LATN 284: The Age of Augustus LATN 341: Vergil, Aeneid Spring Semester 2018 Monday - Wednesday - Friday 10:25am-11:15am Crown Center 572 Dr. Jacqueline Long

• Vergil, Aeneid, Books I-XII
  • online: J. B. Greenough, ed. (Boston: Ginn & Co. 1900), available from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University - cross-linked with study-tools including a historical lexicon, a detailed commentary, and an overview of Latin syntax
  • online: J. B. Greenough, ed. (Boston: Ginn & Co. 1900), available from The Latin Library - text only, links by the book
  • print: P. Vergili Maronis Opera, R. A. B. Mynors, ed. Oxford: Clarendon 1969 and rpt.) - considered the standard edition - text only
  • online: The Vergil Project, a collaborative project supported by the University of Pennsylvania - text adapted from F. A. Hirzel's 1900 Oxford Classical text (the one superseded by Mynors), hyperlinked with word-identification, concordance, commentaries, and translations)
• Fundamental Resources
  • online: Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, eds., A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1879 & rpt.
  • print: C. G. W. Glare, ed., Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1968-82, rpt. corr. 1996, 2nd edn. 2012
  • online: J. B. Greenough et al., eds., Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, Boston: Ginn & Company 1903; also through Dickinson College Commentaries
• Translation (for reading those portions of the text you don't read in Latin)
  • online: John Dryden, tr. (1697), available from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
  • print: Robert Fagles, tr. (Penguin Group 2006)

Provisional Order of Proceeding

• Latin reading assignments will be determined by the class's progress through target zones of the text as follows. We will aim to build strong reading skills that will underpin critical inquiry into the concerns of the epic, the author, and his world. We will reevaluate the targets if it proves appropriate. Discussion will encompass language, poetics, literary forms and traditions, historical and cultural backgrounds, and all operations of the text as a communicative and artistic medium.
• Members of the seminar have the duty to prepare Latin reading assignments before the class-meeting in which those passages will be discussed: the ideal for which to strive is to be ready to look at the Latin text and understand not only what it is saying, but also how the Latin works so as to make it say what it says. Not every passage will yield all that understanding to every reader equally easily, but persist in your best efforts. It will get more cooperative as you work through. Endeavor to identify any challenges with which the more intractable passages resist you: by working together on trouble-spots, everyone will grow in understanding.
  Nota bene! 284 students and 341 students have different reading assignments in the Latin text.
  284 students please read in Latin your portion of the 341 students' Latin assignments, then read the balance in English, so that the whole seminar will be able to partake in and appreciate discussion.

  284 students and 341 students, please read the balance of the whole Book of the Aeneid, connecting around the targeted sections you read in Latin, keeping up with daily assignments so we can all discuss the text-to-date in terms of its content.

  Note that different translations may print line-numbers according to what they do with their own English: we'll work in terms of the Latin for the sake of stability and clarity.

• Written homework, assigned from time to time as it seems likely to help build strengths, will be due in hand, at the start of the class period, on the days for which it is assigned.
• Short quizzes check in on nuts and bolts of the Latin.
• Article-reports will be assigned to members of the seminar registered at 341-level and 284-level variously in teams, so that they may critically examine published scholarship relating to Vergil and the Aeneid and lead thoughtful seminar discussion taking the inquiry further.
• Prepared exercises in literary translation give scope to develop ideas about what the Latin is saying, how, and why it matters; they are due in hand, at the start of the class period, on the days for which they are assigned.
• 341 students will develop research projects investigating selected aspects of the Aeneid in light of their own critical examination of the text and scholarly investigations. Reports on work-in-progress will be presented to the seminar in the second half of the semester.

Revised 11 January 2018 by jlong1@luc.edu
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