Description
Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 weekly classes.
Content: This course, taught in 20 weekly classes, aims to enable students to acquire the principles and techniques of writing Latin prose (translation from English). Some passages will be worked on in class; others will be prepared in advance and discussed. The use of an approved Latin to English dictionary (but not an English to Latin or a combined dictionary) will be permitted in the examination.Ìý
Skills: At the end of the course students should have an ability to translate, under timed examination conditions, a passage of English prose into Latin prose. They should also have an enhanced understanding of what it means to translate from one language and cultural system into another.Ìý
Suggested reading:
- R. Ashdowne & J. Morwood 2007 An introduction to writing in the language of Cicero and Caesar (London).
- R. Colebourn 1987 Latin Sentence and Idiom. A Composition CourseÌý(Bristol).
- M. A. North & A. E. Hillard 2003 Latin prose composition for schoolsÌý(London) = latest reprint of: Latin prose composition for the middle forms of schools, 13th ed., London 1938.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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