Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30 - 10:20 (block C), room TBA
Dr. Anne Mahoney
Office: Eaton 326, 627-2439; office hours for students Monday 10:30 - 12:00, Tuesday 11:30 - 1:00. I am on campus every day and can always be reached by email: anne.mahoney@tufts.edu
Resources
Goals for the semester
Workload, grading, and schedule
General policies
Assignments by class
Selected bibliography

Required texts and suggested translations:
Plautus, Four Comedies, trans. Erich Segal. (We will read Menaechmi.)
Sallust, Catiline's Conspiracy, trans. S. A. Handford
Cicero, orations against Catiline, against Marc Antony (Philippics), for Marcus Caelius Rufus
Caesar, Civil War, trans. Jane Gardner
Catullus, poems, trans. Guy Lee
Virgil, Aeneid, trans. Richard Caldwell.
Golden Prose, trans. Paul Alessi (We will read selections from Cicero, Livy, and Augustus).
Golden Verses, trans. Paul Alessi (We will read selections from Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Sulpicia, and Ovid).
Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Rolfe Humphries
Ovid, Amores and Ars Amatoria, trans. Rolfe Humphries
Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, trans. Catharine Edwards
Juvenal, Satires, trans. Niall Rudd
Lucan, Civil War, trans. Susan Braund
Tacitus, Annals book 1, trans. A. J. Woodman

The suggested translations are available in the University Bookstore. Additional translations of most of these works are available in the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu), and translations are also available in the Tisch Library. You may use any translation of these texts, into English or into any other language you can read fluently. Students who can read Latin are warmly encouraged to read as much as possible of the syllabus in the original language.

Other resources:
Course web page: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/~amahoney/cl32_s06.html
Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Goals for the semester:
What is the point of literature when the whole world is falling apart? Should literature serve political goals? How does it help develop a national identity or a feeling of community? Does government patronage affect what a creative author writes? When free speech is curtailed, can imaginative literature flourish?

All of these were live issues for Roman authors of the classical period. In this course, we will survey classical Roman literature with particular attention to the literary reactions to the hundred years of near civil war in the second and first centuries BC. This protracted social crisis left traces not only in contemporary writings but in the work of authors who were not even born until decades or generations later.

We will also consider how authors respond to each other, how literary genres and styles evolve, and how fiction and fact interact.

All readings will be English translations of Latin originals, though students are encouraged to read as much as possible in Latin.

The class has no pre-requisites and assumes no prior knowledge of Roman history, literature, or culture, or of the Latin language.

Workload, grading, and schedule:
You will have reading assignments for each class, roughly 500 pages a week. You will have short written assignments roughly every other week, of about 500 words. There will be a two-hour final exam.

The grades will be computed as follows:

General policies:
You should complete the reading assigned for each class before that day's class; read the entire text before the first class in which it is to be discussed. You should bring the text to class, and you will probably want to bring your notes on the reading assignments.

Attendance in class is required. Thoughtful discussion is part of the work of this class, and written assignments will build on class work. On the other hand, if you must occasionally miss class for a legitimate reason, I will assume you can get notes from a classmate and keep up with the work.

I am happy to read drafts of papers as you work on them, or to answer questions about assignments. You may not re-write and re-submit assigned papers; the final copy is due on the scheduled due date, and will be graded.

I call your attention to University policy against plagiarism and other forms of cheating.  Please refer to the Bulletin of Tufts University for details (under the heading "Academic Ethics"). Within these guidelines, however, you are encouraged to discuss your work with each other.

Please note that except in the most extraordinary circumstances, I will not give "incomplete" grades.

No extra credit work is permitted, and grades in this course are not "curved."

