Syllabus/Daily Assignments for Classics 315/English 300C: Satire from Rome to Colbert – Binghamton University SUNY, Fall 2014 (Prof. John H. Starks, Jr.)

Readings are TO BE COMPLETED BY the date that they appear on the syllabus as they will constitute the principal material for that day's discussion. Papers and Oral Presentations are marked when they are due. Please check the syllabus on this web page often, every class day is preferable. I may update the syllabus frequently, adding upcoming illustrations, maps, resources, and discussion questions that you should consider as you read and prepare that material for class.

Abbreviations used on syllabus below for readings:

Apuleius = Walsh, trans. The Golden Ass (Oxford World’s Classics). Listed by book number and page numbers

Aristophanes = Roche, trans. Aristophanes. The Complete Plays (New American Library). Listed by play name and page numbers

CCRS = Freudenberg, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Listed by article author and title and page numbers

Hooley = Daniel M. Hooley. 2011. Roman Satire (Blackwell), SEE COURSE RESERVES. we will use page numbers for reference

Horace = Davie & Cowan, trans. Horace. Satires and Epistles (Oxford World’s Classics). Listed by satire book and poem number and page numbers

Lucian = Sidwell, trans. Lucian. Chattering Courtesans and other Sardonic Sketches (Penguin). Listed by satire/essay name and page numbers

Juvenal = Rudd, trans. Juvenal. The Satires (Oxford World’s Classics). Listed by satire number and page numbers

Petronius = Sullivan, trans. Petronius. The Satyricon; Seneca. Apocolocyntosis (Penguin). Listed by page numbers and chapter numbers

SatireCCL = Ogborn/Buckroyd. Satire (Cambridge Contexts in Literature). Listed by page number and/or modern English author name, excerpt title, and page numbers

Seneca = Sullivan, trans. Seneca. Apocolocyntosis, in Petronius. Satyricon. Listed by page numbers

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart also available next day on Hulu

The Colbert Report (ColbertNation.com) also available next day on Hulu

the Onion: America’s Finest News Source

Read some kind of ACTUAL news source, at least headline awareness – library subscribes to New York Times and Washington Post, plus they have free websites as long as you don’t read too many articles per month. Politico.com is great for political news. The major news networks have their own websites: CNN, MSNBC, Fox. I don’t care for aggregators on principle, but Huffington Post is probably one of the best, and most neutral

