Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This module will involve close reading of Seneca&#039;s Apocolocyntosis (ed. P....

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

Content: This module will involve close reading of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis (ed. P. T. Eden, Cambridge 1984) and De Brevitate Vitae (ed. G. Williams, Cambridge 2003).  Consideration will be given to language, form, genre, historical context, philosophical background, and reception.

Skills:  By the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate intellectual, transferable and practicable skills appropriate to a level 6 module and in particular will be able to demonstrate:

– a good overall sense of the background, emergence and development of Latin literature in the imperial period

– an ability to translate and comment upon Latin literature of the period

– an ability to comment upon the relationship between Latin literature of this period and its predecessors

– an awareness of some of the political and historical issues relevant to literature of this kind in this period

– the capacity to engage critically with both primary and secondary literature to produce innovative interpretations and insights

– the ability to deploy appropriate evidence in oral presentation and discussion as well as in written work

– an understanding of the methodological challenges of dealing with literature of this period

– an awareness of the key theoretical issues relevant to this material

Texts: Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (ed. P. T. Eden, Cambridge 1984) and De Brevitate Vitae (ed. G. Williams, Cambridge 2003). 

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.

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