LFU:online

Expansion and consolidation of the knowledge of the Latin prose literature. Consolidation of language competence and translation skills.

Translation of passages from Latin prose works from various genres and periods.

Regular translation assessment

15 written assessments. 

The assessments should confirm that you have read and prepared the texts. They have two parts: several questions about the contents of the text and a translation of a passage from it into German or English. If one part of the assessment is negativ, the whole assessment is negativ.

You need at least 10 positive assessments in order to pass the course.

READING LIST:

Caesar, De bello Gallico VI, 9-28

Cicero, Pro Archia poeta 1–22

Cicero, Somnium Scipionis (De re publica VI, 9–29)

Sallustius, De coniuratione Catilinae 5-20

Livius I 1-9

Suetonius, Titus

Tacitus, Germania 1-20

Seneca, Epistulae morales VI, 53-56

Plinius minor, Epistulae VI, 15-20

Rhetorica ad Herennium I, 1-13

Preliminary meeting on March 3rd.

First assessment (Caesar) on March 17th.