<div dir="ltr">Dear Arts Faculty and Staff members,<br>
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Last year, faculty members and students from the Department of Philosophy formed a Latin Reading Group (LRG). Throughout the winter term, the group had weekly hour-long meetings, in which it began to work through a 16th century Logic text, <i>Dialecticae</i>, by Petrus Ramus (Pierre Ramée), a prominent French anti-Aristotelian who was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Ramus is known for his elegant, humanistic Latin, and was influential in his time, although he is little remembered today. For information on<br>
Ramus, see <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12638b.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12638b.htm</a>. The version of <i>Dialecticae </i>that we are using is the 1672 Cambridge edition with commentary by Guilielmus Amesius, available online at<br>
<a href="http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?ACTION=ByID&SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ID=V63651" target="_blank">http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?ACTION=ByID&SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ID=V63651</a>. You can also access this link by logging on to UW ACE and searching under "Groups" for "Latin Reading Group." <br>
<br>This fall, we shall resume our reading of this text. If you are interested in joining the Latin Reading Group, please contact me (by email or at the extension below) at your earliest convenience and let me know which days/times you are able to meet. The group includes members with various degrees of Latin proficiency (so, even if you haven't studied Latin since high school, there's a place for you in the LRG). Please pass this invitation on to any of your colleagues or students whom you think may be interested in taking part.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Shannon Dea</div><br clear="all"> -- <br>Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies<br>Department of Philosophy<br>University of Waterloo<br>200 University Ave. W. <br>Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1<br>(519) 888-4567 (ext. 32778)<br>
FAX (519) 746-3097<br>
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