LATN 765 Horace

Jim O'Hara Spring 2008 syllabus

1. TH Jan 10 intro sight:

2. T Jan 15 Read in Latin Epodes 1, 9, 11, 16, read others in English (maybe Loeb for glancing at Latin?)

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

Read Camb. Comp. to Horace pp. 7-89 (chapters by Nisbet, Harrison, Tarrant, Thomas, Lowrie) (background; not to dicuss; read by Th at least)

3. Th Jan 17 Odes 1.1-12

Master all meters in 1-12 that will recur, esp first lines.

Read in English Santirocco book 1986, 14-41; Edmunds book 1992, 43-59, Lyne 1995 book 68-97

4. T Jan 22 Odes 1.13-23

Read Fraenkel, Horace 154-58 (on 1.14) (plus 159 n. 2)

Lowrie, A Parade of Lyric Predecessors: Horace C. 1.12-1.18, Phoenix 49 (1995) 33-48

Sometime: Do some personal review on Age of Augustus? See here, but print is still usually better.

Sometime: Do Greek lyric on reading list this term?

5. Th Jan 24 Odes 1.24-39 (N&H 2: Andy)

Read Lowrie, Horace’s Narrative Odes 138-86 (esp. on 1.37, and on 2.1 which we’ll read for next time)

Lyne, “Horace Odes Book 1 and the Alexandrian Edition of Alcaeus,” in Collected Papers 293-313

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Epodes, Odes 1, due Friday noon

6. T Jan 29 Odes 2.1-10

Review Lowrie on 2.1, and read Martindale, Latin poetry and the judgement of taste 108-37 (last part is on Odes 2.7)

mini-presentation by Sarah L. on 2.4

7. Th Jan 31 Odes 2.11-20

Read Davis, Polyhymnia 78-89 on Odes 2.13.

mini-presentation by Serena on 2.19

8. T Feb 5 first class on Odes 3.1-6

Read Oliensis, Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority 102-53 (esp. on Roman Odes), Lowrie 1997, 224-265

mini-presentation by one student on each poem

9.Th Feb 7 second class on Odes 3.1-6

mini-presentation by one student on each poem continues

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz on Odes 2.1-3.6 ((new detail)) due Friday noon

10. T Feb 12 Odes 3.7-20

Read Lyne, Horace: Behind the Public Poetry 158-83 (includes 3.7, 3.14 as well as Roman Odes)

mini-presentation by Tripp on one poem

11. Th Feb 14 Odes 3.21-30

mini-presentation by Sarah M-E on one poem

12. T Feb 19 Odes 4.1-8

mini-presentation from Putnam on 4 by one student on one poem each

13. Th Feb 21 Odes 4.9-15

mini-presentation from Putnam on 4 by one student on one poem each

"take-home" e-mail translation quiz due ~~Friday noon~~ Monday midnight

14. T Feb 26 new: finish Odes 4

Discuss Odes 4 and Odes 1-4; discuss plans for after Spring Break.

Discuss Teaching Odes?

15. Th Feb 28 Sat. 1.1-3

Read Muecke in Camb Comp to Horace

In Muecke, pay attention to Rudd (SM), Anderson (TY), DuQuesnay (SW), Friedenberg (TG), Zetzel (SL), Oliensis (AS)

T Mar 4 Sat. 1.4-7

Read book reviews on satire.

Th March 6 Sat 1.8-10

Read D. Kennedy, “’Augustan’ and ‘Anti-Augustan’…” (1992)

Spring Break

17. T Mar 18

all read: Alessandro Barchiesi “Carmina: Odes and Carmen Saeculare,” in Camp. Comp. Horace

all read (now or soon—lower priority than other parts of assignment): pack of reviews on Odes etc.

new Latin: Carm. Saec. (76) Satire 2.1 (86)

