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Summer Institute 2007
2007
SUMMER LATIN INSTITUTE
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Early Christian Authors
July 9-19, 2007
Instructor: K. Kapparis
Daily Schedule
Advisory Sessions for Distance Students: 9.30
-11.00
(Dr. Johnson or Dr. Yates)
Mornings can also be used for graduate qualifying examinations and library
visits.
Session 1: 11.00 - 12.15
Lunch Break (1 hour)
Session 2: 1.15 - 2.30
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
Session 3. 2.45 - 4.00
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
Session 4. 4.15 - 5.30
(Undergraduate and Graduate classes work separately)
Library Session
Shelley Arlen will offer a library orientation session on Tuesday, July 10, 3:30-4:30 in Library West, Room 211. All participants must attend this session.
Aims and Objectives:
The purpose of this course is to offer insights into the works of early Christian authors who wrote in Latin. In addition, graduate students will also have the opportunity to study some of the works of early Greek Fathers of the Church in translation. We will read representative selections from Lactantius and Tertullian, and additionally with graduate students Augustin, Justin, Clement and John Chrysostom. In the course of these readings we will seek to expand our vocabulary to include terminology commonly used in Church and Medieval Latin, discuss selectively matters of textual criticism, understand better the influence of Graeco-Roman culture upon Christianity, and discuss some interesting issues that seem to have sparked much debate in the early church, and still can generate vigorous discussion in the present.Thus this course will approach the writings of early Christian authors from several angles and seek to benefit from the richness and cultural diversity of these works.
Topics and Texts:
Week 1: Early Christianity and Pagan Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Lactantius: Epitome Divinarum
Institutionum
(Sections: 2, 4, 7, 9. 10, 11, 26, 31, 37, 39, 47, 68, 71,
73, as they appear in the following online translation. Students using
various editions could work out the correspondance.)
Edition: Eberhard Heck - Antonie
Wlosok (Teubner 1994)
Online Translation by the Rev. William Fletcher:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf07.iii.ii.viii.html
Introductory Powerpoint Presentation
Week 2: Issues of Gender and Sexual Morality in the Early Church
Tertullian: De Virginibus Velandis
Online Edition V. Bulhart (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
1957):
http://www.tertullian.org/works/de_virginibus_velandis.htm
Online Translation by the Rev. S. Thelwall:
http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-09.htm#P545_113997
Additional study for graduate students only:
Augustine: De
Civitate Dei
[Monday, July 16-Tuesday, July 17]
(Book 1: Preface, 28, 30, 32,33; Book 2: 4,
5, 8, 9,13; Book 3: 12,19, Book 4: 29, Book
20: 1,7)
Online Edition (The Latin Library):
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/august.html
Online Translation (Christian Classics Ethereal Library) by M. Dods
et al.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.i.html
Justin: The Discourse to the
Greeks (In Translation)
[Monday, July 9-Tuesday, July 10]
(Online translation: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.v.i.html)
Clement of Alexandria: Stromateis,
Book 8 (In Translation)
[Wednesday, July 11-Thursday, July 12]
(On philosophical and theological
enquiry)
(Also available online in Christian Classics Ethereal Library, and
elsewhere)
John Chrysostom: Three Homilies
on the Power of Demons (In Translation)
[Friday, July 13-Saturday, July 14]
(http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109.x.i.html)
A basic set of instructions for essay writing
Questions? Contact the Distance Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Velvet Yates, at vyates@ufl.edu.
Past Summer Institutes
- View Images from the 2007 Christian Authors Institute
- View images from the 2006 Roman Satire Institute
- View images from the 2005 Lucretius Institute
- View images from the 2004 Fasti Institute
- View images from the 2003 Livy Institute
- View images from the 2002 Cicero Institute
- View images from the 1999 Catullus Institute
- View images from the 1998 Latin Institute