Topics and reading assignments by class:
See also suggested readings in Latin, for those who know the language.
1. --- Friday, 20 January 2006. Introduction
2. --- Tuesday, 24 January. Roman literary history: the basics; see chronology.
3. --- Wednesday, 25 January. Plautus: Menaechmi
4. --- Friday, 27 January. Menaechmi
5. --- Tuesday, 31 January. The Gracchi. The letter attributed to Cornelia.
6. --- Wednesday, 1 February. Sallust: Catiline
7. --- Friday, 3 February. First assignment due. Cicero: Speeches against Catiline; recording of the opening of the first one (at 1:27:46 in the program), with "translation," from A Prairie Home Companion
8. --- Tuesday, 7 February. Cicero: selected letters (from Alessi Prose).
9. --- Wednesday, 8 February. Cicero: for Marcus Caelius Rufus
10. --- Friday, 10 February. Cicero: First Philippic
11. --- Tuesday, 14 February. Caesar: Civil War
12. --- Wednesday, 15 February. Catullus
13. --- Friday, 17 February. Second assignment due. Catullus.
14. --- Tuesday, 21 February. Catullus.
15. --- Wednesday, 22 February. Peace and the principate
16. --- Friday, 24 February. Horace: odes (from Alessi Verse).
17. --- Tuesday, 28 February. Horace: satires
18. --- Wednesday, 1 March. Virgil: Aeneid
19. --- Friday, 3 March. Third assignment due. Virgil.
20. --- Tuesday, 7 March. Virgil
21. --- Wednesday, 8 March. Livy: History book 1
22. --- Friday, 10 March. Love elegy: Tibullus.
23. --- Tuesday, 14 March. Propertius; Sulpicia and other minor poets.
24. --- Wednesday, 15 March. Fourth assignment due. Ovid: Amores
25. --- Friday, 17 March. Class cancelled for CANE annual meeting.
26. --- Tuesday, 28 March. Ovid: Ars Amatoria
27. --- Wednesday, 29 March. Ovid: Metamorphoses
28. --- Friday, 31 March. Fifth assignment due. Metamorphoses
29. --- Tuesday, 4 April. Metamorphoses
30. --- Wednesday, 5 April. Augustus: Res Gestae
31. --- Friday, 7 April. History: the Julio-Claudians and afterwards.
32. --- Tuesday, 11 April. Suetonius: Julius Caesar
33. --- Wednesday, 12 April. Suetonius: Augustus.
34. --- Friday, 14 April. Sixth assignment due. Suetonius: Caligula.
35. --- Tuesday, 18 April. Lucan: Civil War (Pharsalia).
36. --- Wednesday, 19 April. Lucan
37. --- Friday, 21 April. Lucan
38. --- Tuesday, 25 April. Juvenal: Satires.
39. --- Wednesday, 26 April. Tacitus: Annales book 1
40. --- Friday, 28 April. Review and summary.
41. --- Final exam

Selected bibliography:
This bibliography is limited to books in English that are available in Tisch Library.

Class texts, various translations.
Alexander, Sidney. The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace. Princeton: 1999. PA6394.A54 1999
Berg, Deena, and Douglass Parker. Five Comedies: Plautus and Terence. Indianapolis: 1999. PA6165.F58 1999
Brunt, P. R., and J. M. Moore. Res Gestae Divi Augusti. London: 1976. DG279.A4 1967 (Latin and English)
Carne-Ross, D. S., and Kenneth Haynes. Horace in English. London: 1996. PA6394.A2 1996
Cicero, M. Tullius. Basic Works, various translators. New York: 1951. PA6278.A4 H29
Duckworth, George E. The Complete Roman Drama. New York: 1942. PA6165.D8
Ferry, David. The Odes of Horace. New York: 1997. PA6395.F47 1997 (Latin and English)
Golding, Arthur. Metamorphoses. New York: 1965. PA6522.M2 G6 1965 (original 1567)
Green, Peter. The Sixteen Satires of Juvenal. London: 1998. PA6447.E5 G7 1998
Handford, S. A. The Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline (Sallust). Baltimore: 1963. DG207.S4 H3
Humphries, Rolfe. The Aeneid. New York: 1951. PA6807.A5 H8
Humphries, Rolfe. Metamorphoses. Bloomington: 1955. PA6522.M2 H8
Joyce, Jane Wilson. Pharsalia (Lucan). Ithaca: 1993. PA6479.E5 J686 1993
Knight, W. F. Jackson. The Aeneid. Harmondsworth: 1956. PA6807.A5 K6
Lee, Guy. The Poems of Catullus. Oxford: 1990. PA6275.E5 L44 1990
Lee, Guy. The Elegies of Tibullus. Liverpool: 1982. PA6788.E5 L4 1982 (Latin and English)
Lee, Guy. The Amores of Ovid. New York: 1968. PA6519.A7 1968
Miller, Frank Justus. Metamorphoses. Cambridge: 1971. PA6522.M5 M6 (Latin and English)
Mitchell, Jane. The Civil War (Caesar). Harmondsworth: 1976. DG266.C42 1976
de Sélincourt, Aubrey. The Early History of Rome (Livy books 1-5). Harmondsworth: 1960. DG207.L5 S4 1971
Shackleton Bailey, D. R. Cicero: Letters to Atticus. Cambridge: 1999. PA6308.E6 B3 1999
Shackleton Bailey, D. R. Cicero: Letters to Friends. Cambridge: 2001. PA6308.E5 S45 2001
Slavitt, David R. Propertius in Love. Berkeley: 2002. PA6645.E5 S58 2002
Thomson, Alexander. Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Philadelphia: 1889. DG277.S7 R3

