Texts: Roman Lyric Poetry: Catullus and Horace, selected with commentary by A. G. McKay and D. M. Shepherd, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988; Elementary Latin Dictionary, C. T. Lewis, Ph.D., Oxford University Press, 1991 (the latter is property of the department and is loaned to students for their use).

Readings from selected poems of Catullus and Horace, as recommended by the AP "Acorn Book," is the goal of the course. Students are expected to translate the poems accurately and be able to understand and discuss underlying meanings, general themes and the poets's skill, as demonstrated by their mode of expression, along with the use of literary devices, imagery, sound and metrical effects. They are to study and practice, both in writing and reading, the scansion of the following meters found in the poems: hendecasyllabic line, elegiac distich, dactylic hexameter, Alcaic, Sapphic and the Fourth Asclepiadean strophe.

 Instructor: Mr. Christopher Strawn Period 2 Period 7