instructor:    Jim Marks
                     jmarks@ufl.edu
                     139 Dauer Hall
                     office hours MWF 6th 10:30-11:30

Our goal is to improve Latin reading skills and to appreciate Ovid’s playful, complex and influential epic poem.  We will at the same time become acquainted with the historical and cultural context of Ovid’s text, and with the intricacies of his Latin.  Prerequisite: a 2000-level Latin class. NOTE: THE READINGS FOR THIS CLASS ARE IN LATIN. This course fulfills University of Florida general education requirements H (Humanities) and N (International).

required texts (purchase online or at local bookstores)

• The Student’s Ovid: Selections from the Metamorphoses, edited by Margaret Musgrove (University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0806132205) available at Orange & Blue Textbooks (309 NW 13th St, 375-2707)
• a Latin Grammar, such as Bennett’s New Latin Grammar (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, ISBN 0865162611)
• a Latin-English dictionary, such as Cassell’s

evaluation
grades will be based on class participation, quizzes, exams and a final:

class participation = 10% of total grade: full credit will be given to students who come to class prepared to translate and discuss the assigned passages

weekly quizzes (non-cumulative): 6% each = 60% of total grade

exams (non-cumulative): 15% each = 30% of total grade

• Wednesday April 22 (last class day)
  

• outline of the Metamorphoses