LAT 101 - Introductory Latin I

This course fulfills the college’s language requirement and is your gateway to advanced Latin at Davidson. Together, we’ll review the language’s grammar, read and discuss a variety of excerpts in prose and poetry, and explore concepts such as semantics, pronunciation, metrics, and translation.

This fall, our theme will be the depiction of foreign leaders in Latin literature. We will read works about Hannibal, Vercingetorix, Boudicca, and Cleopatra, and consider a number of issues across these texts. How do the depictions of foreign leaders reveal authors’ views on other nations and peoples, and how do they use “otherness” to construct and respond to their own Roman leaders?

Prerequisites & Notes
(Offered annually, Fall only.)