Date	Topic(s)	Assignments Satire Timeline
T 9-2	Defining, Confining, Refining Satire	SatireCCL 8-30 Aristophanes ix-xvii Hooley ‘Introduction’-see Course Reserves
Th 9-4	Jury Duty, WHAT a Pain in the Ass! (So’s Dad). And Strife’s a Bitch	Aristophanes Wasps 203-70
M 9-8 Th 9-12	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #1
T 9-9	Men Fucked Up. Women say “Fuck Them! Better Yet…DON’T”	Aristophanes Lysistrata 417-78 SatireCCL 98-109 ‘Critical Approaches to Satire’
Th 9-11	Diminishing Returns and Class Warfare	Aristophanes Wealth (Plutus) 665-715 SatireCCL 111-19 ‘Writing about Satire’
M 9-15 Th 9-18	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #2
T 9-16	Satire and Rome	CCRS – Freudenburg ‘Introduction’ 1-30; Habinek “Satire as Aristocratic Play” 177-91 Hooley ‘Beginnings’+‘Horace, pp. 28-32 only’ – see Course Reserves
Th 9-18	Rome is full of Greedy, Perverted, Hypocritical Bastards (Let me tell you!), but the Hicks in the Sticks Really Suck	Horace vii-xxviii, pp. 3-20 + notes (Satires 1.1-1.5) Hooley ‘Horace’ pp. 32-55 only – see Blackboard SatireCCL 31-38 – Chaucer and Skelton
T 9-23	Gluttons and Witches and Boors, oh my! And Snotty, Pompous, Wannabe Pols Can Bite Me	Horace pp. 20-38 + notes (Satires 1.6-2.2) Hooley ‘Horace’ pp. 55-75 only – see Course Reserves SatireCCL 38-46 – Jonson, Dryden, and Congreve
Th 9-25	*Rosh Hashanah*	Get a new calendar, blow shofar
T 9-30	Lessons Learned from a Preacher, a Chef, a Prophet, a Slave, Two Mice and a Snob	Horace pp. 38-61 + notes (Satires 2.3-2.8) Hooley ‘Horace’ pp. 75-84 only – see Course Reserves CCRS - Gowers “The Restless Companion” 48-61
Th 10-2	Scary Sexcapades and a Crazy Dinner Party with the Nouveaux Gauches	Petronius 11-30, 37-77+notes (ch. 1-62)
Sun 10-5	MODERN HORACE	3 pages due via Turn it-in in Blackboard by midnight
M 10-6 Th 10-9	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #3
T 10-7	No Taste for Dessert; Everybody’s after the Boy-Toy, One by Land and Two or Three by Sea	Petronius 77-120+notes (ch. 63-110) Hooley ‘Menippeans and After’– see Course Reserves MIDTERM EXAM TO BE POSTED
Th 10-9	CLASS GROUP TIME I am delivering a paper on Aristophanes and modern Egyptian comedy at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in Washington, D.C.	YOU are meeting during class time or an equivalent or greater amount of time outside class to work together on your Group Satire Idea and Draft Due Monday via Turn it-in in Blackboard
M 10-13		GROUP SATIRE IDEA AND DRAFT DUE via Turn it-in in Blackboard by midnight
T 10-14	Emperor Claudius is Dying to Be a Go(ur)d	Seneca 209-33+notes 234-42 CCRS - O’Gorman “Citation and Authority in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis” 95-108
Th 10-16	Shipwrecked, and Doomed to Epic Trials, Trial Epics, and More Sexploitation Guest Lecturer while I deliver a paper at another classics conference in Virginia	Petronius 120-160+notes (ch. 110-141) CCRS – Rimell “The Satiric Maze” 160-73
M 10-20 Th 10-23	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #4
T 10-21	I Must Write Satire to Deal with the Pervs, the City Stench, and the Assholes-in-Chief	Juvenal ix-xxxv, 3-36+notes 141-69 (Satires 1-5) SatireCCL 46-54 - Swift
Th 10-23	CLASS GROUP TIME I am delivering a series of three more papers on actresses in antiquity as the keynote speaker for the Classical Association of Minnesota	YOU are meeting during class time or an equivalent or greater amount of time outside class to work together on your Group Satire
M 10-27 Th 10-30	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #5
T 10-28	Women, Can’t Live with ‘em, Can’t Live with ‘em, and Don’t Get me Started on Eggheads	Juvenal 37-69+notes 169-90 (Satires 6-7) SatireCCL 54-61 – Pope and Hogarth
Th 10-30	What’s Birth Got to Do With It? Even Gigolos Hope for More. People Ask for the Moon, and They Just Need a Clue	Juvenal 70-106+notes 190-216 (Satires 8-11) SatireCCL 62-70 – Austen and Byron CCRS - Martindale “The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English” 284-98 Hooley ‘Juvenal’ – see Course Reserves
T 11-4	Parents Today! And Gold-Diggers, and Jar-Heads. Bunch of Cannibals! (NO, I’m serious, Cannibals)	Juvenal 107-39+notes 216-33 (Satires 12-16) CCRS – Rimell ‘The Poor Man’s Feast’ 81-94 SatireCCL 70-78 – Dickens and Clough
Th 11-6	Satire Unplugged and Disrobed	CCRS – Graf “Satire in a Ritual Context,” Barchiesi/Cucchiarelli “Satire and the Poet: The Body..,” Gunderson “The Libidinal Rhetoric of Satire” 192-240 SatireCCL 78-83 - Twain
T 11-11	Humans Do a Whole Lot of Getting That’s Not Worth a Damn	Lucian ix-xxiii, “Two Charges of Literary Assault” 9-30, “The Journey Down to Hades, or The Tyrant” 91-109
Th 11-13	Abstinence Only Counseling and What Prostitutes Do All Day	Lucian “Timon the Misanthrope” 110-132, “Chattering Courtesans” 155-89 SatireCCL 84-86, 92-94 – Cummings and Duffy
T 11-18	Praise Reappraised and the Art of Lying	Lucian “The Scythian” 193-201, “Praising a Fly” 249-53, “True Histories” 307-46
Th 11-20	Group Satire Day	Cause Whatever’s Worth Griping about Gets Worked out and up and over in Group Therapy
Sun 11-23
T 11-25	What a Witch!	Apuleius xi-xliii, 1-17+notes 241-44 (Book 1) SatireCCL 86-92 –Waugh and Heller
Th 11-27	*Thanksgiving*	Eat turkey (or tofurkey), fall asleep, talk to aunt, fall asleep, watch Lions game, fall asleep (or laugh – same result with the Lions)
M 12-1 Th 12-4	Daily Show/Colbert JOURNAL week #4	+ INDIVIDUAL SATIRE IDEA AND DRAFT – due M 12-1 via Turn it-in in Blackboard by midnight
T 12-2	MORE Witches, Mostly Dead, and Making an Ass of Oneself	Apuleius 18-79+notes 244-52 (Books 2-4)
Th 12-4	Cupid and Psyche, a Brat, and…BEARS!	Apuleius 80-137+notes 253-57 (Books 5-7)
F 12-5	MODERN LUCIAN	3 pages due via Turn it-in in Blackboard by midnight
T 12-9	Priestly Pervs and The Real Housewives of the Roman Empire	Apuleius 138-90+notes 258-63 (Books 8-9) CCRS - Kennedy “The ‘presence’ of Roman Satire” 299-308
W 12-10	MODERN PETRONIUS/APULEIUS	3 pages due via Turn it-in in Blackboard by midnight
Th 12-11	An ‘Adult’ Entertainment Gig and Lucius Stops being an Ass when He Gets Religion	Apuleius 191-240+notes 263-69 (Books 10-11) CCRS - Henderson “The Turnaround” 309-18
T 12-16	Final Oral/Individual Satire Presentations	3:15-5:15 PM in our classroom