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Selected

Readings

Aeneid 2.250-297; 469-525

Aeneid 2.735-804

Aeneid 4.1-128

Aeneid 4.129-197

Aeneid 4.198-278

Aeneid 4.279-361

Aeneid 4.362-449; 642-705

Aeneid 6.1-211

Aeneid 6.450-476; 847-901

Aeneid 12.887-952

Skills

Scan epic hexameter; Parse vocabulary; Interpret literature

Analyze figurative language; Read aloud familiar and unfamiliar text with fluency and competent delivery; Write a well organized composition

Infer a writer’s assumptions, purpose, or point of view

Predict outcomes; Relate Latin epic to personal experience

Evaluate the use of figurative language; Judge fairness

Draw conclusions; Explain motive; Assess the qualities of a character

Debate both sides of an issue; Write a well-organized composition; Identify and discuss the values, beliefs, political institutions and historical background of the target culture

Read a story and represent the sequence of events through pictures, music, or drama

Use a map to retrace the journey of a famous literary figure; Reinforce and further knowledge of other disciplines through Latin

Interpret art; Give a formal, well-organized, and sustained oral presentation

Themes

Fate, Jealousy, the Will of the Gods

Loss, Destruction, Injustice

New Beginnings

Passion, Love

Responsibility, Fate

Marriage, Broken Promises

Anger, Despair

The Proof of Character

Death, The Afterlife

Heroicism, Vengeance

Topics

Deponent verbs; Ablative absolute; Relative pronouns; Figures of speech and syntax

Participles; Passive periphrastic; Apposition

Gerunds and Gerundives; Syncopated verbs; Uses of the subjunctive

Demonstrative pronoun hic; Infinitives; Supine; Ablative of comparison

Indirect statement introduced by passive verb dicitur; Relative pronouns; Comparison of adjectives

Ablative of manner; Deliberative subjunctive; Indirect statement

Ablative of cause; Genitive with special verbs; Dative of direction; Indirect question; Historical Infinitive

Conditional sentences; Dative with compound verbs; Ablative of respect

Accusative of respect; Dative of reference; Myth in art

Myth in art

Projects

Oral reports on the Trojan War

Paper: Expository Writing

Paper: Expository Writing

Oral Presentation: The Aeneid in Art

Seminars

Ovid, Heroides V, “Oenone to Paris”

Hecuba’s speech from Euripides’ Trojan Women

Purcell, “Dido and Aeneas”, musical selections

Theocritus, Idyll 12 , “The Sorceress”

Ovid’s Heroides VII, “Dido to Aeneas”

Horace Odes 1.37 “Cleopatra Ode”

“Odysseus in the Underworld” from Homer’s Odyssey, Book 11

“Death of Hector” from Homer’s Iliad, Book 22