Loyola University Chicago

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

Dido and Aeneas, Vatican Vergil ms, c 400, Rome


Texts - always bring to class with you a copy of the Latin text for the assigned reading of the day


Provisional Order of Proceeding

All details of the schedule for this class are subject to the University's Academic Calendars and Schedules.
Aeneid 1.1-156, 223-296, 441-519, 643-756
M 1/15 Martin Luther King Day: No classes
W 1/17
  • Introduction.
F 1/19
  • Reading assignment within Book I (as targeted)
  • overview assignment (everyone): Jasper Griffin, "Life and times: the unity of Virgil's work," Ch. 1 of Virgil, 1-19 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 1986).
M 1/22
  • Reading assignment within Book I (as targeted)
W 1/24
  • Reading assignment within Book I (as targeted)
  • Article report: Deborah Beck, "The First Simile of the Aeneid," Vergilius 60 (2014) 67-83.
Aeneid 2.1-56, 199-297, 469-729, 771-804
F 1/26
  • Reading assignment within Book II (as targeted)
M 1/29
  • Reading assignment within Book II (as targeted)
  • Article report: Randall T. Ganiban, "The dolus and Glory of Ulysses in Aeneid 2," Materiale e discussioni per l'analis dei testi classici 61, Callida Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in Honor of R. Elaine Fantham (2009) 57-70.
  • 341 students: start considering topics and resources for your Research Project!
W 1/31
  • Reading assignment within Book II (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
Aeneid 3.1-68, 147-355, 548-718
F 2/2
  • Reading assignment within Book III (as targeted)
M 2/5
  • Reading assignment within Book III (as targeted)
W 2/7
  • Reading assignment within Book III (as targeted)
Aeneid 4.1-128, 160-197, 296-436, 522-705
F 2/9
  • Reading assignment within Book IV (as targeted)
M 2/12
  • Reading assignment within Book IV (as targeted)
  • Article report: Elena Giusti, "My Enemy's Enemy is My Enemy: Virgil's Illogical Use of metus hostilis," in Philip Hardie, ed., Augustan Poetry and the Irrational, 37-55 (Oxford University Press 2016).
W 2/14
  • Reading assignment within Book IV (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
F 2/16
  • Reading assignment within Book IV (as targeted)
  • 341 students: focus your consideration of topics and resources for your Research Project!
Aeneid 5.42-103, 362-679, 827-871
M 2/19
  • Reading assignment within Book V (as targeted)
  • Short but wonderfully creative literary translation due
W 2/21
  • Reading assignment within Book V (as targeted)
F 2/23
  • Reading assignment within Book V (as targeted)
  • Article report: James Uden, "The Smile of Aeneas," Transactions of the American Philological Association 144 (2014) 71-96.
Aeneid 6.1-97, 264-383, 417-476, 679-901
M 2/26
  • Reading assignment within Book VI (as targeted)
  • 341 students: proposals for your Research Project due
W 2/28
  • Reading assignment within Book VI (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
F 3/2
  • Reading assignment within Book VI (as targeted)
  • Article report: Nandini B. Pandey, "Reading Rome from the Farther Shore: Aeneid 6 in the Augustan Urban Landscape," Vergilius 60 (2014) 85-116.
M 3/5-Sa 3/10 Mid-semester Break: No classes.
M 3/12
  • Reading assignment within Book VI (as targeted)
Aeneid 7.1-134, 286-571
W 3/14
  • Reading assignment within Book VII (as targeted)
F 3/16
  • Reading assignment within Book VII (as targeted)
M 3/19
  • Reading assignment within Book VII (as targeted)
  • Article report part I: David Quint, "Culture and Nature in Book 8 of the Aeneid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 75 (2015) 9-47: specifically pp.9-21.
Aeneid 8.184-453, 608-731
W 3/21
  • Reading assignment within Book VIII (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
F 3/23
  • Reading assignment within Book VIII (as targeted)
  • Article report part II: David Quint, "Culture and Nature in Book 8 of the Aeneid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 75 (2015) 9-47: specifically pp.21-35.
M 3/26
  • Reading assignment within Book VIII (as targeted)
  • Article report part III: David Quint, "Culture and Nature in Book 8 of the Aeneid," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 75 (2015) 9-47: specifically pp.35-47.
Aeneid 9.168-502, 590-671
W 3/28
  • Reading assignment within Book IX (as targeted)
4:15pm Th 3/29 - 4:15pm M 4/2 Easter Holiday: No classes
W 4/4
  • Reading assignment within Book IX (as targeted)
F 4/6
  • Reading assignment within Book IX (as targeted)
Aeneid 10.362-542, 689-908
M 4/9
  • Reading assignment within Book X (as targeted)
  • Short but wonderfully creative literary translation due
W 4/11
  • Reading assignment within Book X (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
F 4/13
  • Reading assignment within Book X (as targeted)
Aeneid 11.1-99, 532-915
M 4/16
  • Reading assignment within Book XI (as targeted)
W 4/18
  • Reading assignment within Book XI (as targeted)
F 4/20
  • Reading assignment within Book XI (as targeted)
Aeneid 12.1-80, 134-160, 614-952
M 4/23
  • Reading assignment within Book XII (as targeted)
W 4/25
  • Reading assignment within Book XII (as targeted)
  • Short quiz
F 4/27
  • Reading assignment within Book XII (as targeted)
  • 341 students: finished paper for your Research Project due.
M 4/30
9:00am-11:00am
Final Latin quiz. Conformed with Loyola's Final Exam Schedule.

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