Required texts:
Cicero, De Amicitia, ed. Gould and Whitely ($25)
Cicero, Selected Letters, ed. Shackleton-Bailey ($35)
Latin: How to Read It Fluently, Dexter Hoyos ($10)

Goals for the semester:
Cicero maintained relationships with important contemporaries, from Caesar and Pompey to Brutus, Atticus, and Caelius. He was a good and loyal friend; his theories on how friendship should work are therefore still relevant. In this course, we will read Cicero's treatise On Friendship (De Amicitia) along with a selection of letters illuminating Cicero's conduct of his own friendships.

We will look particularly closely at the sections of the De Amicitia that have just been added to the College Board's AP Latin Literature syllabus (17-23 and 100-104), but we will read the dialogue as a whole and will situate it in the context of Cicero's life and work. In particular, we will consider the philosophical side of Cicero, who is nowadays more often studied primarily as an orator and a politician.

All readings will be in Latin.

Workload and grading:
You will have reading assignments in Latin for each class, typically 4-6 pages. You will write three short papers, of about 1000-1500 words each. There will be a final exam.

The grades will be computed as follows:

General policies:
Attendance in class is required. Thoughtful discussion and group practice are part of the work of this class, and homework assignments will often 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 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").

Please note that except in the most extraordinary circumstances, I will not give "incomplete" grades.  As you know, an Incomplete means that you did not complete the work of the course, and it is the policy of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering that incomplete work must be completed within six weeks of the beginning of the next semester.

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

Selected bibliography:
Because this is a graduate-level class, the bibliography is not restricted to materials in English. Call numbers are given for books that are in Tisch, but books outside our collection are also useful.
von Albrecht, Michael. A History of Roman Literature. Leiden: 1997. PA6007.A5513 1997
----------. Cicero's Style: a synopsis followed by selected analytic studies. Leiden: 2003. PA6357.A54 2003
Bellinciono, Maria. Struttura e pensiero del Laelius ciceroniano. Brescia: 1970.
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
Boissier, Gaston. Cicéron et ses amis. Paris: 1899. DG260.C53 B6a
Brunt, P. A. The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays. Oxford: 1988. DG254.B78 1988
Clark, A. C. Cicero: Orationes. Oxford: 1956. PA6105.S8 C42 1956
Conte, Gian Biaggio. Latin Literature: A History. Baltimore: 1994. PA6008.C6613 1994
Dugas, Ludovic. L'Amitié antique d' après les moeurs populaires et les théories des philosophes. Paris: 1894.
Fitzgerald, John T., ed. Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship. Atlanta: 1997. BJ 1533.F8 G63 1997
Hadas, Moses. A History of Rome. London: 1958. DG207.A1 H3 1958
Hellegouarc'h, Joseph. Le vocabulaire latin des relations et des partis politiques sous la République. Paris: 1963.
Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition. New York: 1949. PN883 .H5
Johnston, Harold W. Selected Orations and Letters of Cicero. Chicago: 1910. PA6279.A4 J6
Konstan, David. Friendship in the Classical World. Cambridge: 1997. BF575.F66 K66 1997
Krostenko, Brian A. Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance. Chicago: 2001. PA6350.K76 2001
Pizzolato, Luigi. L' idea di amicizia nel mondo antico classico e cristiano. Turin: 1993.
Poncelet, Roland. Cicéon traducteur de Platon: l'expression de la pensée complexe en latine classique. Paris: 1957.
Radford, Robert. Cicero: a study in the origins of republican philosophy. Amsterdam: 2002.
Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine. Upper Saddle River: 1996. N5760.R36 1996
Rawson, Beryl. The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero. Sydney: 1978.
Reynolds, L. D., and Nigel Wilson. Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford: 1968. Z40.R4
Ross, David O. Style and Tradition in Catullus. Cambridge: 1969. PA6276.R57
Ruch, Erwin. Das Prooemium von Ciceros Laelius de amicita. Strassburg: 1943.
Shackleton Bailey, D. R. Cicero. New York: 1972. DG260.C5 B27 1972
Steinmetz, Fritz-Arthur. Die Freundschaftslehre des Panaitos. Nach einer Analyse von Ciceros Laelius de amicitia. Wiesbaden: 1967.
Syme, Ronald. The Roman Revolution. Oxford: 1962. DG254.S9 1962
Taylor, Lily Ross. Party Politics in the Age of Caesar. Berkeley: 1949. DG81.T38 1961
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
How to cite ancient sources
How to prepare a reading assignment: basic advice on gaining fluency.
The Art of Reading Latin, an essay on reading like a Roman rather than "decoding."
Overview of Latin Syntax
Perseus: a digital library with an extensive collection on classical Rome
Roman Sites: immense collection of links on ancient Rome