CICERO: DE SENECTUTE
A Guided Reading
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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, "CICERO'S DE SENECTUTE: A Guided Reading"
SALVETE, VOS OMNES!! This is the site for my online guided reading of Cicero's De Senectute/"On Old Age."
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. Cicero's prose in this treatise, one of his most widely read, is often extremely challenging, hence the requirement for extensive prior reading experience.
This guided reading, like my other tutorials, is asynchronous and highly personalized; we will proceed one section at a time through the essay's 85 sections. The recommended texts are:
- Charles Bennett's edition, available here
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And the LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY edition + translation by W. A. Falconer, available 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
TESTIMONIUM
Professor LaFleur’s Latin tutorials, following the WHEELOCK courses, had previously been limited to poetry, a choice of which I heartily approve for reasons too numerous to mention here. Yet Cicero's prose has been held up as a model of both the best and the most difficult Latin (and not far from poetry in its challenges). Thus I was very much pleased when Dr. LaFleur added this guided reading on Cicero's DE SENECTUTE to his curriculum: it has been both challenging and exciting to explore in detail “what the fuss is all about.” And the substance of Cicero's treatise relates to our own lives even more directly than that of Vergil and Ovid. LaFleur’s guidance and explanations in a given passage enable the student to occasionally untangle independently a long ‘period' in another, later passage. The pride in such accomplishments can brighten one's day again and again!
MDK, pediatric surgeon 
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