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Classics & Early Christian Literature
 The study of Greek and Latin literature has endured for over two thousand years, as Horace predicted when he wrote about his own poetry in Odes, III, 30, "Exegi monumentum aere perennius" (I have built a monument more lasting than bronze). Throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern age up to the nineteenth century, Latin in particular was the essential language of scholarship in the West. To study the Latin and Greek Classics now is to continue a tradition that, while no longer the assured possession of every learned person, still brings the student into a fellowship with the greatest thinkers and artists of the past in a way no other field of study can achieve. Ave Maria University offers a major in Classics and Early Christian Literature, with concentration in Latin. |
 | recent graduates
- Clare Robidoux '07, graduating class salutatorian and recipient of an outstanding student award from the American Philological Association, will begin graduate study in classics in Florida State University. She has spent a year teaching Latin at Cardinal Newman School in Houston, TX.
Luke DeWeese '06 is in his second year of two master's degree programs, the great books program of Saint John's University, Annapolis, and the Master's Degree program in Latin at the University of Kentucky.
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 | Featured Course - latin fathers of the church LATN 304--Dr. Nodes For spring, 2008 readings center on patristic commentary on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, on which the Fathers wrote abundantly. Time permitting, the Parable of the Prodigal Son may also be considered. The Latin Fathers' writings on the parables embrace the widest variety of literary forms, from polemics and academic treatises to homilies and hymns, most written with a power and grace that offer living communication to modern readers from our Christian ancestors. It may come as a surprise that the patristic interpretation of the parables differ markedly from the usual modern interpretations. A principal reason for this is the far stronger penchant for allegorical interpretation in the Fathers. To witness this tendency further, and to hear it explained, the class will also read relevant sections of Augustine's De doctrina Christiana and all of Book 4. Researching Latin Writings of the Church Fathers |
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