CL104/EN204 Masterpieces of Roman Literature in English Translation (part II) [link to part I]

Professor Rosivach [final exam]

October 29: The Loves of the Poets

Valerius Aedituus, Porcius Licinius and Q. Lutatius Catulus

Catullus 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14,45, 48, 51, 58, 70, 72, 75, 76, 81, 83, 85,86, 87, 92, 96, 99, 107, 109 [version by A. S. Kline]

Tibullus book 1, poems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9; book 2, poems 3, 4

Sulpicia

Propertius book 1, poems 1-20 [version by A. S. Kline]

Ovid, Amores, book 1, poems 1 -9 [version by A. S. Kline]

The Art of Love, book 1, lines 1-398

November 5: lyric and elegiac poetry

Catullus 1, 4, 6, 13, 16, 21, 24, 27,28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 46, 49, 50, 57, 62, 63, 69, 78, 79, 93, 96, 101

Horace, odes (carmina), book 1, poems 1-38; book 2, poems 3, 7, 10, 14, 16, 20; book 3, poems 1, 2, 13, 18, 26, 30; book 4, poems 1, 7

from the appendix Vergiliana : moretum, copa

November 12: Ovid, Metamorphoses

book 1, book 2, book 3, book 13, book 14, book 15

November 19: Thinking About Roman Literature

no reading assignment

December 3: Lucan and the theater of Seneca

Lucan, Pharsalia, book 1, book 8

Seneca, The Trojan Women

Seneca, Phaedra

December 10: satire, epigram, and Petronius’ Satyricon

Horace, satires, book 1, satires 1, 4, 6, 9; book 2, satire 6 [scroll down to find the satires you want]

Juvenal, satires 1, 3, 10, 11

Martial, selected epigrams

Petronius, Satyricon 6-11, 30-34, 35-41