SELECTIONS FROM CATULLUS
A Guided Reading
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Dr.
Richard A. LaFleur Recipient of the 2013 ACTFL Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education |
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Welcome to the website for my tutorial, "SELECTIONS FROM CATULLUS: A Guided Reading"
SALVETE, VOS OMNES!! This is the site for my online guided reading of selections from the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus.
This is an independent self-paced tutorial for adult learners with a strong background in Latin, including ordinarily my full curriculum of tutorials: WHEELOCK'S LATIN (Latin I-II), Ovid, Vergil, and Juvenal, or a reasonably comprehensive equivalent.
This directed reading, like my other tutorials, is asynchronous and highly personalized; we will proceed one poem at a time through selected readings. Procedures for the tutorial are linked here.
The recommended texts are:
- Kenneth Quinn's CATULLUS: THE POEMS (1998), available at various sites online including here and here.
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The LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY edition + translation by Cornish, et al., 2nd edition, revised by G.P. Goold, available at various sites online including here.
- Ronnie Ancona's WRITING PASSION: A CATULLUS READER, 2nd edition, available at various sites online including here and here.
If you think you may be interested in applying for this course of study, please email me for further information.
R. A. (“Rick”) LaFleur, aka Doctor Illa Flora
TESTIMONIA
The detail, time, and trouble you take as a Latin tutor are very important to me. Your responses improve my understanding of the language much more than checking the Loeb or other translations and resources could do. AND, as I have said before, your courses, including this one, are not just language courses. They are also literature courses, and they make one stop, listen, look, think, do close reading. The student begins to feel and not just know.
MDK, pediatric surgeon 
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