CLASSICS 272
A SURVEY OF LATIN LITERATURE
10 MWF, A-301 TRIBBLE
PROF. ULERY
Office B-5A, x5873
Office hours M-F 2-3 and by appointment
SYLLABUS
AUG 27: Opening discussion: humanitas, literature, reading, theory
29: Plautus and Terence
SEPT 1: Lucretius
3: Catullus
5: CICERO Against Verres I (Ch. 1, Attack on Misgovernment)
8: Correspondence (Ch. 2, Cicero’s Life and Letters)
10: The Second Philippic against Antony (Ch. 3, Attack on an Enemy of Freedom)
12: On Duties III (Ch. 4, A Practical Code of Behavior)
15: On Old Age (Ch. 5, Cato the Elder on Old Age)
17: Caesar and Sallust; essay on Cicero due
19: VIRGIL Aeneid 1
22: Aeneid 2
24: Aeneid 3
26: Aeneid 4
29: Aeneid 5-6
OCT 1: Aeneid 7-8
3: Aeneid 9-10
6: Aeneid 11-12
8: Essay on Virgil due; discussion of essays
10: Fall Holiday
13: HORACE Epodes
15: Odes I 1-16
17: Odes I 17-38
20: Odes II 1-10
22: Odes II 11-20
24: Odes III 1-15
27: Odes III 16-30
29: Centennial Hymn, Odes IV 1-5
31: Odes IV 6-15
NOV 3: Tibullus; essay on Horace due
5: Propertius and Ovid
7: Livy
10: Seneca and Petronius
12: Martial and Juvenal
14: TACITUS Part One, 1-3
17: Part One, 4-6
19: Part One, 7-8
21: Part Two, 9-10
24: Part Two, 11-12
Thanksgiving Recess
DEC 1: Part Two, 13-14
3: Part Two, 15-16
5: Augustine and beyond
9: Final Examination 2-5 PM
TEXTS:
Cicero, Selected Works, translated with an introduction by Michael Grant (Penguin)
Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam)
Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes with the Centennial Hymn, translated, with notes, by W. G. Shepherd (Penguin)
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, translated with an introduction by Michael Grant (Penguin)
For the other authors, short sample texts will be distributed in xerox (and on the Web page if possible).
GRADING:
Your grade for the course will be based on three factors in roughly equal proportion:
(1) the quality and quantity of your contribution to class discussion, including any brief essays assigned to initiate discussion;
(2) the three essays, each of approx. 4000 words; and
(3) the final examination, which will consist of essays on specific passages drawn from the course reading and general essays applying to all
the authors.
ON RESERVE:
Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History, 1994
Michael Grant, Roman Literature, 1954
Latin Literature, ed. E. J. Kenney and W. V. Clausen , 1982 (Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. II)
R. M. Ogilvie, Roman Literature and Society, 1980
Kenneth Quinn, Texts and Contexts: The Roman Writers and Their Audience, 1979
J. C. Rolfe, Cicero and His Influence. New York 1963
Gordon Williams, The Nature of Roman Poetry, 1970
IN REFERENCE STACKS:
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. 1996
SOME ADDITIONAL RECENT BOOKS ON THE MAJOR AUTHORS:
Dorey, T. A. Cicero. London 1965.
Furmann, Manfred. Cicero and the Roman Republic. Oxford 1992.
MacKendrick, Paul L. The Philosophical Books of Cicero. New York 1989.
_________________. The Speeches of Cicero: Context, Law, Rhetoric. London 1995.
Rawson, Elizabeth. Cicero: a Portrait. London 1975.
Wiedemann, Thomas. Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic. London 1994.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Virgil’s Aeneid. New York 1987.
Cairns, Francis. Virgil’s Augustan Epic. Cambridge 1989.
Gransden, K. W. Virgil, the Aeneid. Cambridge 1990.
Slavitt, David R. Virgil. Yale 1992.
Williams, Gordon W. Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid. Yale 1983.
Armstrong, David. Horace. Yale 1989.
Costa, C. D. N. Horace. London 1973.
Porter, David H. Horace’s Poetic Journey: a Reading of Odes 1-3. Princeton 1987.
Putnam, Michael C. J. Artifices of eternity: Horace’s Fourth Book of Odes. Cornell 1986.
Reckford, K. J. Horace. New York 1969.
Santirocco, Matthew S. Unity and Design in Horace’s Odes. Chapel Hill 1986.
Witke, Charles. Horace’s Roman Odes: a Critical Examination. Leiden 1983.
Benario, Herbert W. An Introduction to Tacitus. Athens GA 1975.
Dorey, T. A., ed. Tacitus. New York 1969.
Dudley, Donald R. The World of Tacitus. Boston 1968.
Martin, Ronald. Tacitus. Berkeley 1981.