{"id":1902,"date":"2022-01-21T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2022-01-21T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:30:34","slug":"2022-dickinson-summer-latin-workshop-senecas-natural-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/dcc\/2022\/01\/21\/2022-dickinson-summer-latin-workshop-senecas-natural-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Seneca’s Natural Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: July 11-15, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moderators: Prof. Chris Francese<\/a> and Dr. Meghan Reedy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop will be held online this year. While this situation is far from ideal, we hope it will allow those who could not normally travel to Carlisle to participate.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>

First page of the manuscript De questionibus Naturalibus, made for the Catalan-Aragonese crown. Image: Wikipedia (Public Domain)<\/p><\/div>\n

This year’s text is one seldom read these days, the Naturales Quaestione<\/em>s<\/a> of Seneca the Younger. This prose work concerns natural phenomena (rivers, earthquakes, wind, snow, meteors, and comets). It gives fascinating insights into ancient philosophical and scientific approaches to the physical world, and also vivid evocations of the grandeur, beauty, and terror of nature. Seneca also comments on aspects of Roman culture, such as the commercial trade in snow and the decadent (in his view) use of mirrors. The selections we will read are from a forthcoming Dickinson College Commentaries<\/a> edition of selections from NQ<\/em> edited by Prof. Chris Trinacty of Oberlin College. Participants will have pre-publication access to Chris’s detailed notes and vocabulary lists.<\/p>\n

We are delighted to welcome back Dr. Meghan Reedy as guest instructor. She is a former Dickinson faculty member and is currently Program Coordinator with the Maine Humanities Council. <\/p>\n

Meetings<\/h1>\n