All assignments listed below should be completed by the date on which they’re listed. So, for example, you should come to class on Monday, 9/9, having read lines 1-514 of Plautus’ Casina.
“Hackett” means our primary textbook (Francese and Smith, eds., Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources, Hackett 2014). Other physical texts will be referenced by the author’s (/authors’) last name(s). Some reading assignments will be found online – a link will be provided.
| Week | Date | Assignments | Module |
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| 1 | W 9/4 | Come to class! | Introduction: Women and Men in Roman Literature and Society |
| F 9/6 |
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| 2 | M 9/9 | Plautus Casina 1-514 | The Origins of Roman Literature and Plautus' Casina |
| W 9/11 | Plautus Casina 515-1018 | ||
| F 9/13 | Cicero In Defense of Archias (Hackett, pp. 34-43) QUIZ 1 |
Cicero, A Novus Homo, and the Cursus Honorum | |
| 3 | M 9/16 | Cicero Letters 5-8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18 (Hackett, pp. 43-44, 53-57, 59-65, 67-69) | |
| W 9/18 | Cicero In Catilinam 1 | ||
| F 9/20 |
QUIZ 2 |
Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 1: novum libellum and the Female Perspective | |
| 4 | M 9/23 | Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 2: Latin Love Elegy and the Puella as Domina | |
| W 9/25 |
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Elegiac and Nugatory Poetry 3: Republican Odes and Imperial Epigrams | |
| F 9/27 | Catch Up QUIZ 3 |
n/a | |
| 5 | M 9/30 | Livy preface, 1.1-9 (Hackett, pp. 143-152) | Livy 1: The Aims of Livian Historiography and the Foundation of Rome |
| W 10/2 | Livy 1.34-35, 39-41, 46-49, 55-60 (Hackett, pp. 162-163, 165-167, 171-174, 178-183) | Livy 2: The Tarquins, Lucretia, and the End of the Monarchy | |
| F 10/4 | Augustus, The Accomplishments of the Deified Augustus (Hackett, pp. 14-22) QUIZ 4 |
Augustus: pater patriae | |
| 6 | M 10/7 | Vergil Aeneid Books 1-4 (Ruden) | Aeneid 1: The Exile and the Queen |
| W 10/9 | Vergil Aeneid Books 5-8 (Ruden) | Aeneid 2: From Carthage to Italy | |
| F 10/11 | Vergil Aeneid Books 9-12 (Ruden) QUIZ 5 |
Aeneid 3: A Roman Iliad | |
| FALL BREAK | |||
| 7 | M 10/21 | Aeneid catch-up | Aeneid |
| W 10/23 | Aeneid catch-up | Aeneid | |
| F 10/25 | Aeneid catch-up QUIZ 6 |
Aeneid | |
| 8 | M 10/28 | Augustus, The Accomplishments of the Deified Augustus (Hackett, pp. 14-22) | Augustus: pater patriae |
| W 10/30 |
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Non-Epic Hexameter: Satire from Lucilius to Juvenal | |
| F 11/1 | Satire catch-up QUIZ 7 |
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| 9 | M 11/4 | Ovid Metamorphoses Books 1-5 (Humphries/Reed) | Ovid 1: ab origine mundi |
| W 11/6 | Ovid Met. 1-5 continued | ||
| F 11/8 | Ovid Metamorphoses Books 6-9 (Humphries/Reed)
COMPLETE QUIZ #8 HERE Watch the following two parts of the lecture: |
Ovid 2: From Divine Punishments to Human Horrors | |
| 10 | M 11/11 | Ovid Met. 6-9 continued | |
| W 11/13 | Ovid Metamorphoses Books 10-15 (Humphries/Reed) | Ovid 3: ad mea tempora | |
| F 11/15 | Ovid Met. 10-15 continued QUIZ #9 |
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| 11 | M 11/18 |
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Roman Philosophy: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Cynicism |
| W 11/20 | Tacitus Agricola 1-9, 18-46 | Imperial Historiography: Tacitus and How to Survive a Tyrant | |
| F 11/22 | Tacitus Annals 1.1 (prologue), 4.32-35 (digression and Cremutius Cordus), 15.38-44 (the Great Fire and persecution of the Christians) QUIZ 10 |
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| 12.1 | M 11/25 | Tacitus catch-up | |
| THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
| 12.2 | M 12/2 | Inscriptions, all (Hackett, pp. 451-502) | The Epigraphic Habit: Graffiti and Epitaphs |
| W 12/4 | Apuleius The Golden Ass Books 1-6 (Ruden)
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Apuleius 1: Making an Ass of Yourself, and Cupid and Psyche | |
| F 12/6 | Apuleius The Golden Ass Books 7-11 (Ruden)
QUIZ 11 |
Apuleius 2: Satirical Salvation? | |
| 13 | M 12/9 | Apuleius continued | |
| W 12/11 | Apuleius Continued | ||
| F 12/13 | In Conclusion QUIZ 12 |
In Conclusion and Next Steps | |
| STUDY PERIOD | |||
| EXAM PERIOD FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 19 - 11:30am to 2pm |
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