10 minute-report by EZD: Fowler, Don P., (1995): "Horace and the Aesthetics of Politics, " in: S.J. Harrison Homage to Horace. A Bimillenary Celebration 1995, 248-266.
10 minute report by TG: Feeney, Denis, "Horace and the Greek Lyric Poets" in Rudd, ed. Horace 2000 41-63
10 minute report by TY: Zetzel, James, "Dreaming about Quirinus: Horace's Satires and the development of Augustan poetry," Horace, Traditions and Contexts 38-52
10 minute-report by SL: Shumate, Nancy (2005): "Gender and Nationalism in Horace’s ‘Roman’ Odes, " Helios 32, 81-107.
10 minute report: by SW Sutherland, E., "Writing (on) Bodies: Lyric Discourse and the Production of Gender in Horace's Odes 1.13," CP 100 (2005) 52-82
10 minute report by AS: Gold, Barbara K. "Openings in Horace's Satires and Odes: Poet, Patron, and Audience," YClS 29 (1992) 161-186
10 minute report by SME: Bleisch, Pamela R. "Silence is Golden: Simonides, Callimachus, and Augustan Panegyric at the Close of Horace, Carm. 3, 2" QUCC 68.2 (2001) 21-40

Wed March 19: 5-page paper due

18. Th March 20: What is lyric?

all read: Lowrie book 19-48

all read: Johnson, The Idea of Lyric 1-24, 96-145

all read Miller, Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness 1-8 (and endnotes), 120-77 (and endnotes)

new Latin: Satire 2.5 (110), all Sat. 2 in English

Quiz on Sat. 1.1-10, 2.1 and 2.5 due Friday noon

19. T Mar 25

Review Odes 1.1-20;

read West, little comm. on 1.4

Sutherland book 17-50, Lowrie book 51-55, G. Davis 1-10, 145-88 (esp. on carpe diem) (optional: 189-242 or 243-47)

report on Odes 1.4; reporter: Tripp

new Latin: Epist. 1.1, 1.2 (= 179 lines)

20. Th March 27

Review Odes 1.21-38; read

West, little comm. on 1.23 and 25

Oliensis, “Erotics and gender” in Camp Comp.

Thomas, Virgil & the Augustan Reception 55-74 (H&V as friends; a bit on 1.24, also 1.3)

report on Odes 1.23 and/or 25; reporter: Serena

new Latin: Epist. 1. 4, 13, 19, 20 (= 103 lines); all Epist. 1 in English

21. T Apr 1

West, little comm. on 2.15

Sutherland 75-130, Bowditch book 1-29, 64-95

Feeney, rev. of Peter White, Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome. Cambridge, MA, 1993. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1994/94.06.16.html

report on Odes 2.15; reporter: Andy

new Latin: Epist. 2.1.1-167

optional: Feeney, "Una Cum Scriptore Meo: poetry, Principate and the traditions of literary history in the Epistle to Augustus, " Horace, Traditions and Contexts 172-187 (Davis Lib. will let you read this online)

22. Th Apr 3

Review Roman Odes; read Frankel book 260-88, Fowler in Horace Made New esp on Fraenkel, Reckford book 70-84, Ross, Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry131 –62

Random note: Pindar Pythian 1, discussed by Fraenkel as background for H., is on the reading list.

report on Odes 3.2; reporter: Sarah M.

new Latin: Epist. 2.1.168-270

optional: Barchiesi, "Teaching Augustus through Allusion," in Speaking Volumes: Narrative and intertext in Ovid and other Latin poets

Quiz on portions of Epistles 1 and 2 due Friday noon

23. T Apr 8

Review Odes 3.7-30

Read little comms. of both West and G. Williams on Odes 3.12.

report on Odes 3.12; reporter: Sarah L.

new Latin: Epist. 2.2 (=216 lines)

24. Th Apr 10

Review Satires 1

Read Freudenburg, The Walking Muse 185-235

new Latin: Ars Poetica 1.1-107

optional: Andrew Laird, "The Ars Poetica, " Camb. Comp. Horace.

report on Satire 1.5: Ted

25. T Apr 15

Review Epodes in English and read in Latin Epodes 8 and 12 (46 lines, not on quiz)

Read John Henderson 'Suck it and See (Horace Epode 8)' in Writing down Rome: satire, comedy, and other offences in Latin poetry

Oliensis book, 64-77 (or 64-101)

new Latin: Ars Poetica 108-305

report on Epodes: Erika

26. Th Apr 17

Brief discussion of teaching: everyone prepare (and copy for the class) a rough syllabus for an advanced undergrad Latin course on Horace: list Latin readings (for each week if not each class) and at least five items of secondary lit. you think are important and would work for undergrads. Note: you can work together on this a little if you wish, or at least consult each other.

Report on terms papers #1______(this person can bring undergrad syllabus next week if nec.)