From lwright@cac.washington.edu Wed Mar 8 09:32:43 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA37252 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:32:42 -0800 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA27001 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:32:42 -0800 Received: from shiva2.cac.washington.edu (shiva2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.100.202]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA18974 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:32:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (lwright@localhost) by shiva2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA13355 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:32:41 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:32:41 -0800 (PST) From: Linda Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: summer program, UT Austin Classics (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:29:06 -0800 (PST) From: Constanze Witt Subject: summer program, UT Austin Classics The University of Texas at Austin Summer Program features a wide selection of Classical Civilization classes, a renowned intensive Ancient Greek course, lower-division Latin, and a special three-week course for Latin teachers. Please check out our web-site at http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/summer/ for details. First Summer Session runs from June 7 - July 14, 2000 Second Summer Session runs from July 17 - August 19, 2000 Whole Summer Session (for Intensive Greek) runs from June 7 - August 19, 2000. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail Paula Perry, Classics Undergaduate Coordinator, at mailto:ugclass@mail.utexas.edu Roman Epic from Ovid to Statius: The UT-Austin Department of Classics will offer a three-week course for Latin teachers (as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students) in the Summer of 2000. This year's class will be Roman Epic from Ovid to Statius, taught by Andrew Zissos. The class will meet June 12-30, Monday through Friday, 8:30 -11:30 a.m. This course will examine the major epic poems of the early Roman empire, including Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, and Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid. These have all become very important poems in recent years, as the "canon" has expanded within the field of Classical literary studies. We will get a solid grounding in each poet through extensive reading, as well as examine them individually and collectively in their historical and literary-historical contexts. A focus throughout will be on considering the poems of Lucan, Valerius and Statius as they relate to the two great epics of the Augustan period, Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. In terms of literary-historical issues, one aim will be to investigate the extent to which, just as Vergil sets a thematic agenda, so Ovid sets a poetic agenda that resonates strongly in his epic successors. Intensive Greek: An accelerated course for highly motivated students. Students of diverse backgrounds and interests will develop a keen understanding of the structure of the Greek language and a love of Greek prose and poetry. No previous knowledge of Greek necessary. If you have had a year or two, the special approach in this course will deepen your grasp of how Greek works and why it is so subtle a vehicle for conveying ideas) . The class will meet June 7 - August 19, Monday through Friday, 8:30-11:00 a.m. and 12:00-2:30 p.m. First half will be taught by Tom Palaima, second half by David Armstrong. @<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@ Paula Perry - Undergraduate Coordinator Classics Dept., University of Texas at Austin Waggener Hall 121 Austin, TX 78712-1181 (512) 471-8502 Fax: (512) 471-4111 ugclass@mail.utexas.edu http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle @<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@<>@ .