Texts
Cicero, Selected Works, tr. Michael Grant, Penguin.
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, tr. Green, Penguin.
Petronius, Seneca, The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis. Penguin
USA (Paper).
Plautus, Four Comedies : The Braggart Soldier, the Brothers Menaechmus,
the Haunted House, Pot of Gold (World's Classics) tr. Erich Segal,
Oxford Univ. Pr.
Propertius, The Poems (Penguin).
Sallust, Jugurthine War, Conspiracy of Cataline (Penguin)
Seneca, The Tragedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation)
tr. David R. Slavitt.
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, tr. Michael Grant. Viking
Press.
Vergil, The Aeneid, tr. Fitzgerald, Random House
Tests, Papers, and Participation
1 mid-term exam (1 hour) 20%
1 final exam (3 hours) 30%
1 10-15 page research paper, on an approved topic (see guidelines on separate handout). In addition to turning in the paper on the last day of class, you will give a 15-20 minute oral report on your research to the class near the end of the semester. (25% of course grade)
Participation in class and in electronic discussion via the course's distribution list (LATLIT-L). Students will be expected to contribute at least 20 lines per week to the class at large. Participation on-line will be particularly important for students who are taking the course off-campus. (25% of course grade)
Course Objectives
To give you a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Latin literature from its beginnings through the silver age, and an understanding of the important literary development of its major genres.
To explore in some depth several important Roman authors (see Texts).
To give you a grounding in basic research techniques, both conventional and electronic, especially as they are related to topics in Latin literature.