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Instructor:   Dr. Annette Giesecke
Office:        111 Jastak-Burgess Hall, Th 11-12 and by appointment
                   x0545, alg@udel.edu

Text: T. Macci Plauti: Miles Gloriosus. ed. M. Hammond, A.M. Mack, and W. Moskalew. Harvard University Press
Requirements and Assessment:

                 Participation (necessarily includes physical presence) 40%
                 Presentation* 10%
                 Paper (formalization of oral presentation, 1500 word minimum)  20%
                 Final Examination 30%

Potential presentation topics: Ropman comedy and its relation to Greek drama; life and times of Plautus; Roman theater and theater production; life of a soldier; slavery in ancient Rome; prostitution in ancient Rome; women in ancient Rome; Plautine grammar and usage
 
 

Schedule of classes/weekly assignments arranged by due date (for example, students should have prepared liness 1-108 for week 2)

Feb. 12: course introduction

19: 1-108

26: 109-218

March 4: 219-329

11: 330-450

18: 451-560

25: 561-672
                          SPRING BREAK
April 8: 673-783

15: 784-894

22: 895-1005

May 1: 1006-1116

6: 1117-1227

13: 1228-1338

20: 1339-1437 (end)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

Texts:        Bonnie A. Catto, ed. Lucretius: Selections from De Rerum Natura. Bolchazy-Carducci. 1998.

**Potential presentation topics: life of Lucretius, Gaius Memmius, Lucretius and Cicero, Lucretius and Catullus, Epicurus, Epicureanism in Italy, Villa of the Papyri, Lucretius and Satire, Lucretius' anthropology, Lucretius and Thucydides (accounts of the Athenian plague)

Schedule of Classes/weekly assignments arranged by due date:

August 29:     course introduction

Sept. 5:    1.1-43; 1.50-116; 1.146-148

12:            1.149-173; 1.215-236; 1.250-321

19:            1.329-345; 1.358-369; 1.400-409; 1.410-432; 1.485-488; 1.4988-502; 1.528-530; 1.565-576; 1.921-950

26:            1.958-959; 1.963-983; 1.1021-1030; 1.1031-1037; 2.1-33; 2.37-61; 2.95-99; 2.114-122

Oct. 1:        2.142-164; 2.216-224; 2.251-268; 2.289-293; 2.308-370

10:               2.523-540; 2.646-660; 2.991-1009; 2.1013-1065; 2.1074-1076

17:                2.1090-1104; 2.1150-1152; 2.1157-1174; 3.1-30; 3.37-64; 3.94-97; 3.136-144; 3.152-160

24:                3.323-349; 3.830-842; 3.894-903

29:                3.912-965; 3.978-1023

Nov. 7:        4.1058-1064; 4.1089-1101; 4.1120-1122; 4.1129-1159; 4.1177-1179; 4.1278-1287

14:              5.1-2; 5.6-27; 5.37-51; 5.64-77; 5.195-246

19:               5.925-947; 5.953-961; 9.966-972; 5.1011-1023; 5.1028-1029; 5.1041-1045; 5.1050-1051; 5.1056-1068; 5.1183-1189;
                    5.1194-1203; 5.1392-1414

28:                5.1412-1435; 54.1448-1457; 6.58-78; 6.1090-1097; 6.1138-1144; 6.1256-1258; 6.1267-1286

Dec. 3:        paper due
                   course overview
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Texts: Wheelock's Latin (6th edition), Frederick M. Wheelock, rev. by Richard A. LaFleur (Harper Collins: 2000). Anne H. Groton and James M. May, 38 Latin Stories, 5th rev. ed. (Bolchazy-Carducci: 1995). Hereafter = 38. Norma Goldman and Ladislas Syzmanski, English Grammar for Students of Latin, 2nd ed. (The Olivia and Hill Press: 1993). OPTIONAL Dale A. Grote, A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin (Bolchazy-Carducci: 2001). OPTIONAL  Barnes & Noble Amazon

Aims: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the language and culture of Ancient Rome via her extant literature. During the first year of Latin, students will acquire much of the linguistic competence necessary for reading, understanding, and appreciating such classic works as Virgil's Aeneid, the political speeches of Cicero, the poetry of Catullus, and the histories of Livy and Tacitus. A further objective of this course is student awareness of the significant debt of the English language to Latin.

Expectations: It is of great importance that students attend class regularly because it is very easy to fall behind in a beginning language course. It is also very important that students participate -- and there is really no way to avoid participation in a class of such an interactive nature. Please also be aware that 6 hours per week is the minimum amount of time that you should set aside for study and homework.

Assignments: There will be regular written homework assignments, and these will be collected. Practice is the key to success in language learning, so it is important to complete assignments as they are given.

