SYLLABUS OF DAILY ASSIGNMENTS for Latin 381B (Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic), Spring 2009 –

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.

* - indicates that the book will be on reserve for three-hour check out at the main library. Even if the exact text is not available on the reserve shelf, some text is available there.
*Steel = Catherine Steel Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome (Duckworth) listed by chapter number
Milone = Cicero Pro Milone, ed. F.H. Colson (Bristol) listed by chapter number or by page number
Letters = Cicero Selected Letters, tr. P.G. Walsh (Oxford World’s Classics) listed by letter number in that collection
*Saylor = Steven Saylor A Murder on the Appian Way (St. Martin’s) listed by page number
*Marcello = Cicero Pro Marcello, tr. N.H. Watts (Cicero Loeb XIV)

*Ligario = Cicero Pro Ligario, tr. N.H. Watts (Cicero Loeb XIV)

*Deiotaro = Cicero Pro Rege Deiotaro, tr. N.H. Watts (Cicero Loeb XIV)

*Philippics = Cicero Philippics 2,ed. J.T. Ramsey (Cambridge) listed by chapter number

For any Latin word - morphological analysis and dictionary entry from Lewis&Short dictionary
especially important this term since you have no glossary attached to your text and where your smaller dictionaries may not have all specialized words

Cicero Pro Milone - each Latin word is searchable for morphology or alternate page
Cicero Phlippics 2 - each Latin word is searchable for morphology or alternate page

T 1-27		T 3-17	Marcello (English, a little Latin TBA) Letters 47-56
Th 1-29	Milone 1-6, Asconius’ Argumentum	Th 3-19	Ligario (English, a little Latin TBA) Speech Report #4 Letters 57-60
T 2-3	Milone 7-11 Steel Intro	T 3-24	Deiotaro (English, a little Latin TBA) Speech Report #5 Letters 61-63
Th 2-5	Milone 12-16 Selected Letters Introduction	Th 3-26	Philippics Intro pp. 1-21 Philippics 1 (Lat) 2-42 (Eng) Letters 64-74
T 2-10	Milone 17-22 Steel 1, Letters 4-5	T 3-31	Philippics 42 (Lat) 43 (Eng) 44-50 (Lat) Letters 75-86
Th 2-12	Milone 23-30 Letters 6-12 Please read article by Jim May ‘Cicero’s Pro Milone: An Ideal Speech by an Ideal Orator’ in Wooten Orator in Action	Th 4-2	Guest Lecturer – I am at CAMWS in Minneapolis delivering on Roman Comedy Philippics 51-57 Letters 87-91
T 2-17	Saylor 3-204 Letters 13-15	T 4-7 Th 4-9	*feriae vernales atque paschales*
Th 2-19	Saylor 205-413 Speech Report #1 Letters 16-18	T 4-14	Philippics 58-66 Speech Report #6 Letters 92-102
T 2-24	Milone (English) 31-71 Steel 2, Letters 19-23	Th 4-16	Philippics 67-74 Letters 103-112
Th 2-26	Guest Lecturer – I am delivering a paper at a Roman Comedy Conference at Florida State University Milone 72-78, Letters 24-27	T 4-21	Philippics 75-81 Speech Report #7 Letters 113-122
T 3-3	Milone 78-84 Steel 3, Letters 28-29	Th 4-23	Philippics 82-89 Letters 124-135
Th 3-5	Milone 85-91 Speech Report #2 Letters 30-33 Read Lynn Fotheringham ‘Having your Cake and Eating it: How Cicero Combines Arguments’ 69-90 in Jonathan Powell, ed. Logos: Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric’ (BICS Supp. 96) 2007	F 4-24	Exam 2
F 3-6	Exam 1	T 4-28	Philippics 90-97 Letters 136-145
T 3-10	Milone 92-98 Steel 4 Speech Report #3 Letters 34-39	Th 4-30	Philippics 98-104 Letters 146-157
Th 3-12	Milone 99-105 Letters 40-46 Read Jakob Wisse ‘The Riddle of the Pro Milone: The Rhetoric of Rational Argument’ 35-68 in Jonathan Powell, ed. Logos: Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric’ (BICS Supp. 96) 2007	T 5-5	Philippics 105-112 Speech Report #8
		Th 5-7	Philippics 113-119 Letters 158-166
			Final Exam Day (Article Reports) – Date and time TBA