LATN 281/332: Sallust Spring Semester 2008

Our work together will pursue three main aims (plus the fourth, of having fun with them):

• Inquiring and studying, to gain knowledge of Sallust's language, his literary and historical context, his historiographical techniques, and the subjects he addressed in his monographs of Roman crisis, the Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum
• Analyzing and synthesizing, to build facility in reading Latin and appreciating its communication
• Thinking critically, to investigate, generate, test, and advance theories about how Sallust used information and rhetoric to interpret Roman political culture

TTh 11:15am-12:00noon, Crown Center 579; or by appointment
Crown Center 579
773-508-3654
jlong1@luc.edu

• Required: J. T. Ramsey, ed., Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press 2007
• Required: S. A. Handford, tr., Sallust: The Jugurthine War, the Conspiracy of Catiline, Penguin Classics 1964 & rpt.
• Recommended: J. H. Allen et al., Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, Dover Books 2006; Allen & Greenough On-Line is available thanks to the Perseus Project
• Recommended: Charlton T. Lewis, ed., An Elementary Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1969 & rpt.; alternatively, Lewis & Short On-Line, is available from the Perseus Project

• Text of Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, on-line from The Latin Library. It doesn't include commentary, so it's no substitute for the required text, but it's a resource when you need a quick look at the Latin.
• Gaius Sallustius Crispus, reprinted in its entirety from Jared W. Scudder, ed., Sallust's Catiline, "Introduction," Boston: Allyn & Bacon 1900, by the UAH Society for Ancient Languages
• Substantive-hunt grid: model for analyzing Latin syntax.
• Verb-hunt grid: model for analyzing Latin syntax.

• Allen & Greenough (also a recommended text, in print) is a good reference grammar on-line. Consult its sections on forms and syntax as often as the mood strikes you - they're always worth knowing. Scroll down the Table of Contents to which this link takes you, and click on the link for each item you wish to consult. Part of the Perseus Project.
• Lewis & Short On-Line offers look-up access to a detailed reference dictionary. Type in the character string for which you wish to search (preferably, the dictionary-entry form of the word you want) and "submit query". Warning! This page was initially set up for people working with Greek, so many of its directions and responses will come to you in terms of Greek words and transliterations. Do not be alarmed! Your instructor will endeavor to help unsnarl any confusions: just ask. Another helpful part of the Perseus Project.
• Early Roman Calendar, an overview presented by Calendars through the Ages.
• Nuntii Latini offers current news briefs in Latin. Produced by FYI, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, edited by Professor Emeritus Tuomo Pekkanen and Docent Reijo Pitkäranta of Helsinki University.
• latin.wunderground.com offers weather reports in Latin. Produced by The Weather Underground, Inc..

• The Roman Constitution, reprinted in its entirety from J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge, edd., Select Orations and Letters of Cicero, "Introduction VI," Boston: Ginn and Company 1902, by the UAH Society for Ancient Languages
• Roman Oratory, reprinted in its entirety from J. B. Greenough & G. L. Kittredge, edd., Select Orations and Letters of Cicero, "Introduction II," Boston: Ginn and Company 1902, by the UAH Society for Ancient Languages
• Perseus Project: an evolving digital library for the study of the Greek and Roman worlds.
• Lacus Curtius, a treasurehouse of on-line resources for just about everything conceivably relating to Roman archaeology, compiled by Bill Thayer.

Revised 16 January 2008 by jlong1@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/