinforce your learning, you will be assigned some tasks to complete during your own time. By the end of the course, you will be able to navigate a Latin text, translating it with occasional reliance on a dictionary and identifying its key grammatical features.

Information and application

A repeat of October's course is scheduled for next year and will again run for 9 weeks, every Wednesday, starting on 20th May 2026. Classes will be taught virtually via Teams every Wednesday from 5 to 6:30 PM (UK time). For any questions or further information, please contact the course tutor (Marta Spina) at: marta.spina@warwick.ac.uk

Full syllabus HERE.

To express an interest in this course, please complete the short form HERE

Participants will pay £300 for the course. Those whose institution belongs to the Newberry Library Consortium may be eligible to receive CRS Consortium Grants to cover the cost of the course. (Contact your local consortium representative for details.)

Warwick PhD Students will not have to pay the course fees.

Participants accepted onto the course, should familiarise themselves with the applicable Terms & Conditions, here .

Recent student feedback:

"I’ve taken many Latin courses with a variety of teachers and the way you communicate and teach the core concepts is so effective. You are a wonderful instructor, and I am very thankful that I get to learn from you. The resources you have provided and the ways to tackle this language have fundamentally changed the way I do translation. "