Daily
Assignments – Latin 380W: Women in the Roman World—Spring 2019
Starks –Binghamton University SUNY:
Readings
below are to be completed by the day they appear on the syllabus, as they will comprise
the primary subject matter for consideration in class that day.
Some Independent Study Aids for Latin:
Lewis – Elementary
Latin Dictionary
Lewis & Short – comprehensive
Latin dictionary
Latin Word Study tool - enter the full Latin
form and you should get a complete grammatical analysis of the word + a
dictionary entry
Latin Dictionary headwords - searchable by
Latin roots and English meanings - enter laud to search for laudo, laudabilis, laudatio etc.
English to Latin word search
Allen and Greenough's New Latin
Grammar for Schools and Colleges (eds.
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj.
L. D'Ooge) - a fairly advanced and comprehensive
Latin grammar
Latin
Library – most comprehensive currently available collection of
searchable Latin texts, classical, late Latin, and
some Medieval and Neo-Latin
Perseus
Collection of Roman materials, especially Latin texts, listed by author and
then title – best source for many of the literary texts you will
encounter, searchable by word connected with Lewis and Short dictionary
Epigraphy Resources
Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR) –
best resource for inscriptions in Rome and many in Italy. Use keywords
in Text, such as names or a particular, interesting word to find your specific
inscription
Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby + Kolb/Woitas (EDCS) – most comprehensive online collection
of Latin inscriptions from around the Mediterranean. Use same text
searching feature as listed above.
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)
(Open Access), via ARACHNE, German database aggregator for ancient
studies– best digitized copies of the pre-1940 volumes of CIL
Book Abbreviations for Assignments Below
WRW = PAGE NUMBERS in book, Worlds of Roman Women, ed. Raia/Luschnig/Sebesta
OLC = supplementary text on On-line Companion
to Worlds of Roman Women / see links below
Aeneid Lat = Book + Line numbers, VergilÕs Aeneid I-VI, ed. C. Pharr; Aeneid Eng = Book + line numbers
RW = PAGE NUMBERS in book, Roman Women, ed. Fraschetti
In WRW, read aloud and translate the passages, as often as possible, without
writing down a word for word translation. Never write translations in the book
itself - keep a clean text and make notes.
On-Line
Companion to Worlds of Roman Women - texts, images, commentary
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W
1-23 |
WRW
Intro, World of Childhood pp. 1-8 CLE
1518 (WRW 9) = OLC Euodia Cipara (see below) OLC:
Helena; Maconiana
Severiana; Minucia
Suavis; Nymphe ILS
5213 (WRW 11) Eucharis – use EDR and EDCS for any inscriptions you are
reading, so you can find images, commentary, dating, and bibliography Review
Images of Childhood GIRLS at OLC link above |
M
3-25 |
Aeneid 1.1-33 Lat (1.34-296 Eng), 297-304 Lat, (305-334 Eng), 335-370 Lat, (371-417 Eng), 418-458 Lat, (459-489 Eng) English
excerpts can be read at
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidI.php |
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M
1-28 |
Naevius 74-79 (WRW 20), OLC: Geminia Agathe OLC Young Girl + Activity ÔComplete a Latin InscriptionÕ OLC Pliny Epistulae 7.18; Pliny Epistulae 5.16 (WRW12-15) Review
Images of Childhood PLAYTHINGS at OLC link above |
W
3-27 |
Aeneid 1.490-508 Lat, (509-559 Eng), 561-578 Lat, (579-636 Eng), 637-642 Lat, (643-656 Eng), 657-735 Lat, (736-756 Eng) English
excerpts can be read at https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidI.php |
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F
3-29 7:30
PM Or
Sun
3-31 3
PM |
Please Attend – we can talk about possibly
going together and getting dinner Friday, March 29 – Opera
Ensemble presents Purcell's Dido and Aeneas – 7:30 p.m. –
