Skills+Form+IV

=Skills You Will Have Mastered by the End of the Year=

1. How to scan a Latin verse, marking all long and short syllables, caesurae, and elisions. 2. How to read a Latin verse, paying attention to the meter. 3. How to detect poetic devices and figures of speech contained within a Latin poem (listed on pp.10-14 of L&B). 4. Hendecasyllabic meter 5. Iambic trimeter 6. Choliambic meter 7. Sapphic strophe 8. Dactylic hexameter 9. Elegaic couplet 10. All the metrical terms used to describe the meters listed above.

In addition to the purely literary skills above, we will also learn much about the life and times of the poet Catullus. We will consider the historic context of his poetry, but we will also strive to analyze Catullus's poetry in purely personal terms.