Attendance: You are allowed 5 unexcused absences; beyond 5, 1 point will be deducted from your final grade for each unexcused absence. If a student is absent without excuse, his or her homework will not be accepted, nor will he or she be allowed to make up any missed quiz or exam.

Grading: Your final course grade will be calculated as follows:

Weekly quizzes (most every Friday): 25%

Homework and Class Participation: 20%

Midterm Examination: 25% (MARCH 23)

Final Examination: 30% (MAY 23)

Please do not bother to ask to take your exams early/late unless you have a very good (and documented) reason.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

FEB. 7: Course Introduction  HW: 38, p. 18

9: Go over HW, review  HW: 38, p. 36

12: Assignment: Choose 3rd, 4th, and 5th declension nouns, as well as a 3rd declension adjective, and write out all of their forms (except vocative case). Then choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd -io, and 4th conjugation verbs and write out all of their indicative forms (all tenses, active & passive). See Wheelock, pp. 446ff., for guidance. You may not choose the same words that Wheelock does. This will be graded as a quiz.

14: Go over 38, p. 36, review  HW: review

16: Intro. to Ch. 23: participles (NO QUIZ)  HW: 38, p. 42

19: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 23, P&R odds

21: Intro. to Ch. 24: ablative absolute, passive periphrastic, dative of agent  HW: 38, p. 44

23: Go over HW (QUIZ, ch. 23)  HW: Ch. 24, P&R, S.A., evens

26: Intro. to Ch. 25: infinitives, indirect statement  HW: 38, p. 46

28: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 25, P&R odds

MAR. 2: Intro. to Ch. 26: comparison of adjectives, ablative of comparison (QUIZ, chs. 24, 25)  HW: 38, p. 48.

5: Intro. to Ch. 27: special and irregular comparison of adjectives  HW: 38, p. 50.

7: Intro. to Ch. 28: subjunctive mood; present subjunctive; jussive and purpose clauses  HW: 38, p. 52.

9: Go over HW (QUIZ, chs. 26, 27)  HW: Ch. 28, P&R, S.A. evens

12: Intro. to Ch. 29: imperfect subjunctive; present and imperfect subjunctive of sum and possum; result clauses  HW: 38, p. 54

14: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 29, P&R ONLY odds

16: Intro. to Ch. 30: perfect and pluperfect subjunctive; indirect questions; sequence of tenses (QUIZ chs. 28, 29)  HW: 38, p. 56

19: Go over HW

21: Review for midterm

22: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

26-30: NO CLASS (SPRING RECESS)

APR. 2: Go over exam; intro. to Ch. 31: cum clauses, fero  HW: 38, p. 58

4: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 31, P&R, S.A. evens

6: Intro. to Ch. 32: formation and comparison of adverbs; volo, malo, nolo; proviso clauses  HW: 38, p. 60

9: Go over HW; Intro. to Ch. 33: conditions  HW: 38, p. 62

11: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 33, pp. 231-33: "B.Y.O.B., etc., etc.," "The Rich Get Richer," "Aristotle...," "Your Loss, My Gain!"

13: Intro. to Ch. 34: deponent verbs; ablative with special deponents  HW: 38, p. 64

16: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 34,p. 242: "On Lesbia's Husband"

18: Intro. to Ch. 35: dative with adjectives; dative with special verbs; dative with compounds. QUIZ, Chs. 31-33. HW: 38, p. 66

20: Go over HW; intro. to Ch. 36: jussive noun clauses; fio  HW: 38, p. 68

23: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 36, pp. 258-59: "Who Is Truly Free?" & "Testimony Against the Conspirators"

25: Intro. to Ch. 37: conjugation of eo; constructions of time and place  HW: 38, p. 70

27: Intro. to Ch. 38: relative clauses of characteristic; dative of reference; supines. QUIZ, Chs. 34-36.  HW: 38, p. 72

30: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 38, p. 274:  "Two Letters to Cicero"

MAY 2: Intro. to Ch. 39: gerund and gerundive  HW: 38, p. 74

4: Go over HW; QUIZ, Chs. 37-38  HW: Ch. 39, pp. 281-82:  "Promises, Promises!" & "Hannibal and the Beginnings of the Second Punic War"

7: Intro to Ch. 40: -ne, num, and nonne in direct questions; fear clauses; genitive and ablative of description  HW: 38, p. 76

9: Go over HW  HW: Ch. 40, p. 288-89:  "Jupiter Prophesies to Venus the Future Glory of Rome"

11: Go over HW; QUIZ, Chs. 39-40

14: Reading from loci antiqui

16: LAST CLASS: review