Class texts, Latin.
Barber, E. A. Propertii Carmina. Oxford: 1960. PA6105.S8 P8 1960
Clark, A. C. Cicero: Orationes. Oxford: 1956. PA6105.S8 C42 1956
Du Pontet, Renatus. C. Iuli Caesaris Commentarii. Oxford: 1900. PA6235.A2 1900
Ehrenberg, Victor. Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. Oxford: 1955. PA3416.Z5 H5 1955
Gaisser, Julia Haig, and Davina McClain. Livy, book 1. Bryn Mawr: 2000. PA6452.B1 G342 2000
Garrison, Daniel. The Student's Catullus. Norman: 1989. PA6276.G37 1989
Goodyear, Francis David. Tacitus: Annales books 1-6. Cambridge: 1972. PA6705.A9 G6
Housman, A. E. Belli civilis libri decem (Lucan). Oxford: 1958. PA6478.A2 1958
Johnston, Harold W. Selected Orations and Letters of Cicero. Chicago: 1910. PA6279.A4 J6
Kenney, E. J. Amores, Ars Amatoria, etc.. Oxford: 1961. PA6105.S8 O89
Kirkland, James H. Horace: Epistles and Satires. Boston: 1893. PA6393.A4 1893
Lindsay, W. M. T. Macci Plauti Comoediae. Oxford: 1963. PA6105.S8 P6 1963
Lord, John K. Livy, book 1. Boston: 1904. PA6452.A3
Pike, Joseph B. De Vita Caesarum libri 3-6. Boston: 1903. PA6700.A33 P6
Ramsey, J. T. Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. Chico: 1984. PA6653.A4 R35 1984
Smith, Kirby Flower. The Elegies of Albius Tibullus. New York: 1913. PA6787.A3 1913
Thomson, D. F. S. Catullus. Toronto: 1997. PA6276.T49 1997
Virgil. Aeneid. Oxford: 1930. PA6801.A5 1930
Westcott, John Howell, and Edwin Moore Rankin. De Vita Caesarum libri 1-2. Boston: 1918. PA6700.A2 W3

Background on Roman literature, language, history, and culture.
von Albrecht, Michael. A History of Roman Literature. Leiden: 1997. PA6007.A5513 1997
Barchiesi, Alessandro. The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse. Berkeley: 1997. PA6537.B28 1997
Boardman, John, ed. The Oxford History of Classical Art. New York: 1993. N5610.O84 2001
Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray. The Oxford History of the Classical World Oxford: 1986. DE59.O94 1986
Boyle, A. J., ed. Roman Epic. London: 1993. PA6054.R65 1993
Brown, Sarah Annes. The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes. New York: 1999. PR127.B76 1999
Conte, Gian Biaggio. Latin Literature: A History. Baltimore: 1994. PA6008.C6613 1994
Duckworth, George E. The Nature of Roman Comedy. Princeton: 1952. PA6069.D8
Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: 1993. PA6276.G35 1993
Hadas, Moses. A History of Rome. London: 1958. DG207.A1 H3 1958
Hardie, Philip. The Epic Successors of Virgil. Cambridge: 1993. PA6054.H28 1993
Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition. New York: 1949. PN883 .H5
Highet, Gilbert. Poets in a Landscape. New York: 1957. PA6047 .H5
Hinds, Stephen. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry. Cambridge: 1998. PA6047.H56 1998
Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine. Upper Saddle River: 1996. N5760.R36 1996
Reynolds, L. D., and Nigel Wilson. Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford: 1968. Z40.R4
Scullard, H. H. From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68. London: 1963. DG254.S35 1963
Syme, Ronald. The Roman Revolution. Oxford: 1962. DG254.S9 1962
Trollope, Anthony. The Life of Cicero. New York: 1881. DG260.C5 T8
Vasaly, Ann. Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory. Berkeley: 1993. PA6285.V37 1993

On-line resources
Chronology of events and people relevant to the semester's work
How to cite ancient sources
Perseus: a digital library with an extensive collection on classical Rome
Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Roman Sites: immense collection of links on ancient Rome
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
De Imperatoribus Romanis: on-line encyclopedia of the Roman emperors
American Philological Association (APA):  the professional association for classicists in the US
Classical Association of New England (CANE):  the professional association for classicists in New England
Tufts University Classics Department:  course descriptions and faculty listing