August 19
Week 1. Origins. Latin among the Indo-European languages and the Italic dialects; a brief examination of Oscan and Umbrian texts; a brief survey of Indo-European poetics; early Latin literary forms: carmina: prayers, hymns (Cato's prayer to Mars), & inscriptions.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[chart
of Indo-European languages]
[dialect
map of pre-Roman Italy]
[a
sample of Umbrian]
[Cato's
prayer to Mars]
[epitaphs
of the Scipios]
[photo
of Scipio Barbatus' sarcophagus]
[photo
of L. Cornelius Scipio's epitaph]
[outline
of class lecture]
[top of page]
August 26
Week 2: Early epic. Ancient models: The Iliad and the Odyssey; the Epic Cycle; Hellenistic Epic: Apollonius of Rhodes (Argonautica), Callimachus and Alexandrian poetry. Early Latin epic: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius. Indo-European, Greek, and old Latin verse forms, and the rise of the hexameter in Latin.
Reading and Discussion: Aeneid I-IV.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[notes
and samples of early epic]
[fragments
of Livius, Naevius, & Ennius]
[top of page]
September 2
Week 3: Lucretius and Augustan Epic. Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid. Transformations of the epic form for new purposes. Philosophy & Science, Politics, History, and Mythology in epic. (Parker, Fasti)
Reading and Discussion: Aeneid V-VIII.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Lucretius]
[Stoicism]
[Epicureanism]
[Ovid]
[De
Rerum Natura proem -- English and Latin]
Links of interest:
[Lucretius'
On the Nature of Things in English]
[Vergil's Home
Page]
[Aelius
Donatus' Life of Virgil]
[The Vergil
Project]
[some Ovid links]
[top of page]
Refreshments: Cheek
September 9
Week 4: Later Epic. Neronian and Flavian epic: Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Statius. The rise of mannerism.
Reading and Discussion: Aenied IX-XII
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Lucan]
[Proems
to Pharsalia, Thebaid, Punica, Argonautica (Latin & English)]
[Proem
to the Aeneid (Latin & English)]
Links of interest:
[Pharsalia
in English]
[Statius
Thebaid book VI (in English)]
[top of page]
Refreshments: Todd
September 16
Week 5: Comedy. Greek Old and New Comedy: Aristophanes, Menander. Roman transformations of New Comedy: Plautus, Terence.
Reading and Discussion: Menaechmi, Rope.
Links of interest:
Refreshments: Farber
September 23
Week 6: Tragedy. Conventions of Greek Tragedy. Accius, Pacuvius; Seneca. Roman transformations and focus upon the grotesque. (Danford)
Reading and Discussion: Medea, Thyestes.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Accius]
Links of interest:
[Seneca
and Shakespeare (Brian Arkins)]
[Excerpt
from Seneca's Consolatio ad Helviam (in English)]
[Philosophical
and Theatrical Responses to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University)]
[Stoicism (from
the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)]
Refreshments: Kitchen
September 30
Paper Topics Due
Week 7: Republican Historians. The birth of historiography and the purpose of history writing. Herodotus, Thucydides, & Hellenistic Historiography. Polybius. Early Roman historians: Annalists; Fabius Pictor; Cato, Origines. Sallust, Caesar. The aims of Roman historians.
Guest lecture: Prof. Kathryn Williams on Sallust.
Reading and Discussion: Tacitus, Annals books 12-13 (pp. 252-312 in the Penguin edition).
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Caesar]
[early
Roman historiography]
[Two
fragments from Cato's Origines]
[A
sample of Tacitus' prose (Latin)]
[Image
of Marius]
[Image
of Sulla]
Links of Interest
Refreshments: Hinshaw
October 7
Mid-Term Exam
Week 8: Early Imperial Historians. Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius. Chronicling the decay of the Roman state.
Guest lecture: Prof. Stephen Ruzicka on Tacitus.
Reading and Discussion: Tacitus, Annals, book 14 (pp. 313-344 in the Penguin edition)
Supplementary materials for this week:
Links of Interest
Refreshments: Jenkins
October 14 -- Fall Break
October 21
Week 9: Elegy. Greek elegy. Roman elegy: Gallus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid. The entrance of personal love poetry into public life.
Reading and Discussion: Propertius, books I and II; poems IV.1, IV.7
Supplementary materials for this week:
Refreshments: Patton
October 28
Week 10: Oratory. Greek: Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates,
Demosthenes. Latin: Hortensius, Caesar, Cicero, Quintilian, the elder Seneca,
Tacitus (Dialogus de oratoribus).
Reading and Discussion: Cicero, Second Philippic
Supplementary materials for this week:
[development
of Roman oratory]
[Cicero]
[Quintilian]
[top of page]
Refreshments: Robards
November 4
First Draft of Paper Due
Week 11: Lyric. Greek lyric. Archilochus, Sappho.
Roman lyric: Catullus, Horace
Refreshments: Arnette
November 11
Week 12: Pastoral and Agricultural Literature. Hesiod, Theocritus; Vergil, Eclogues, Georgics; Agricultural prose writers: Cato, Varro, Columella. The real and the imagined countryside; politics and pastores.
Reading and Discussion: Eclogue I, Eclogue II, Georgic IV
Supplementary materials for this week:
Links of interest:
[Vergil, Georgic I, Georgic II, Georgic III, Georgic IV -- Internet Classics Archive]
[Vergil, Eclogues]
[ top of page]
Refreshments: Carlson-Jones
November 18
Week 13: Satire. Ennius, Lucilius, Varro, Horace, Persius, Martial, Juvenal.
Reading and Discussion: Juvenal, selected Satires I, II, VI, IX, X.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Apocolocyntosis]
[Juvenal]
[Horace in Hollywood]
[top of page]
Refreshments: Furman
November 25
Week 14: Philosophy. Stoics & Epicureans. Cicero, Seneca.
Reading and Discussion: Cicero, On Duty
Links of interest:
[Texts
of some of Seneca's philosphical works (from the Latin Library)]
[The
Cicero Homepage]
[Stoicism:
from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Refreshments: Oates
December 2
Final Draft of Paper Due
Week 15: The ancient novel. Petronius, Satiricon; Apuleius, The Golden Ass.
Reading and Discussion: Petronius, Trimalchio's Dinner Party.
Supplementary materials for this week:
[Petronius]
[top of page]
Refreshments: Anderson
December 9
FINAL EXAM
4:30 - 7 p.m.
