In the second year of Latin, you will gain the knowledge and sophistication that will enable you to read and understand Latin on your own. Our study of Roman civilization will include a close examination of the reasons for the fall of Rome and its revival during the Renaissance. In the spring, you will take an advanced level of the National Latin Exam and celebrate by delivering a proclamation that Latin now lives on in you in the language of Cicero. We will end the year with a classical symposium that will include not only a further study of ancient Greek but also the wit and wisdom of Socrates.