LAT4320 – Latin Poetry II

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• translate the course texts and provide insightful interpretations.
• analyse the texts’ features in relation to their genre, rhetoric, stylistics, or other relevant aspects.
• read the poems aloud, based on an analysis of their meter, and explain the meter in writing.
• reflect on how the texts’ formal and linguistic elements affect their interpretation and translation.
• examine the texts through the lens of historical, cultural, or other relevant aspects.

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

You must be admitted to Classical Studies (master) to sign up for this course. Students enrolled in other Master`s Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

14 two-hour seminars during the semester.

In spring 2026 the teaching is common with LAT2431 – Advanced Seminar in Latin II.

We expect you to prepare for the seminars.

NB: If no more than two students sign up for the course, the teaching may be given as supervised reading.

In order for you to be allowed to sit for the final examination, the following compulsory tuition activity must be approved by the teacher:

• Submission of a draft of the seminar paper (minimum 3 pages)

Approved tuition activity is valid only in the semester in which it has been approved.

Seminar paper of 10-15 pages (of 2300 characters each, without spaces. Title page and reference list not included).

You submit your assignment in the digital examination system Inspera. You must familiarize yourself with Inspera before the submission deadline. Read about how to submit your assignment in Inspera.

In order for you to qualify for the final examination, all compulsory tuition activities must be approved by the teacher.

You are required to familiarize yourself with the rules for sources and citations. It may be considered cheating or attempted cheating to use other people's material without informing about it.

AI based Generative tools, such as ChatGPT, are not legitimate sources. Generating exams answers, or parts of answers, using tools created by, or using, artificial intelligence (AI) may be considered cheating.