CL104/EN304

final exam

fall 2008

1.Read a text which you have not yet read drawn from the following list :

a. Cato the Elder, on agriculture, chapters 1-162 h. Vergil, Georgics, books 1-2 (a different translation)

b. Plautus, Amphitryon i. Horace, Epodes and Odes, book 4

c. Aulularia (The Pot of Gold) (a different translation) j. Tibullus, book 2 and Propertius, book 4

d. Terence, Heauton Timoroumenos k. Ovid, Heroides

e. Sallust,  The Conspiracy of Catiline l. Ovid, Fasti, books 1-2

f. Julius Caesar, commentaries on the civil war, books 1-2 m. Tacitus, Germania (a different translation)

g. Cicero, Laelius (On Friendship) n. Pliny the Younger, selections from books 1-4 (nos. 1-45 at this link)

2. Write an article, such as one would find in an academic history of Latin literature, on the text you have chosen. The article will include :

a. the date of the text (if it is known)

b. a summary of the contents of the text

c. a description of how the author approaches his material

d. an account of the stylistic traits characteristic of the text

e. a discussion of the the place of the text in the author’s work as a whole, such as we know it from this course

f. a similar discussion of the place of the text in the history of Roman literature, such as we know it from this course

g. other observations on the text which you consider important

Your article should be no longer than five pages, typewritten double-spaced (approximately 1,500 words maximum). Send your article in the form of a Word docuemnt attached to an e-mail sent to rosivach@mail.fairfield.edu before 4 :00 pm on December 18, 2008. Write you name and e-mail addreess at the top of the document. At the bottom of the document write the follow : I affirm that I have read completely the text that is the subject of this article.