SYLLABUS OF DAILY ASSIGNMENTS for Latin 380M (Passion(s) in Ovid), Spring 2016 - 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.

Ovid = C.W. Dunmore, Selections from Ovid (Focus). Listed by work, book and line numbers + content (e.g., Metamorphoses 2.1-46 Phaethon)
Fantham = Elaine Fantham. OvidŐs Metamorphoses (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature). Listed by chapter number

MetEng = Ovid Metamorphoses. Tr. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett). Listed by Book Number

Some Independent Study Aids:

Latin Morphological tool - enter the full Latin form and you should get a complete grammatical analysis of the word + a dictionary entry from the Lewis & Short Dictionary
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 - best currently available collection of searchable Latin texts, classical, late Latin, and some Medieval and Neo-Latin

Many Helpful Latin and Classics Links – Numerous resources on grammar, vocabulary and culture gathered by the editors of Worlds of Roman Women

OvidŐs Metamorphoses – each Latin word should be searchable for morphology
OvidŐs Amores, Heroides – each Latin word should be searchable for morphology

A.S. Kline translations of: Ars Amatoria (Art of Love), Heroides, Remedia Amoris, Amores,  Poems of Exile: Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto and Ibis

SCANSION GUIDE FOR DACTYLIC HEXAMETER IN OVID

T 1-26

GUEST SPEAKER

T 3-22

Ovid Metamorphoses 8.738-841 (Erysichthon)

 

MetEng Book 8

 

ARTICLE REPORT 5

Th 1-28

GUEST SPEAKER

 

Th 3-24

Ovid Metamorphoses 8.842—878 (Erysichthon); 9.669-713 (Iphis & Ianthe)

 

MetEng Book 9

 

OVID REPORT 4 - Remedia Amoris  + Heroides 8: Hermione to Orestes

T  2-2

Introduction to Ovid and dactylic hexameter meter

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.1-4 Prologue; MetEng  Intro pp. xii-xxxix + Book 1

T 3-29

&

Th 3-31

 

 

*feriae vernales*

Th 2-4

GUEST SPEAKER

T 4-5

Ovid Metamorphoses 9.714-797 (Iphis & Ianthe) ; 10.1-31 (Orpheus & Eurydice)

 

Fantham Chapter 7

T  2-9

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.89-150 (The Four Ages of Man)

 

Fantham Chapter 1

4 Ages and other book plates from 1703 edition of Ovid

Th 4-7

Ovid Metamorphoses 10.32-63 (Orpheus & Eurydice)

Ovid Metamorphoses 10.243-297 (Pygmalion)

 

MetEng Book 10

 

Th 2-11

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.452-509 (Daphne & Apollo)

 

Fantham Chapter 2

 

F 4-8

EXAM 2

Arrange to come by my office anytime  before 5 PM and take the exam

 

 

T 2-16

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.510-567 (Daphne & Apollo)

 

MetEng Book 2

T 4-12

Ovid Metamorphoses 11.85-193 (Midas)

 

Fantham Chapter 8

 

ARTICLE REPORT  4

Th 2-18

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.568-639 (Jupiter & Io)

 

Fantham Chapter 3

 

Th 4-14

Ovid Metamorphoses 11.749-795 (Aesacus & Hesperia); 15.871-879 (Epilogue – Your book erroneously lists this as belonging to Book 11)

Ovid Fasti 2.685-730 (Tarquin & Lucretia)

 

MetEng Book 11

 

OVID REPORT 5 - Heroides 7: Dido to Aeneas + Heroides 16 & 17: Paris to Helen/Helen to Paris

T 2-23

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.640-712 (Jupiter & Io)

 

Fantham Chapter 4

 

OVID REPORT 1 – Ars Amatoria 1 +  Heroides 1: Penelope to Ulysses

T 4-19

Ovid Fasti 2.731-824 (Tarquin & Lucretia)

 

Fantham Chapter 9

 

ART ICLE REPORT 3

Th 2-25

 

 

Ovid Metamorphoses 1.713-746 (Jupiter & Io); 3.138-185 (Actaeon)

 

MetEng Book 3

 

ARTICLE REPORT 8

Th 4-21

Ovid Fasti 2.825-852 (Tarquin & Lucretia); Fasti 4.807-862 (The Founding of Rome)

MetEng Book 12

OVID REPORT 6 - Heroides 9: Deianira to Hercules + Heroides 18 & 19: Leander to Hero/Hero to Leander

T 3-1

Ovid Metamorphoses 3.186-252 (Actaeon); 3.316-338 (Tiresias); 3.339-401 (Echo & Narcissus)

 

Fantham Chapter 5

T 4-26

Ovid Heroides 10.1-98 (Ariadne to Theseus)

 

MetEng Book 13

 

ARTICLE  REPORT  2

Th 3-3

Ovid Metamorphoses 3.339-419 (Echo & Narcissus)

 

MetEng Book 4

 

 

Th 4-28

Ovid Heroides 10.99-150 (Ariadne to Theseus); Tristia 1.3.1-56 (The Final Night in Rome)

MetEng Book 14

 

OVID REPORT 7 – Ibis & Medicamina faciei femineae  (see Loeb translation) + Heroides 12: Medea to Jason

F 3-4

EXAM 1

Arrange to come by my office anytime  before 5 PM and take the exam in LT 1107

 

T  5-3

Ovid Tristia 1.3.57-102 (The Final Night in Rome); Epistulae ex Ponto 1.4 all (To his Wife);

MetEng Book 15

 

ARTICLE REPORT 1

T 3-8

Ovid Metamorphoses 3.420-510 (Echo & Narcissus),

MetEng Book 5

 

OVID REPORT 2 - Ars Amatoria 2 + Heroides 3: Briseis to Achilles

T h 5-5

Ovid Amores 1.4 all (Advice to his Mistress); 2.2.1-34 (Advice to his MistressŐ Slave)

 

Fantham Chapter 10

 

OVID REPORT 8 – Tristia + Heroides 15: Sappho to Phaon

Th 3-10

Ovid Metamorphoses 4.55-144 (Pyramus & Thisbe) 169-189 (Mars & Venus); 6.70-102(Arachne)

 

MetEng Book 6

ARTICLE REPORT 7

T 5-10

Ovid Amores 2.2.35-66 (Advice to his MistressŐ Slave); Amores 2.19 all (Advice to his MistressŐ Husband)

T 3-15

Ovid Metamorphoses 4.145-168 (Pyramus & Thisbe); 4.169-189 (Mars & Venus); 6.70-102 (Arachne)

MetEng Book 7

OVID REPORT 3 Ars Amatoria 3 + Heroides 4: Phaedra to Hippolytus

TBA

 

ART REPORTS -  All 8 to be delivered on a final exam day TBD

 

 

Th 3-17

Ovid Metamorphoses 6.103-145 (Arachne); 6.313-357 (Latona)

 

Fantham Chapter 6

 

ARTICLE REPORT 6

TBA

Term Papers due by 5 PM at my office

F 3-18

RESEARCH PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE BY END OF WORKDAY