LNW 2560: Readings in Latin Literature; Fall 2002   RICH MEN, SLAVES, AND  DEGENERATES:  PETRONIUS AND ROMAN LIFE IN  THE AGE OF NERO

Section Number:   3022X; M W F 6;   TUR B310  General Ed: H

Instructor: Professor. Lewis A. Sussman

Prerequisites: LAT 1122, LAT 1131, or 2 years of high school Latin or permission of instructor. May be repeated with a change of content up to 6 credits.

PETRONIUS was the official consultant to Nero's court on elegant living. Noted for his wit, style,and devotion to the pleasures of the flesh, he wrote a superb satirical novel on the wealth, debauchery, greed, and luxury of this decadent age. Students will read selections from this novel (the Satyrica) in Latin. Supplementing the course will be slide presentations and two movies ('Fellini Satyricon' and 'Quo Vadis') dealing with Roman life of the period. There will also be a systematic review of Latin grammar and vocabulary.

Instructor Bio: Lewis Sussman, Professor of Classics,  received his B.A. from Princeton and the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. His field of scholarship is Roman oratory and rhetoric (about which he has written three books), but he pursues wide ranging interests in the history and archaeology of Greek and Roman civilization through reading, travel, and the courses he teaches. He was the recipient of a State University System TIP (Teaching) award several years ago. Students with questions about the course may contact him by e-mail (sussman@classics.ufl.edu).
 

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