Timetable 2023-24: Term 2
Starting Monday 22nd January 2024,we will read short extracts from authors as follows:
Weeks 1-2 (22 & 29 Jan): Erasmus
Letter: visit to the court of Henry VIII
Colloquia familiaria:
Weeks 3-4 (5 & 12 Feb): views on classical Latinity
Abattis et eruditae (The Abbot and the Learned Woman)
Erasmus: Ciceronianus (Valla: Elegantiae)
Week 5-6 (19 and 26 Feb): engagement with classical models - history
Bruni, Memoirs: attack on Arezzo
Weeks 7 (4 March): engagement with classical models – philosophy
Bruni, introduction to Latin version of Aristotle’s Ethics
Weeks 8-9 (11 & 18 March): engagement with classical models – verse
Poliziano, Latin version of Iliad III 30-80
Maffeo Vegio, continuation of Aeneid XII
Session 1
22nd January
Erasmus: a visit to court
Session 2
29th January
A visit to court (cont.)
Session 3
5th February
Erasmus: Abbatis et eruditae
audio (to follow)
- questions: make up your own!
- nouns: change number (as in previous weeks)
- verbs: change number; change tense; make subjunctive etc.
Session 4
Lesson notes (grammar, verb system)
Session 8
Text: Iliad 3 (Poliziano, Latin)
Session 9
(don't forget next month's intensive intermediate Latin week: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/languages/latin4research/intense-intermediate)