The Warburg Institute's programme of online short courses continues through the Spring Term 2022, taught by Dr Lucy Nicholas via the zoom platform. We have a few places remaining. Please click on the title links below to book.
Intermediate Renaissance Latin 4-day intensive
Tuesday to Friday, 4 to 7 January 2022: 11.00am – 3.45pm (UK time / GMT)
This course will focus on grammar and syntax in the mornings, and in the afternoon session on Latin texts from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. A basic knowledge of verbs (active forms in all tenses), nouns and adjectives will be assumed, and we will focus (inter alia) on the passive, participles, subjunctives and various constructions. In the afternoon classes we will travel through three centuries of early modern Latin, looking at both prose and verse, and engaging with a range of Renaissance themes and the variety of topics Latin writing encompassed, from law and from theology to philosophy. One of the key aims of the course is to help students develop the ability to read original sources in Latin with greater ease.
Classical Greek Texts - Advanced: 18 January - 15 March 2022
Tuesdays: 2.00-3.00pm (UK time / GMT)
The Warburg Institute offers a continuation of its online reading course in Classical Greek for advanced level students with a further eight sessions across the Spring Term 2022. This is a text-based course, and we will continue in Term 2 (Spring 2022) with a focus on Euripides' Trojan Women. Students will be expected to prepare passages in advance, which we will then read together, and discuss, taking into account literary, linguistic and contextual perspectives. The recommended edition is Aris and Phillips, ed. S. A. Barlow (1986).
Classical Greek - Beginners: 20 January - 17 March 2022
Thursdays: 5.00-6.00pm (UK time / GMT)
A further eight sessions for beginners during the Spring Term 2022, continuing on from the end of Chapter 3 of the course text book, John Taylor's (Revised Edition) Greek to GCSE - Part 1. We have already covered:
- first and second declension nouns
- present, future and imperfect tenses (of the active form only)
- present imperatives and infinitives
A principal aim of the course is to equip students with an essential set of linguistic navigational tools, which can serve as a springboard for further study of both language and literature. An initial level of competence in the language will, it is hoped, also engender a corresponding degree of confidence when it comes to encounters with Greek in Renaissance texts. Greek was a highly prized, but also deeply contested language right through the early modern period, and a further dimension of the course will be a consideration of the implications of using Greek during the 14th to the 17th centuries.