Rebecca has something called "Ovid" after Mal studies which will hopefully be less upsetting.
It turns out Ovid was a poet who wrote a lot of poems in Latin. They get a syllabus; they will be covering half the books of the Metamorphoses and all the Heroides and all the Epistulae ex Ponto, and then have their choice of additional Ovid later in the term. They get several different English translations and they're supposed to turn in a comparison between some of them next time the class meets, on Monday.
It's kind of a lot to get hit with on day one of classes, in Rebecca's opinion. The class doesn't even provide a dictionary so probably she'll have to get one in the library later.