| Week I |
| Th 1/16 |
Points of Reference: Classics, Humanism, and the Roman World
- optional and less tangential than you might think:
- Barbara McManus, "The Gendering of 'The Classics'," Classics and Feminism: Gendering
the Classics, 1-19 (Twayne: 1997)
- Genevieve Lively, "Surfing the Third Wave: Postfeminism and the
Hermeneutics of Reception," in Charles Martindale and Richard F. Thomas, eds., Classics and the
Uses of Reception, 55-66 (Blackwell 2006)
- Deborah Yaffe, "The Color of Classics,"
Princeton Alumni Weekly, October
2021, 24-29
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| M 1/20 |
Martin Luther King Day: no classes (not that we were going to be meeting
on a Monday anyway) |
| Week II |
| Th 1/23 |
Didactic prose: Explaining Roman Principles
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 8-40 (pp. 8-39 1st edn.)
- Cato, On Agriculture (scroll from the linked text as needed to the assigned sections)
preface, 1-9, 14-15,
23-39,
53-60,
61, 64-68,
74-76, 83, 88,
104, 108-112,
131-132, 134,
138-141,
142-144,
156-157
(alternatively, a connected but slightly less sound version, without notes, is available
here)
- Polybius, Histories, 1.1-4 (general
preface),
6.I.2-V.18, VII.43-VIII.57 (constitutional
analysis of Rome, minus the military sections),
12.VI.27-28a (comments about historical evidence),
36.V.17 (comments about historical explanation)
- TW: enslavement, religion, economical ideology
- Centering Questions
- useful context: Philip Thibodeau, "Ancient Agronomy as a Literature of Best Practices," in
Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough, eds., Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical
World, 463-80 (OUP: 2018).
- optional tangent: Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and
Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (Harper: 2020)
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| Week III |
| Th 1/30 |
Roman Comedy
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 40-73 (pp. 40-70 1st edn.)
- Plautus, Miles Gloriosus (start from
Act I, Scene 1
and advance by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows)
- Terence, The Mother-in-Law (start from the
prologue
and advance by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows)
- TW: enslavement, sexual trafficking, sexual violence
- Centering Questions
- three optional tangents:
- Roberta Stewart, Plautus and Roman Slavery (Wiley-Blackwell 2012)
- Justin Dwyer, "The fool's errand in Terence's Hecyra," Classical Quarterly n.s.
73.1 (2023) 153-59.
- Melvin Frank et al., A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (MGM Home Entertainment 2001; original
Broadway production 1962, United Artists film 1966)
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| Week IV |
| Th 2/6 |
Oratory in Roman Political Life
- Potter 3rd. edn., pp. 74-103 (pp. 70-98 1st edn.)
- Cicero, First Oration against Catiline (in Catilinam I; start from the
first paragraph
and advance by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows)
- Cicero, For Archias (pro Archia; start from the
first paragraph
and advance by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows)
- Cicero, Brutus (scroll to numbered sections at the link),
1-25, 30-35, 44-72,
117-121,
251-258,
259-262, 283-299, 308-333
- TW: politics of exclusion and inclusion, class, gender, migration, rhetoric, violence
- Centering Questions
- optional tangents:
- Hannah Culik-Baird, "Archias the good immigrant," Rhetorica: a Journal of the History
of Rhetoric 38.4 (2020) 382-410
- David Withun, "American Archias: Cicero and 'The Souls of Black Folk'," Classical
Receptions Journal 13.3 (2021) 384-98
- Sarah E. Bond, "The Misuse of an Ancient Roman Acronym by White Nationalist Groups,"
Hyperallergic
(30 August 2018)
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| Week V |
| Th 2/13 |
Revolution, Monograph, and Memorandum
- Potter 3rd edn., pp.106-137 (pp. 100-131 1st edn.)
