Course Description This intensive, five-week Latin language course has two purposes: providing a continuous period of study of Latin and introducing students to the most important ancient sites of Rome and its surrounding areas. The course meets 5 days a week for 4 hours a day (divided into two sessions) and combines traditional classroom instruction with the active use of Latin as a living language. In the morning session students meet in the classroom to read through a well-known passage from Latin literature connected with an ancient Roman site. The afternoon session uses the city as a classroom. Students visit the site referenced in the morning's readings and work with the instructors in small groups, using Latin actively to interact with each other and the site they are visiting. Grammar, vocabulary and syntax seen in the morning's reading are reinforced and practiced in a memorable and authentic setting. Each Saturday there is a trip to an ancient site outside of the city with associated readings. Sundays are free for relaxing and exploring Rome.

A Typical Week MON. Session I: (Class) Cicero 1st Catilinarian Oration

Session II: (City) Forum Romanum – Curia, Rostra TUES. Session I: (Class) Seneca Epistle #70 – On Gladiators

Session II: (City) Colosseum, Ludus Magnus WED. Session I: (Class) Horace Carmen Saeculare

Session II: (City) Augustus’ Ara Pacis THUR. Session I: (Class) Livy Book 1 – Romulus and Remus

Session II: (City) Banks of the Tiber River FRI. Session I: (Class) St. Anselm - The Existence of God

Session II: (City) Sant’Anselmo Monastery, Aventine SAT. Sperlonga (Daytrip)- Museum/Grotto/Beach

Reading: Tacitus Annales IV, Sejanus saves Tiberius

Prerequisites Intermediate knowledge of Latin grammar = 1 year of college or 2 years of high school Latin

Includes

5 Day Trips • Sperlonga – Museum, Grotto of Tiberius • Tivoli – Hadrian's Villa • Cumae and Bay of Naples (Overnight) –

The Sibyl’s Cave and Mount Vesuvius • Lago Bracciano – Veian lake • Licenza – Horace's” Sabine Villa

Plus…

• Museum and Site Entrances • Welcome and Farewell Dinners • Transportation to and from the Airport

Apply Visit us on the web at: www.spokenlatin.org For more information and to request an application, write to: summerlatin@spokenlatin.org Phone: 201.637.6395

Costs Tuition and Fees $1950 Tuition, Fees and Housing: $3300 Housing includes shared apartments with kitchen and bath. For more information see our website under “Housing.”

Instructors

Eric Hewett

Eric holds an MA in Patristics from the Augustinianum Pontifical Institute and is scheduled to finish his PhD in Medieval Philosophy in October 2012 at the University of Salerno. He is an alumnus of Fr. Fosters' Aestiva Latinitas Romae and spent a year as a visiting student at the Gregorian Pontifical University. He teaches Latin and Italian at the university level in Rome and currently lives in a Latin-speaking household.

Jason Pedicone

Jason holds an M.A. in Classics from Princeton University where he is in the final stages of completing his Ph.D. He is a two-time alumnus of Fr. Reginald Foster’s Aestiva Latinitas Romae, which he helped teach the summer of 2008. He spent 2005-6 in Rome as a visiting student at the University of Rome “The Sapienza” and the Gregorian Pontifical University and returns to Italy often. He has taught Latin and Greek at the university level in Italy, France and the U.S, focusing on the active use of Latin as a spoken language.

Our Philosophy

Latin is a language. It is a cornerstone of Western civilization. Over the millennia it has been the language of emperors, popes, scholars, poets, peasants, prostitutes and soldiers. The vitality which the beautiful Latin language has developed over millennia sometimes fails to come through in the traditional classroom setting when Latin is treated as a grammatical exercise to be dissected and translated instead of a language to be heard, spoken, written and read. We treat Latin as a language. This course gives students with a basic knowledge of Latin Grammar a unique language learning experience that actuates all their God-given language acquisition ability. By combining daily readings and rigorous grammar and syntax review with authentic experiences of active oral production in a one-of-a-kind setting, this course hopes to make its students fall in love with Latin and make it their own. The Latin language has spread across the Western world, but its cradle is the city of Rome. By discovering Latin and its literature in Rome, students naturally associate the language with the sights, smells and textures of the ancient world. Rome and nearby classical sites provide a nexus of meaningful associations that is irreplicable in the typical classroom setting. Miratur facilisque oculos fert omnia circum Aeneas, capiturque locis et singula laetus exquiritque auditque virum monimenta priorum Virgil, Aeneid 8.310-331

Living Latin in Rome

A Spoken Latin Experience

Rome, Italy

June 6 – July 7, 2011