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CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B
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Offered: Hobart: semester 2
Special note: may be taken as an English or Women’s Studies unit
Unit description:
Examines the responses of major writers (Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid) to Augustus’ transformation of the Roman state, concentrating on their reaction to the emperor’s moral and social program and increasingly autocratic government. A wide variety of texts will be studied, including love elegy, didactic, lyric and narrative poetry.
| Staff | Assoc Prof P Davis | For information on staff, turn to relevant Faculty website University phone and email search phone email |
| Unit weight | 12.5% | To see normal University Admission requirements |
| Teaching pattern | 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly | Timetable |
| Prerequisites | 25% in level 100 Ancient Civilisations or English | |
| Mutual exclusions | HTC222/322 | |
| Assessment mode | 3,000 words written work (50%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%) | Examinations timetable (Users will need to know their login name (POP account) and password) |
| Required texts etc | [p/b] Virgil, Eclogues and Georgics,
tr Day Lewis, ISBN 0192816438 [p/b] Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes, tr West, ISBN 0192832468 [p/b] Propertius, The Poems, tr Lee, ISBN 0192831984 [p/b] Ovid, Fasti, tr Boyle, ISBN 0140446907 |
Library Catalogue
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| Majors: [Discipline and school information] | Ancient Civilisations
English Women's Studies |
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| Courses | Bachelor of Arts (See also combined degrees) | |
| Faculty website | Faculty of Arts |
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