SYLLABUS OF DAILY ASSIGNMENTS for Latin 382A ÔAfricansÕ in History and Epic (Starks, Binghamton University SUNY, Spring 2013)

Readings are to be completed by the date they appear on the syllabus as they will constitute the majority of material to be discussed that day.

Aeneid 1 = Clyde Pharr, ed. – scanned pdfs

Aeneid 4 = J.J. OÕHara. Vergil Aeneid 4. Focus

Livy = P.G. Walsh, ed. Livy Book XXI (Bristol) listed by chapter and section number
HW = J.C. Yardley, tr. Hannibal's War (Oxford) – translation, listed by chapter number
BJ = L. Watkiss, ed. Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum – scanned pdfs
Jug = W. Batstone, tr. Oxford WorldÕs Classics.

IMPORTANT NOTE - Readings listed in the format Livy 2.3-4.1 are from Walsh's Latin text
Readings listed in the format (HW 17-18.2) are in Yardley's English translation
BJ readings are listed in the former format, Jug readings follow the latter format.

Useful Links:
    * A good basic site on Hannibal and the Punic Wars: http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm
    * More about the complete Milan Hunter Manuscript: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/oct2005.html
    * Some basic maps of North Africa, including clicakble Second Punic War: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/carthagemaps/
    * Super site for basic intros to historical figures and some texts - see especially Carthage and Rome, and look under Titus Livius to find links to some introductory info on Livy, including the complete Periochae http://www.livius.org/
    * A selective, succinct, scholarly bibliography of Livy by Tim Moore, my fellow TarHeel and ancient theater cohort from UTAustin: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~tjmoore/livybib.html
    * Complete translation of Polybius' Histories: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/home.html

For any Latin word - from Lewis&Short dictionary

Vergil Aeneid 4 – each Latin word is searchable for morphology

 

Livy 21 – each Latin word is searchable for morphology

Sallust Bellum Iugurthinum - each Latin word is searchable for morphology

 

 

 

T 1-29

Aeneid 1.1-33

 

Th 1-31

Aeneid (1.34-296 Eng), 297-304 Lat,

(305-334 Eng), 335-370 Lat, (371-417 Eng),

418-458 Lat, (459-489 Eng)

 

Latin text for today here

English excerpts can be read here

T 3-26

Th 3-28


FERIAE VERNALES

T 2-5

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)

 

Aeneid 4.1-30

 

Latin text for today here

English excerpts can be read here

T 4-2

Livy 34.1-4 (HW 34.5-39)

Livy 40-41

Report on HW Book 28 (Satya)

Th 2-7

Aeneid 4.31-139

Th 4-4

I am delivering a paper at the Comparative Drama Conference

Baltimore MD –  NO CLASS

T 2-12

Aeneid 4.140-258

 

Abdicatio Papae Benedicti XVI, scripta et dicta latine – res novae ab nuntio narratae

Article Report 1 (Tasfia)

 

Th 2-14

Aeneid 4.259-361

Article Report 2 (Sara)

T 4-9

Livy 42-44

Juvenal 10 lines 147-167 – Latin, English

 

Report on HW Book 29 (Chrystal)

Discussion Leading Day 6

T 2-19

Aeneid 4.362-473


Discussion Leading Day 1 (Tim)

 

Article Report 3 (Matt)

Th 4-11

Livy 44-45 (HW 46-52) Livy 53-54.3

(HW 54.4-56) Livy 57 (HW 58-63)

 

Report on HW Book 30 (Bianca)

Th 2-21

Aeneid 4.474-583


Discussion Leading Day 2 (Jacob)

 

Article Report 4 (Chrystal)

T 4-16

Report on Florus' Epitomes & the Periochae (Henry)

 

Watkiss intro to BJ and BJ portions of Jug

BJ Intro + Vocabulary linked here
(Jug 1-4, Prologue) BJ 5-8

 

BJ Latin Text chapters 5-54 linked here

 

BJ All Notes Commentary linked here

T 2-26

Aeneid 4.584-705

5.1-7, 6.450-476


Discussion Leading Day 3 (Chrystal)

 

Read my article ÒFides Aeneia: Transference of Punic

Stereotypes in the AeneidÓ Classical Journal 94.1999.255-83.

Th 4-18

BJ 9-12

Th 2-28

Walsh Intro
Livy 1-3

 

Article Report 5 (Vergil - Bianca)

F 4-19

EXAM 2 – Livy  (arrange a time to come by

my office and take this during the day)

F 3-1

EXAM 1 – VERGIL (arrange a time to come by

my office and take this during the day)

T 4-23

BJ 13 (Jug 14-16.4) BJ 16.5-19 (Jug 20-21.3) BJ 21.4-22 (Jug 23)

Article Report  6

T 3-5

Livy 4-5 (Franko article –linked here)

 

Report on HW Book 22 (Jacob)

Th 4-25

 BJ 24 (Jug 25) BJ 26 (Jug 27-32)

BJ 33-35

 

Discussion Leading Day 7

 

Article Report 7

Th 3-7

Livy 6 (HW 7-8)

Livy 9-11.6 (HW 11.7-12.3)

 

Report on HW Book 23 (Tasfia)

T 4-30

(Jug 36-40) BJ 41 (Jug 42-48)
BJ 49 (Jug 50-52.4) BJ 52.5-53

 

Discussion Leading Day 8

 

Article Report 8

T 3-12

Livy 12.3-16

 

Report on HW Book 24  (Matt)

Th 5-2

BJ Latin Text chapters 55-101 linked here

 

(Jug 54-61.3) BJ 61.4-62
 (Jug 63-64) BJ 65-67 (Jug 68-69)

Discussion Leading Day 9

 

Article Report 9

Th 3-14

(HW 17-18.2)
Livy 18.3-21

 

Discussion Leading Day 4 (Allana)

 

Report on HW Book 25 (Tim)

T 5-7

BJ 70-72 (Jug 73-78) BJ 79-81 (Jug 82-88.4)

BJ 88.5-89 (Jug 90-91.3)

Discussion Leading Day 10

 

Article Report 10

T 3-19

Livy 22-26.2


Report on HW Book 26 (Sara)

 

Th 5-9

BJ 91.4-91.7 (Jug 92-97.3)

BJ 97.4-5 (Jug 98-102.4) BJ 102.5-102.11
(Jug 102.12-103.3) BJ 103.4-6
(Jug 103.7-107) BJ 108 (Jug 109-112)
BJ 113-114.2 (Jug 114.3-4)

Th 3-21

Livy 26.3-28.12 (HW 29)
Livy 30-31.8 (HW 31.9-33)

 

Discussion Leading Day 5 (Matt)

Report on HW Book 27 (Allana)

Th 5-16

 

2-4 PM

 

AB 125


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