York
Programme in
Classical Studies
Humanities 2105 9,0
Roman Literature and Culture
|
Paul Swarney 033 McLaughlin
College 416-736-5158 pswarney@yorku.ca |
Winter Term MMVI
Required Texts:
Books required for purchase
from the University Bookstore (or wherever you buy books):
From
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
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: WINTER TERM MMV
ESSAYS
Several assignments
will be given in the Winter 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: WINTER 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 6 February and Monday 3
April 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: WINTER TERM MMVI
January 9 Caesar
Augustus and the (re)Invention of Roma.
Suetonius, Caesar
Augustus
Vergil, Aeneid 1-6
16 Augustus
res gestae divi Augusti
Vergil Aeneid
7-12
23 A Funny Thing Happened on the way to empire.
Vergil, Eclogues 1, 4 and 6
Georgics,
1 and
3
Horace, Epodes, 1 5, 7, 15, 16, 18
30 Caesar Augustus Part 1
Horace Odes, Book 1;
Book 2.1,2, 6, 7, 10, 14; Book
3, 1-6; 30
February 06 Third
Examination 108
13-17 Reading Week
20 Caesar Augustus Part 2
Propertius
Ovid Amores
Topic for Final Essay Due 108
27 Ovid,
Metamorphoses 1-5; 7-10; 15
March 06 Let's get serious: Caesar Augustus Part 3
Livy, Books
1and 31-33
13 Lucan, Pharsalia 1
Petronius, Satyricon
20 Tacitius, Histories 1-3
27 Juvenal,
Satires 1-3; 6; [9]; 10
April 03 Final Examination
108
Final
Essay Due 108
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.