LAT380J: Survey of Latin Literature (Unique #33155)
Spring, 2007, TTh 12:30-2, WAG 208
Timothy Moore, 113 Waggener, 232-4161, timmoore@mail.utexas.edu
Office hours T 9-10, 2-3; Th 9-10:45, or by appointment
This course will introduce students to the major authors and themes in
Latin literature, from its origins through the fourth century CE.
We will read a wide range of Latin authors in the original (about
500 verses or the equivalent amount of prose per week) and discuss both
literary history and questions surrounding criticism and methodology.
Texts:
G.B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Course packet, Available from IT Copies, 512 West Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Grading:
Midterm exam: 25%
Final Exam: 50%
Class participation (includes attendance, preparation, contributions to class discussions, and oral reports): 25%
Schedule (subject to change)
January
15: Introduction to Course
17: Origins: Conte 13-28; Denis Feeney, “The Beginnings of a Literature in Latin” (review of W. Suerbaum (ed.), Handbuch der lateinischen Literature der Antike. Erster Band: Die archäische Literatur), Journal of Roman Studies 95 (2005): 226-240; Plautus, Pseudolus 1-209
Drama
22: Republican Tragedy and Plautus; Conte 29-64, 75-78, 104-109; Livy 7.2; Accius, Brutus, 17-38 Warmington; Plautus, Pseudolus 1246-end in Latin, rest in English
24: Terence and Other Republican Comedy; Conte 65-67, 92-103, 125-130; Aulus Gellius 2.1-13; Terence, Adelphoe 1-25, 787-end in Latin, rest in English
29: Seneca and Imperial Drama; Conte 401-404, 416-425; Seneca, Thyestes 1-175, 1030-end in Latin, rest in English
Epic
31: Republican Epic and Vergil; Conte 78-84, 110-111, 200-202, 249-264, 276-291; Ennius, Annales 181-185, 210-227 Warmington; Vergil, Aeneid 8.1-279
February
5: Ovid; Conte 340-343, 350-355, 358-367; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.1-150, 452-567
7: Lucan and Later Epic; Conte 429-430, 440-452, 481, 484-496; Lucan Pharsalia 7.617-872
Lyric and Elegiac
12: Early Lyric and Catullus; Conte 136-154; Catullus 1-16
14: Horace; Conte 292-298, 303-312, 317-320; Horace Odes 1.1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 37, 38, 3.5, 4.7
19: Gallus, Tibullus, Sulpicia, and Propertius; Conte 321-339; Gallus
fragments; Sulpicia poems (Tibullus 3.13-18); Tibullus 1.1; Propertius
1.1, 4.11
21: Ovid; Conte 343-350, 355-358; Ovid, Amores 1.1, Heroides 1, Ars Amatoria 1.1-110
Didactic
26: Lucretius; Conte 155-174; Lucretius 3.830-1094
28: Vergil; Conte 268-276; Vergil Georgics 4.315-566
Satire
March
4: Lucilius and Horace; Conte 112-117, 298-303; Horace Satires 1.1, 1.9
6: Persius and Juvenal; Conte 467-480; Juvenal Satire 1
10-15: Spring Break
18: Pastoral and Other Genres; Conte 264-268, 426-438, 482-484, 505-511; Vergil, Eclogues 1; Statius, Silvae 2.6; Take-home midterm due
History
20: Republican Historiography and Caesar; Conte 68-70, 86-87, 121-123, 225-232; Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1.1-20
25: Sallust; Conte 234-245; Sallust, Catiline 1-20
27: Livy and Augustan Historiography; Conte 367-385; Livy preface, 1.1-17
April
1: Tacitus and Imperial Historiography; Conte 530-531, 532-545; Tacitus Annales 1.1-15
3: Antiquarianism and Biography; Conte 209-24, 546-552; Nepos, Atticus; Suetonius, Caligula 1-8
Rhetoric
8: Republican Rhetoric and Cicero; Conte 68, 89-90, 118-120, 175-189, 199-200, 203-208; Cicero, In Catilinam 1.1-21
10: Seneca the Elder, Quintilian, and Tacitus; Conte 404-407, 512-518, 531-532; Seneca the Elder, Suasoria 7, Quintilian 10.1-19, Tacitus, Dialogus 1-5
15: Epistolography; Conte 202-203, 312-317, 413-415, 525-529; Cicero, Letters: Att. 1.5, 1.2, Fam.7.1; Horace Ars Poetica 1.1-59, Seneca Letters 5, 77; Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.16, 10.96, 97
17: Philosophy; Conte 189-199, 410-413, 415-416; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
22 Philology, Scholarship, and Technical Treatises; Conte 88-89, 123-124, 386-397, 497-504, 571-587; Cato, De agri cultura Preface, 1.1-3
Menippean Satire and the Novel
24: Varro, Seneca, and Petronius; Conte 453-466; Petronius Satyrica 65-78
29: Apuleius; Conte 553-570; Apuleius Metamorphoses 4.28-5.9
May
1: Late Antiquity; Conte 593-697; Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Wednesday, May 7th, 9-12: Final Exam
last modified March 30, 2008 by timmoore@mail.utexas.edu