York
Programme in
Classical Studies
Humanities 2105 9,0
Roman Literature and Culture
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Paul Swarney 033 McLaughlin
College 416-736-5158 pswarney@yorku.ca |
Fall Term MMV
Required Texts:
Books required for purchase
from the University Bookstore (or wherever you buy books):
From
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Translated
by Catharine Edwards ISBN: 0-19-283271-9
Plautus, Four Comedies, Translated by Erich Segal, ISBN: 0-19-283896-2
Catullus, The Poems of Catullus, Edited with introduction, translation and brief notes
by Guy Lee, ISBN: 0-19-283587-4
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe, Translated by Sir Ronald
Melville,
ISBN 0-19281761-2
Caesar, The Gallic War, Translated by Carolyn Hammond, ISBN: 0-19-283582-3
Cicero, The Republic and The Laws, Translated by Niall Rudd, ISBN: 0-19-283236-0
Winter Term:
Horace, The
Complete Odes and Epodes:Horace
Translated by David West,
ISBN: 0-19-283942-X
Livy, The Rise of Rome,
Translated and edited by T. J Luce,
ISBN: 0-19-282296-9
Livy, The Dawn of the
Vergil, The Eclogues and Georgics, Translated by C. Day Lewis,ISBN:
0-19-283768-0
Propertius , The Poems,
Translated with notes by Guy Lee, ISBN:
0-19-283573-4
Ovid, The Love Poems ,
Translated by A. D. Melville,ISBN:
0-19-283633-1
Ovid, Metamorphoses,Translated
by A. D. Melville, ISBN 0-19-283472-X
Petronius, The Satyricon,
Translated by P. G. Walsh, ISBN:
0-19-283952-7
Juvenal, The Satires,
Translated by Niall Rudd, ISBN:
0-19-283945-4
Lucan, Civil War, Translated by Susan
H. Braund,
ISBN: 0-19-283949-7
Tacitus, The Histories, Revised and edited by D. S. Levene, a revision of the translation of W. H. Fyfe, ISBN: 0-19-283958-6
Apuleius, The Golden
Ass, Translated by P. G. Walsh, ISBN: 0-19-283888-1
From Penguin Books:
Terence, The Comedies, translated
by Betty Radice, ISBN0-14-044324-X
Winter Term
Sallust, The Jugurthine
War/The Conspiracy of Catiline, translated by S.A. Handford, ISBN
0-14-044132-8
Pliny, The Letters of the
Younger Pliny, translated by Betty Radice, ISBN 0-14-044127-1
From
Winter Term
Vergil, Vergil’s Aeneid, translated by L.R. Lind, ISBN-0253-20045-8
ESSAYS AND EXAMINATIONS: FALL TERM MMV
ESSAYS
Several assignments
will be given in the Fall term on a wide variety of topics. The first of these
will be graded but will not be included in the term evaluation. All subsequent assignments
will be carefully read and evaluated.. Some of the term assignments will
require working in groups. Performance in essays will constitute 50% of the
term evaluation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ESSAYS ARE DUE IN CLASS ON THE
ASSIGNED DATE. ANY ESSAY HANDED IN AFTER THE DUE DATE WILL HAVE ONE GRADE
SUBTRACTED FROM ITS EVALUATION FOR EACH CLASS BY WHICH IT IS OVERDUE; E.G. AN A ESSAY HANDED IN
ONE CLASS LATE WILL BE GRADED B ETC.
You must make and retain copies of all
assignments submitted in class. You
should also be able to produce notes and material used to prepare assignments
as required.
TESTS: FALL TERM
Two sixty minute
tests on the assigned material and the topics covered in class and discussion
will be set at the start of class on
Monday 17 October and Monday 5
Decemebr in 108 Founders College.
Performance in examination will constitute 50% of the term evaluation.
PARTICIPATION
From -3 to +3
points.
FORMAT
The class will meet
weekly on Monday for a lecture in
Founders College 108 from
The potential
litigious behaviour of a small minority of the undergraduate population and the
precise facts about student attendance demanded by University Offices require
that attendance records be kept for each session. Students should note that participation
in the discussions of topics and analysis of assigned readings is obligatory,
and that reading and preliminary analysis of assigned material should be
completed in advance of the session in which the material is to be employed.
Participation in
the course will add between ‑3
points to +3 points to the term evaluation. It should be noted that students
who habitually absent themselves from lectures and seminars generally find it
impossible to participate in sessions which they do not attend!
ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS
The rules and
regulations concerning plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty governing the course are those of the
University and Faculty of Arts. Students will be expected to have acquainted
themselves with these regulations and will be reminded of disciplinary
procedures and penalties should occasion for such procedures present
themselves. Please review relevant
pages in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Rule # 24 You may no longer eat or drink in class. You must either have breakfast before the lecture
or starve. This is a matter of courtesy
to your fellow students and a matter of necessity for one of the professors who
gains significantly in weight merely by looking at food!
YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ AND REMBER THE
UNIVERSITY POLICY ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY!
http://www.yorku.ca/academicintegrity
LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS: FALL TERM MMV
September 12 Caesar
Augustus and the (re)Invention of Roma.
Suetonius, Caesar
Augustus
First Essay Assigned
19 Augustus
res gestae divi
Augusti
Suetonius, Augustus
First Essay Due: 108 Founders College
08:30
26 A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the 2nd Century
Plautus,
Menechmi, Miles Gloriosus
October 03 Comedy
and Gladiators: Warriors and Comic
Poets
Terence, Andria,
Hecyra
Second Essay due 08:30 Founders College 108
Third assignment distributed (First
Report)
17 First
Examination 108
Third
Assigment due
24 Cicero for the Defence
Cicero, pro Roscio
Amerino
Statements due concerning Professional Report 2 Sections 1-3
31 Life
and Loves of a Young Gentleman of Verona
Catullus,
Poems
November 07 Lucretius and the serious side of C. Memmius
Lewis A. Licht,
John T. Ramsey, The Comet of 44 B.C. and
Caesar's FuneralGames,
Sara Bartolomucci, Rose Basciano, Jessica Luet, Christa Younes
07-30 Fourth Assignment Presented in Seminar
14 Lucretius and the Invention of Roman
Philosophy
Lucretius 4-6
Timothy J.
Moore, The Theatre of Plautus: Playing to
the audience.
Melissa Chin-You
Nasma Mohsini
Carmelita
Realeza
21 C. Caesar, his
Prose and his Friends -and Enemies
Caesar, de
Donald G. Kyle, Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, London ; New York : Routledge, 1998
Marc
Covelli marc_covelli@hotmail.com
Leslie Ponce leslie_ponce@edu.yorku.ca
Brandon Desytnik bjd6000@hotmail.com
Trevor Sawh rovert_13@hotmail.com
Rafi Yilmaz hbk-cliq14@hotmail.com
28 Cicero, his Prose and his Friends -and Enemies
Cicero,
pro Caelio
Stefan Wienstock, "Divus Julius", Oxford
University Press, 1971
Group members:
Scott McAlpine
Kabir Sharma
Chastine Palinic
Cassandra Reid
Ali Rashid
Jamie Burrows
Phang, S.E. The Marriage of Roman Solders. Boston: Brill 2001. KJA
2233 P48 2001
Artemis
Papachristos, Melissa Moreira, Angelo Telidis, Simorrah Colaco
30
Galsworthy, Roman
Army
Zerba, Michelle. "Love,
Envy, and Pantomimic Morality in Ciceros De Oratore".
Classical Philology V97 (October 2002): 299-321
Christina Spano, Tania Mohammed, and Giuseppe
Cammisuli
???? R.M. Ogilvie, Ancient culture and society The Romans
and Their Gods, london, University of Oxford 1969.
group members: Fernando Nicastri
Veronica Krymer
Martina Polsinelli????????????
December 05 Second Examination, 08:30 in 108 Founders
College
THE CRITICAL
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE THIS YEAR
1. Textual
analysis: macrocosms and microcosms
The course requires
students to read and to understand the general plots of some easy and some very
difficult ancient texts in translation.
It also requires that each student develop real skills at reading
significance from very small and
apparently insignificant details.
2. Visual
analysis: macrocosms and microcosms
The course requires
students to develop real skills at understanding and analyzing a wide variety
of visual material from the ancient world.
Students are also required to transfer when possible, or even when
seemingly impossible, the visual events presented to them and the textual
events that they have read.
Students are
further required to develop techniques for understanding rhetorical convention
and practise in textual and visual material
and to apply this in turn to their continuing analysis of both kinds of
material. In a very important way this
is at the heart of our critical plan.
At the end of the course we hope that each student will be able clearly
to distinguish the lines between rhetorical and other kinds of events.
4. Developing
skills in written analysis
A series of
sessions have been planned that flow from lecture to seminar about developing
students' skills in expressing thoughts and conclusions about the material
and discussions in the course. We have
planned a wide range of written assignments from the trivial to the creative.
5. Asking the
critical questions
The concentration
here, right from the opening lecture, is on
formulating questions rather than simply discovering the
"right" answer. Our first and
second assignments are aimed at this and set the pace for the rest of the
course.
6.
Developing a language about language
A series of topics have been inserted into appropriate
lectures and seminars about the way in which people have described how written
and oral language work, that is about the grammar and rhetoric of English and
other languages. This is both a
practical and topical way to bring more
understanding to our very foreign texts and pictures and an excellent method
for understanding grammatical and
syntactic structures.
Due: Monday 19 September
08:30 Founders College 108
Length: 1
double spaced typewritten page
Topic: The
least important detail in Suetonius' Augustus
Carefully read Suetonius' Augustus. Select the detail that you consider to be
the least significant and carefully explain the reasons for your choice.
Evaluation:
Your essay will be carefully read
and evaluated. The mark, however, will not be included in your final grade. This is probably the most important
assignment of the year since it allows your writing skills to be carefully
assessed. Suggestions and strategies
for future essays in this course flow from this first assignment.