Anderson Center Chamber Hall – $15 general public; $10
faculty/staff/seniors/alumni; $5 students Sunday, March 31 – Opera
Ensemble presents Purcell's Dido and Aeneas – 3 p.m. – Anderson
Center Chamber Hall – $15 general public; $10
faculty/staff/seniors/alumni; $5 students Tickets here
https://www.binghamton.edu/music/concerts.html |
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W
1-30 |
RW
Introduction + Chapter 1 ÒClaudia the Vestal Virgin,Ó pp. 1-33 Gellius 1.12.1-19 (WRW 16-19) + additional notes here Review
Images of Childhood MONUMENTS, COINS at OLC Link |
M
4-1 |
Aeneid 4.1-139 |
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M
2-4 |
World
of Learning WRW pp. 21-23 OLC:
Martial Epigrammata
9.68: Girls at School OLC:
Valerius Maximus factorum et dictorum memorabilia 8.3.1: Amesia; 8.3.2: Afrania; 8.3.3: Hortensia (3 women as public speakers in court) Martial
Epigrammata 3.69.5-8 (WRW 27) Review
first 4 Images of Learning at OLC |
W
4-3 |
Aeneid 4.140-258 –Discussion Leading Day 1 |
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W
2-6 |
Pliny
Epistulae 4.19 (WRW 25-27) Suetonius Augustus 64.2-3, Quintilian 1.1.4,6 (for
1.1.6 see also here)
(WRW 33) Sulpicia Conquestio 7-11
(WRW 36) Vindolanda
Letter of Claudia Severa to Sulpicia
Lepidina Vindolanda Tablet 291 ONLINE – see SeveraÕs and her scribeÕs handwriting; also look at
translation and notes of Tablets 292-294, other letters to Lepidina Review
next 4 Images of Learning at OLC |
M
4-8 |
Aeneid 4.259-401 |
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M
2-11 |
RW
ÒHypatia the IntellectualÓ 160-189 Juvenal
6.434-456 (WRW 35) ILS
1221 a, b (WRW 47) + image here ILS
8403 (WRW 49) OLC:
Claudia Piste; Julia Capriola Review
last 5 Images of Learning at OLC |
W
4-10 |
Aeneid 4.402-521 - Discussion
Leading Day 2 |
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M
2-18 |
World
of Marriage (WRW 37-39) Valerius Maximus 6.7 (WRW 51), Pliny 7.5 (WRW 55) OLC:
Furia Spes; Nothi coniunx; Tacitus Annales 11.12,
Messalina Review
images of Marriage Ceremony and Dextrarum
Iunctio at OLC |
M
4-15 |
Aeneid 4.522-641 – Discussion Leading Day 3 |
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T
4-16 |
CEMERS Lecture: Barbara
Gold, Hamilton College Perpetua:
Athlete of God 6:00 PM – Fine Arts 258 |
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W
2-20 |
CIL
6.6593, Valerius Maximus 4.3.3 - Antonia,
4.6.5 - Porcia (WRW 53) + OLC: Martial 1.42 OLC:
Livy 30.12,
15, Sophoni(s)ba; Spousal Abuse of
Wives World
of Family (WRW 61-63) Review
images of CONIUGES here; images of
Antonia Minor here |
W
4-17 |
Aeneid 4.642-705; 5.1-7, 6.450-476 Read my article: ÒFides Aeneia: Transference of Punic
Stereotypes in the AeneidÓ
Classical Journal 94.1999.255-83 World
of Work (WRW 127-129) Columella de Re Rustica 1.8.19
(WRW 133) = OLC here; Vergil Aeneid 8.407-415 (WRW 140) = OLC here;
ILS 6373: Naevoleia Tyche
– see here
(WRW 135) |
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M
2-25 |
RW
ÒCornelia the MatronÓ 34-65 Nepos
Cornelia fr. 1-2 (WRW 77) – further
notes here OLC Valerius Maximus Memorabilia 4.4: Cornelia Gracchorum Cicero
ad Familiares 14.20 (WRW 85) ILS
8394: Laudatio Funebris Murdiae (WRW 86) OLC:
Julia Secunda & Cornelia Tyche;
Suetonius
Divus Iulius 6:
Julia, aunt of Caesar Review
all images of FAMILY here Read
Intro to World of Class here |
M
4-22 |
CIL
6.6647, Hygia (WRW 133); Pliny Historia
Naturalis excerpts on artists, 35.147-148,
7.158 (WRW 137) RW
ÒLycoris the MimeÓ (82-99) Pliny Ep. 7.24, Ummidia
Quadratilla, owner of pantomimes OLC
Caupona of Salvius, barmaids ; Gladiatrices Gnome,
hairdresser; Aurelia Nais, fishmonger; Septimia Stratonice, cobbler;
Servia
Cornelia Sabina, nurse Also
Identify professions of women on these inscriptions
from ILS Review
Images of INSCRIPTIONS here |
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W
