LATN 773 Lucretius: Class Reports
5. Th Sept. 7 Read
in Latin DRN 829-1117.
Report: The history of the text of Lucretius. Reporter: Ted.
Read Bailey Vol. 1 pp. 37ff, and supplement or correct it with a few
pages from Texts and Transmissions (photocopy, from me), the intro to
Smith’s Loeb, and two pages of Kenney, Comm on Book III. Tell how the
text of L. survived, what manuscripts there are now, and what we know
about the "archetype" (esp. on missing lines, etc.).
6. T Sept. 12 Read in Latin DRN 2.1-477
Close reader of 2.20-36. Reporter: Sarah. The fairly recent comm. by Fowler will be
the main source here.
7. Th Sept. 14 Read in Latin DRN 2.478-660
Close reader of 2.610-28 (Magna Mater). Reporter: Patrick
8. T Sept. 19 Read in Latin DRN 2.661-990
Report: The addressee of the De Rerum Natura. Reporter: Cameron.
Use whatever is in Clay, or basic commentaries, and read Mitsis P.
(1993) "Committing Philosophy on the Reader: Didactic Coercion and
Reader Autonomy in De Rerum Natura", MD 31: 111-28; and Conte, G. B.
(1994) "Instructions for a Sublime Reader: Form of the text and Form of
the Addressee in Lucretius' De rerum natura", chap. 1 in Genres and
readers: Lucretius, love elegy, Pliny’s Encyclopedia (Baltimore)
11. Th Sept. 28 Read in Latin DRN Read in Latin DRN
3.350-583
Report: Philodemus of Gadara. Reporter: John E.
Start with the OCD (3rd edition) article on P; then read about the
Philodemus project at the UCLA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/Philodemus/philhome.htm
--some info is a little old) (such links are on my lucretiuslinks
page). Then read Sider, Epigrams of P, Intro pp. 3-24 for background,
Clay Intro to Obbink, ed., P and Poetry, pp. 3-14 for the types of
things people are doing with P., and look over Obbink's (somewhat
difficult) chapter "How to Read Poetry about Gods" at pp. 189-209 in
the same volume. and look very briefly at Obbink's edition of De
Pietate mainly to get a sense of what it's like to work with P.
12. T Oct. 3 Read in
Latin DRN
3.584-829
Close
reader of something in
3.584-829 (maybe 642-56?) : Ted
13. Th Oct. 5 Read in Latin DRN
3.830-1094
Report: Cicero and the Epicureans.
Reporter: Fred.
Read the selections from C. in
Inwood, ed., The Epicurus Reader 47-64 (in Classics Library, on
reserve), and then for one work, the Republic, read T. Maslowski, "The
Chronology of Cicero's Anti-Epicureanism, " Eos 62 (1974) 55-78 (which
has much general info too) (xerox, from me) and Zetzel, "De Re Publica
and De Rerum Natura" in Style and Tradition: Studies... Clausen (xerox,
from me). You could also (i.e. this is optional) read more of Cic. De
Natura Deorum, De Finibus (excerpts of each are online at http://www.epicurus.info/etexts.html), De Div., etc. and for a more
challenging philosophical argument see Stokes "Cicero on Epicurean
Pleasures" in Cicero the Philosopher: Twelve Papers, ed. Powell (in
Uhlmann Classics Library)
)
18. Th Oct. 26 (probably)
Report: Lucretius as a Hellenistic Poet;
Lucretius
and Callimachus: Reporter : Sarah.
Read Kenney, "Doctus Lucretius" (make
photocopy from old bound coursepack), Brown "Lucretius
& Callimachus" (make photocopy from
old bound coursepack), and the objections
of Knox, "Lucretius on the
narrow road" (make photocopy from one on
reserve).
21. Th Nov. 9 (or possibly later)
Report: The Proems of the De Rerum Natura.
Reporter : Patrick. Read Gale "Lucretius 4.1-25 and the proems of
the De rerum Natura,"
Cox, "Lucretius and his Message: a Study in the Prologues of the De
Rerum
Natura"; also use whatever has been said about prologies in earlier
sec.
readings (including Sedley, and O'Hara proofs).
Close readings:
Fred 5.907-24
Cameron 4.1121-40
John 6.1225-46
Some other possible reports:
The Proems of the De Rerum Natura.
Lucretius as a Hellenistic Poet
The Structure of the De Rerum Natura
Diogenes of Oenoanda
report on newish articles/book