In this intermediate language course students will transition from learning complex grammar to reading actual Latin authors. The fall semester will consist of a review of the grammar and vocabulary which have been learned in the lower level courses and will finish with the acquisition of some rather challenging syntax. For practice, students will translate the myth of Hercules and will explore other hero sagas using Joseph Campbell’s Journey of a Hero. In the spring semester, students will translate The First Catilinarian by Cicero in un-adapted Latin. They will also take a thorough look at the violent political atmosphere in the late Republican period of Roman history.