- Sallust, The War
with Catiline (Bellum Catilinae)
- Caesar, Civil War (click through to numbered section, then scroll)
3.58-112
- TW: politics, sedition, war
- Centering Questions
- optional tangent: Andrew Feldherr, "Sallust and the Citation of Catiline,"
American Journal of Philology 134.1 (2013) 49-66
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| Week VI |
| Th 2/20 |
Roman Philosophizing in the Republican Period
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 137-171 (pp. 132-162 1st edn.)
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Books I (all; start
here
and advance by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows, or navigate by the line-number links in the lefthand frame),
II.1-332, III.1-93, 830-1094, IV.1-25, 823-1287, V.1-234, 416-508, 925-1240, VI.1-95, 1138-1286
(The same translation is also available at links from The
Internet Classics Archive, but without line numbers; also some books break off a section or
two from the end. A different translation is available by links at
Poetry in Translation:
Lucretius.)
- Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, (scroll to numbered sections or navigate by these links) Books
I.1-10,
16-25,
36-44,
II.1-5,
17-25,
51-53,
61-67,
III.1-5,
8-11,
26-40
- TW: religion, sex
- Centering Questions
- optional tangents:
- Brooke Holmes, "The Poetics of Anthropogony: Men, Women, and Children in Lucretius, Book Five,"
EuGeStA 4 (2014)
135-174
- Peter Kelly, "Tears and the Leaky Vessel: Permeable and Fluid Bodies in Ovid and Lucretius," in
Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence M. V. Totelin, eds., Bodily Fluids in Antiquity,
259-271 (Abingdon, Oxon, and New York, NY: Routledge 2021)
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| Week VII |
| Th 2/27 |
Lyric and Bucolic
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 171-207 (pp. 162-194 1st edn.)
- Catullus, 1-60
(click to individual numbered short poems from the link, or scroll)
- Vergil, Eclogues
1-10 (click to individual numbered poems from link, or scroll)
- Horace, Odes, Book I,
1-38 (click to individual numbered short poems from the link, or scroll)
- TW: poetry, poverty, sexualities, social stratification, violence
- Centering Questions
- Humanism Essay pitches due today
- optional semitangent: Departures,
Ancient Exchanges fall 2020, University of Iowa; particularly the items
"Catullus
and his Poet Friends," tr. A. J. Woodman;
"Sex and
Satire," tr. Susan McLean;
"Catullus in
Sonnets," tr. Anna Jackson; and Katherine Wasdin,
"In
the Classroom: Teaching Catullus in Translation."
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| Week VIII |
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| Week IX |
| Th 3/13 |
Elegy and Heritage
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 210-242 (pp. 196-226 1st edn.)
- Livy, From the Foundation of the City (ab Urbe condita),
Preface
and Book I (navigate to specific chapters by the sidebar links, or proceed by arrows sequentially)
- Sulpicia, Poems 1-6
- Propertius, (navigate to individual numbered poems by link or scroll)
Book I.1-10,
20-22, Book IV.1-2, 4, 7, 9
- Ovid, Amores, Book
I (Epigram and poems 1-15: navigate to individual numbered poems by link or scroll);
Fasti, (navigate to sections identified by date via links, or scroll)
Book II, 15-21
February (Lupercalia, Quirinus's Day, Feralia),
Book III, Introduction,
1 March (Kalends), 14-15 March (Equirria, Ides)
- TW: cultural heritage, poetry, sexuality, transgressiveness
- Centering Questions
- optional tangents:
- Joerg Ruepke, "Grasping urbanity: Propertius' Book 4 and urban religion of the Augustan period,"
Religion in the Roman Empire 6.3 (2020) 288-309
- Matthew Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, eds., Rome,
Empire of Plunder: the Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge UP: 2018)
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| Week X |
| Th 3/20 |
Mythological Epic in Augustan Rome
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 243-278 (pp. 226-257 1st edn.)
