The course is aimed at those who reached the end of book 5 of the CLC (which is roughly O Level standard) and would like to progress to longer extracts of prose and poetry from Roman authors. We will start with a selection of Pliny’s Letters and parts of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 1V, the story of Dido and Aeneas, as well as passages from other authors in the Cambridge Anthology, Tacitus, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, and Catullus. We will continue to study the use of grammatical constructions, variations of vocabulary and style as they arise in our reading. In a friendly, lively atmosphere, our knowledge and understanding of Roman life and attitudes will be explored in discussion of topics we meet in our translations. Newcomers wishing to refresh their knowledge of Latin and the Romans, would be welcome.