Module Identifier CL30420  
Module Title ROMAN LITERATURE: THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS  
Academic Year 2000/2001  
Co-ordinator Dr Telfryn Pritchard  
Semester Semester 2  
Course delivery Lecture   24 lectures / seminars / tutorials  
Assessment Essay   2 essays (3,000 words each)   100%  

Brief description
The module examines a variety of genres representative of the literature of the Augustan Age. Particular attention is paid to Virgil's Eclogues (pastoral) and Georgics (didactic), Horace's Satires (satire), Livy's History of Rome (historiography), Ovid's Metamorphoses (mythological epic), and Propertius (love elegy). No previous knowledge of Classical literature is required. All texts will be studied in translation.