CL104/EN204 Masterpieces of Roman Literature in English Translation (part I) [link to part II]
Professor Rosivach syllabus midterm
September
4: introduction/overview of Roman history
no assignment
Terence, Adelphoe (Brothers) [another version of the same]
Plautus, Menaechmi [another
version of the same]
Plautus, Curculio [another
version of the same]
September 17: Romantic primitivism
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline, chapters 1-13
Vergil,
Bucolics (Eclogues), 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 [trans. A. S. Kline]
Livy, Roman History, preface and book 1
September
24: the major historians
Julius Caesar, Commenatries on the Gallic Wars, book 1 [map of Gaul]
Livy, Roman History, book 21
Tacitus,
Annals, book 14 (and
the rest)
Tacitus, Annals, book 15 (and the rest)
Vergil, Aeneid, books 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 [trans. A. S. Kline 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12]
Cicero:
speech
on
the Manilian law [another
version of the same]
First Catilinarian [another version of the same]
Second Philippic [another version of the same]
speech for Caelius [another version of the same]
October 15: Philosophy, Roman Style
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, book 1, verses 1-482; book 2, verses 1-135; book 3, verses 417-1094 book 4, verses 1045-1297; book 5, verses 1-495; book 6, verses 1087-1286
Cicero, Cato (on Old Age)
Seneca, letters 28, 44, 5, 7, 80, 18, 107, 33, 43, 47, 63, 4
no other assignment