2-27 |
Petronius
37, 67, 76 (WRW 73-74), ILS1046a (WRW 75) OLC: World of Class:
Nepos de viris illustribus,
praefatio 2-7, Greek and Roman Women OLC:
World of Class – Eumachia;
Petronia Hedone; Claudia Olympias; Antonia Caenis; Crepereia
Innula RW
ÒHelena Augusta: From Innkeeper to EmpressÓ 141-159; images of Helena here Review
Images of JEWELRY at OLC link here |
W
4-24 |
OLC:
Vernae,
homeborn slaves; Ulpian, Digesta Iustiniani 23.2.43.6-9,
defining prostitution Plautus Mostellaria
ÒHaunted HouseÓ Act 1, Scene 3 – read Latin side by side with my
2012 production translation of the scene in ÒThe Ghoul Next DoorÓ OLC 3 Curse Tablets
+ one more curse
of Rhodine Review
Images of WORKERS and WORKPLACE here |
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Th 4-25 Or F
4-26 |
EXAM 2 – Arrange a
1.5-2.5 hour period for taking your exam and come by my office at the time
you choose to take that exam here |
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Th 2-28 |
World
of the Body (WRW 87-91) Valerius Maximus, Julia daughter of Caesar 4.6.4 (WRW 95) Livy
4.44, Postumia (WRW 103 + OLC here);
Plautus Epidicus
221-234 (WRW 101) OLC:
Cicero pro Caelio
33-34, Clodia Metelli;
Macrobius Saturnalia
2.5.2-5,7,9, Julia, daughter of Augustus Review
Images of Julia at OLC link here Review
Images of CLOTHING at OLC link here |
M
4-29 |
World
of Religion – read intro here OLC officia sacra feminea
- Women and Family Religious Ritual OLC sacerdotes extra Romam –
priestesses in Italy –
selections from both of these to be discussed closer
to this class session OLC
CIL 14.371, Metilia Acte; Tacitus Annales
2.86.1-2, Occia virgo Vestalis |
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Th 2-28 or F
3-1 |
EXAM 1 – Arrange a
1.5-2.5 hour period for taking your exam and come by my office at the time
you choose to take that exam here |
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M
3-4 |
Celsus de Medicina
2.8,4.27 (WRW 91), Ovid Amores 1.14.1-5,
13-18 (WRW 104) Pliny
the Elder historia naturalis 28.20-23 – look at Latin and
notes WRW 93-95 side by side with translation here at Perseus
OLC Claudia Semne ; OLC Ovid Ars Amatoria 3.281-310
– Advice for Girls RW
ÒPerpetua the MartyrÓ 118-140 Review
Images of COSMETICS and BODY & HEALTH at OLC link here |
W
5-1 |
Ovid
Ars Amatoria
(WRW 145) Opposite
ends of an affair: Catullus
51 + Sappho 31:
Catullus
7; Catullus
11 Catullus
79; Catullus
83; Catullus
85, 86, 87 – use blue arrows to advance Article Report #1 |
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W
3-6 |
World
of the State (WRW 105-107) Livy
2.40: Veturia (WRW 117) OLC:
Livy 1.11-5-9,
Tarpeia; 1.11.1-2, Hersilia OLC Claudia
Octavia, from pseudo-Seneca tragedy on daughter of Claudius and wife of
Nero Review
Images of She-Wolf, Sabine Women and Tarpeia at OLC
link above Images
of HAIRSTYLES here |
M
5-6 |
Propertius
2.23.12-20 (WRW 143); Ovid Ars Amatoria excerpts (WRW 147) Horace Carmina/Odes 3.9 (WRW 149) OLC Horace Carmina/Odes 1.22, Lalage Article Report #2 |
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M
3-11 |
Livy
39: Hispala Faecenia (WRW
115); Sallust Bellum Catilinum 24.4-5, 25
(WRW 123) OLC:
Cicero Philippics 2, Fulvia RW
ÒFulvia the Woman of PassionÓ 66-81 Review
Images of FULVIA and Republican Women at OLC link here |
W
5-8 |
De Sulpicia elegiae 1 ÒSulpiciaÕs garlandÓ (WRW 99) Sulpicia 1-6 (WRW 151-153) – additional notes here Review
all images of FLIRTATION at OLC Article Report #3 |
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W
3-13 |
Tacitus
Annales 1.33, 40, 69 (WRW 125-126) OLC:
Tacitus Annales 1.3-6, Livia; 14.34-35, Boudica RW
"Livia the PoliticianÓ 100-117 Review
Images of Livia, Agrippina I and Agrippina II here |
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M
3-18 W
3-20 |
*feriae vernales* |
M 5-13 3:15-5:15 PM |
FINAL EPIGRAPHY PROJECT
PRESENTATION |
