Intensive Latin Summer School 2024

Program Overview

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The Intensive Latin Summer School 2024 is a comprehensive program designed for individuals with no prior Latin experience. It provides a solid foundation in Latin grammar and reading, preparing participants for advanced studies or research in Classics, Ancient History, or Literature. The program features daily classes, individual tutorials, and in-class assessments, and is taught by experienced instructors.

Program Outline

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Degree Overview:

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Objectives:

• This intensive program provides training for individuals lacking prior Latin experience, bringing them to a level of understanding simple Latin texts.
• It functions as a preparatory program for individuals pursuing Master's or Doctoral degrees requiring Latin as an essential research skill.
• It welcomes high school students, teachers, undergraduates, mature learners, and anyone fascinated by the Roman and Hellenic civilizations.
• three in-class tests
• Lectures cover a wide range of topics: Latin grammar, reading in Greek and Latin, epigraphy, guided museum tours, and behind-the-scenes insights at cultural institutions like the British Museum.

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Outline:

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Session 1: Beginner's Latin (July 1 - July 19)

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Week 1:

• grammar:
• Introduces
• reading in Latin
by analyzing excerpts from
• Plautus' Aulularia
.

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Week 2:

• Expands grammatical understanding by covering future & perfect tense, numerals, advanced declensions & conjugations.
• Continued practice in
• reading Plautus
through excerpts from his
• Bacchides
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Week 3:

• Further delves into grammar with comparative & superlative adjectives/adverbs, advanced conjugations, complex cases.
• Plautus' Amphitruo

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Session 2: Intermediate Latin (July 22 - August 9)

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Week 1:

• grammar concepts
• decline of the Roman Republic:
• Extracts from Cicero's *In Verrem II*: explores provincial corruption.

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Week 2:

• Continues grammatical study: result/purpose clauses, introduction to Latin poetry, subjunctives, indirect questions, specific verb types.
• conspiracy of Catiline
• Extracts from Sallust's *Bellum Catilinae*
• Extracts from Cicero's *In Catilinam IV*

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Week 3:

• Delves into scanning and meter analysis.
• Roman politics:
• Extracts from Catullus' poetry, Cicero's letters, Caesar's *de Bello Civili*, excerpts from Virgil's
• Aeneid
&
• Horace's Odes
, Ovid's *Amores*.

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Assessment:

• in-class tests

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Teaching:

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Learning Approach:

• Focuses on intensive daily engagement with the *JACT Reading Latin* course.
• Emphasizes individual practice through private study and homework completion.

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Staff:

• Taught by Fiona Haarer, Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.
However, acquiring Latin proficiency opens up research possibilities for those pursuing higher degrees related to Classics, Ancient History, Literature.