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Latin
1c is a course suitable for those who have taken
Latin to A-level, AS-level, Higher, or equivalent
standard. Latin 2a is a course for those who have
completed first year Latin. Intermediate Latin
1 is a course for Graduate Students with some
existing knowledge of Latin. Those who have doubts
about which of these courses is for them, or whether
they should be taking a beginners' course, should
consult Dr
Gavin Kelly.
Whether
you are a new student or already at Edinburgh,
it is a good idea to get ahead with the set texts
if you can: details below. First years should
also make sure they have a decent dictionary,
and a copy of Morwood's Latin
Grammar.
The
set texts for Semester One, 2010-11, are selections
from the Cena Trimalchionis, from Petronius' novel
the Satyricon, and selections from Pliny's letters.
For
Petronius you should use Konrad Müller's text.
Müller’s text of the Cena may be found
in his Teubner edition of the whole Satyricon,
cheaply in an edition
with parallel German translation by W. Ehlers
or, more expensively but usefully, with
English commentary by M. Smith. Smith's edition
has minor variants from the other two, listed
here .
All three editions are available in Blackwell's.
(Do not get the Loeb: the text is notably inferior
and you'll be confused by the variants). The set
passages are 26-34, 41-48 and 65-78), though second
years should aim to read more. Vocabulary lists
for the set passages may be dowloaded here
(you are encouraged to adapt these lists
to your own needs).
For Pliny,
the set edition is A.N. Sherwin-White, Fifty
Letters of Pliny (Oxford, 1969). The set letters
are his numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 17, 18, 22, 25,
31, 33, 36, 38, 47, 48.
Next
semester's set texts will be Ovid Metamorphoses
3 and Propertius book 1.
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