LATN 512 (112) READINGS IN LATIN LITERATURE
OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE

Jim O'Hara Spring 2007 partial syllabus           course home page

TH Jan 12 intro sight:

Res Gestae, Ecl 1.1-5, 6.1-4 (plus Callim. Aetia prologue), Livy Praef., Horace Odes 3.1.1-4 (plus Callim. Epig. 28), Amores 1.1.1-4 Met 1.1-4, Aen 4.1-4

T Jan 17  Ovid Metamorphoses 1.1-239, 240-415

Read in English: Read OCD (3rd ed) on Ovid, Augustus (now avail. online through Davis!; go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/, then Past Masters, then OCD)

Read quickly the outline of the years 133 to 31 (the Gracchi to Actium) by Knox at http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/romanrev (39 "web" pp.; hard to print)

Th Jan 19 Ovid Metamorphoses 1.240-415

Read Fagan's Introductory essay on Augustus on web at http://www.roman-emperors.org/auggie.htm

Mini-report: Ovid's love elegy

T Jan 23 Ovid Metamorphoses 1.416-587

Read Myers, "The Metamorphosis of a Poet: Recent Work on Ovid" JRS 89 (1999) 190-204 (JSTOR)

Read Nicoll, "Cupid, Apollo, and Daphne (Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452ff.)," CQ 30 (1980) 174-82

Mini-report 2: Ovid¹s exile poetry

Th Jan 25 Ovid Metamorphoses 1.588-779

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Met. 1, due Friday noon

T Jan 30 Vergil, Eclogues 1-4

Read OCD (3rd ed) on Vergil (they say Virgil), esp. on Eclogues

Read Breed, "Imitations of Originality: Theocritus and Lucretius at the Start of the Eclogues," Vergilius 46 (2000) 3-20

Read on Ecl. 4, Petrini, The Child and the hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil pp.111-21

Th Feb 1 Vergil, Eclogues 5-10

Read in English John Porter's notes on the years 44-31 at http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/Octavian.html

Mini-report: Cornelius Gallus

T Feb 6Vergil, Georgics 1.1-310

Read OCD (3rd ed) on Vergil, esp. on Georgics

Read Hardie, Virgil (G&R new surveys in the Classics), chapter on Georgics (photocopy on reserve)

Th Feb 8 Vergil, Georgics 1. 311-514

Read in English: all of Georgics, esp. Book 4
Read Monica Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things, 1-17 (intro) and 58-88 (part only of chapter 3) (photocopy on reserve)

Mini-report: M. Terentius Varro

Classics Ph.D. student option: "take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Eclogues and Georgics, due Friday noon

T Feb 13  Read Osgood, Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire, pp. 62-107         (photocopy on reserve); note especially his treatment of the "Laudatio Turiae".
                Read Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus. pp.186-238 (photocopy on reserve); again note especially her treatment of the "Laudatio Turiae"
                Read J. Hallett, Perusinae glandes and the changing Image of Augustus, AJAH, 2, 1977, 151-171(on reserve)

Th Feb 15 TBA

T Feb 20: Classics Ph.D. student option: read Augustus Res Gestae (10 pp., but if stressed skip/skim 15-24, 30-33)
          Other students: read Res Gestae either in Latin or in English, and study for
 translation exam on Ovid and Vergil TUES FEB 20 TBA (no need to read Res Gestae)

Th Feb 22 Livy, Preface and 1.1-8

Read OCD (3rd ed) on Livy

Read Ogilvie's Intro.

Mini-report: Early Roman History

T Feb 27 Livy 1.9-21

Read Miles, Livy: Reconstructing Early Rome, pp. 137-78

Th March 1 Livy 1.22-31

Mini-report: Asinius Pollio

T Mar 6 Livy 1.32-48

ReadKonstan, "Narrative and Ideology in Livy Book 1," ClAnt 5 (1986) 198-215

Mini-report: Livy 21 and 22

Th March 8 Livy 1.49-60

Read also in English (or Latin!), Book 2 section 1 (1 page) and all of Book 5
Read  Joshel, "The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia" pp. 112-130 in Richlin, (ed) Pornography and Representation....
Optional: Read in English (or Latin!) the story of Verginia in Livy 3.44ff.

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Livy, preferably due Friday noon, but an extension until Monday noon is possible

Spring Break

T Mar 20
Horace Odes 1.1-1.12

Read OCD (3rd ed) on Horace
Read in English Lyne, Horace: Behind the Public Poetry 68-97

Mini-report: Propertius
Th March 22 Odes 1.13-1.19
             Read Fraenkel, Horace 154-58 (on 1.14) (plus 159 n. 2)

T Mar 27 Odes 1.20-1.38, 2.1

Mini-report: Horace¹s Satires

Read Lowrie, Horace’s Narrative Odes 138-86 (esp. on 1.38, 2.1)

Th March 29, Odes 3.1-3.6
            Read in English Oliensis, Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority 102-53 (esp. on Roman Odes)

T Apr 3   Odes 3.7-3.20
Read D. Kennedy, “’Augustan’ and ‘Anti-Augustan’: reflections on terms of reference,” pp. 26-58 in A. Powell ed., Roman poetry and propaganda in the age of Augustus, London (1992)

Th Apr 5 Odes 3.21-3.30

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Horace, due Friday noon

T Apr 10 Vergil, Aeneid 4.1-218
    Read Hardie, Virgil (G&R new surveys in the Classics), chapter on Aeneid
    Read Clausen, Virgil's Aeneid: Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology pp. 75-115 "Dido and Aeneas"
use draft of commentary on Aeneid 4 (handout)

Th Apr 12 Vergil, Aeneid 4.219-392
Read Thomas, Virgil and the Augustan Reception, pp. 154-89 "Dido and her Translators"

Mini-report: Tibullus

F Apr 13 : writing assignments due except for Apr 12 and Apr 17 reports (those are due a week after the reports)
T Apr 17 Aeneid 4.393-552
Read Conte, The Rhetoric of Imitation, pp. 141-84 "Virgil's Aeneid: Toward an Interpretation"

Mini-report??

Th Apr 19 Aeneid 4.553-705
Read Perkell, "Ambiguity and Irony: the Last Resort"

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Aeneid, due Friday noon

Monday April 23: talk on Metamorphoses by Ovid scholar Sara Myers, prob. 5 p.m.

T Apr 24: Read Ovid Met 13-15 in English or Latin (read 14 before Monday talk)

Th Apr 26 Read in Latin Ovid Met. 15.745-87

Cumulative final exam: Thu. May 3 4:00 P.M.(!)  translation and questions about passages