- Vergil, Aeneid, Books I.1-417,
494-519, 613-694;
II.1-297, 486-558, 624-804;
IV.90-172, 279-449, 584-705;
VII.1-147, 286-539, 783-817;
VIII.102-453, 585-731;
XII.113-265, 311-499, 593-952
(the text marks off subsections, with line-numbers, you can navigate to by the links, but the subtitles are
completely inauthentic; if any one work is an irreplaceable touchstone of Roman culture, it is the
Aeneid, so it would be ideal to read the whole epic some day when you have the chance)
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books I,
XIV.581-851,
XV.622-745 (click through links to subsections
identified by line-numbers and, again, inauthentic subtitles)
- TW: sexuality, violence, myths of national destiny
- Centering Questions
- optional tangents:
- Shelley Haley, "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical
Studies," in Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza, eds., Prejudice and Christian
Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies, 27-49 (Fortress
Press 2009)
- Sam Abgabu, "Whose Aeneid? Imperialism, Fascism, and the Politics of Reception,"
Blog,
Society for Classical Studies (29 November 2021)
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| Week XI |
| Th 3/27 |
Roman Satire: Formal Verse and Menippean
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 278-313 (pp. 257-290 1st edn.)
- Horace, Satires, Book
I.1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
(or navigate by clicking "next" for the next satire; the subtitles are inauthentic)
- Seneca, Apocolocyntosis
- Juvenal, Satires 1
3,
4,
10
(or navigate by clicking "next" for the next satire; the subtitles are inauthentic)
- TW: disability, religion, social stratification
- Centering Questions
- optional, consciously "uncomfortable" tangent: Sarah Bond and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, "Foul and
Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in
Roman Satire," in Christian Laes, ed., Disability in Antiquity 222-232 (Routledge 2017)
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| Week XII |
| Th 4/3 |
The Aesthetics of Excess: Neronian Literature
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 314-333 (pp. 290-309 1st edn.)
- Petronius, Satyricon, chapters
5 -
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10
as divided in this translation (XXVI-LXXVIII; or navigate by clicking "next")
- Seneca, Troades
- Lucan, Civil War (Pharsalia), Books I,
VII.647-872,
IX.411-1108 (alternatively, start
here and
navigate by the line-number links in the lefthand frame or by clicking the rightward-pointing arrows)
- TW: enslavement, exploitation, social stratification, war
- Centering Questions
- optional tangent:
James McNamara, "The Monstrosity of Cato in Lucan's Civil War," in Giulia Maria Chesi and
Francesca Spiegel, eds., 167-173 Classical Literature and Posthumanism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
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| Week XIII |
| Th 4/10 |
History and Lives
- Potter 3rd edn., pp. 333-357 (pp. 309-334 1st edn.)
- Tacitus, Annals Book I (divided into five files at this website:
I.1-15,
I.16-30,
I.31-54,
I.55-71,
I.72-81)
- Suetonius, Life of Augustus
(subtitles are inauthentic)
- TW: politics, social stratification, violence
- Centering Questions
- optional tangents:
- Shreyaa Bhatt, "Exiled in Rome: the Writing of Other Spaces in Tacitus's
Annales," in William Fitzgerald and Efrossini Spentzou, eds., The Production of Space in
Latin Literature, 215-234 (Oxford UP 2018)
- Jannis F. Koltermann, "The uncanny afterlives of Augustus: reading across Suetonius' Lives
of the Caesars," Classical Quarterly n.s. 73.1 (2023) 328-43
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| Week XIV |
| Th 4:15pm - M 4:00pm
4/17-21 |
Easter Break: No classes (pursuant to the
University Calendar,
classes starting later than 4:15pm Thursday 4/17 are canceled, and classes starting 4:00pm and later
Monday 4/21 meet as scheduled)
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| Week XV |
| Th 4/24 |
Oral Demonstration
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| Exam Week |
| W 4/30 |
Study Day: no exams till 4:15 PM
|
Th 5/1
4:15pm-6:15pm |
Final examination: see Loyola's
Final
Exam Schedule.
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