Latin 103 Assignments (assignments due on date listed)
- Monday April 1 Read Lawall, Introduction pp. i-ix and begin mastery of "assumed vocabulary" on pp. ix-xix
- Wednesday April 3 Translate through p. 33; read in English through the beginning of Trimachio's dinner (p. 38 in the Arrowsmith translation)
- Friday April 5 5-minute noun quiz and noun quiz answers. Translate through p. 51.
- Monday April 8 Verb quiz on present and future indicative and present subjunctive. Translate through p. 61.
- Wednesday April 10 Relative pronoun/interrogative adjective quiz. Translate through p. 71. Read intro to Petronius: A Handbook (.pdf on eCommons).
- Friday April 12 Translate through 85 (further if you can).
- Monday April 15 Quiz on Lawall's "Assumed Vocabulary." Translate through p. 99 (further if you can).
- Wednesday April 17 Read Niall Slater, "Reading the Satyrica," in Petronius: A Handbook (.pdf on eCommons). Translate through p. 109 "artificium numquam moritur."
- Friday April 19 Have read Suetonius' Life of Nero. Translate through p. 125 "si piscem praeterisset."
- Monday April 22 Test 1. Afterwards, we will sight-read.
- Wedneday April 24 Translate passage (47) on handout and continue with "Two Ghost Stories" on pp. 127ff. Try out the "wiki" on eCommons. Article titles due by Friday.
- Friday April 26 Find your article and post your name and its title on the eCommons "wiki." Continue with "Two Ghost Stories" (we finished on p. 135, so begin at 137).
- Monday April 29 Read Pliny Letter 7.27 (link to Perseus text here). Copy of the text and notes from Sherwin-White here.
- Wednesday May 1 Continue with Pliny Ep. 7.27.
- Friday May 3 Back to Petronius!
- Monday May 6 Article review due on the eCommons "wiki." Continue translating.
- Wednesday May 8 Continue with Petronius.
- Friday May 10 Finish the "Trimalchio's Tomb and Funeral" section.
- Monday May 13 Final paper topic due in class. Read as much of the Tactitus as you can (just chapters 18-19). If you didn't get a copy in class, I've put two on the bulletin board outside my office for you to take. Come prepared; you do not want to be reading this at sight.
- Wednesday May 15 Finish the Tacitus 16.18-19.
- Friday May 17 Test 2, including the additional Petronius I gave you on the handout (a bit of chapter 47), the Petronius in the Lawall edition from pp. 127-205 ("Two Ghost Stories" and "Trimalchio's Tomb and Funeral"), Pliny Letter 7.27 (#30 in the Sherwin-White Commentary, and Tacitus Annals 16.18-19
- Monday May 20 Read the portion of the Annals in translation (handed out on Wednesday) and continue with the widow of Ephesus story.
- Wednesday May 22 Draft of final paper due (bring 2 copies to class). We will finish the widow of Ephesus in class and move on to the Death of Lichas passage in Lawall; prepare these.
- Friday May 24 Bring edited papers to class; pick 4 suicides in the Tacitus handout that you would discuss in a paper if you were writing one...Petronius' must be one of these. Are there qualities in the suicide of Petronius as described by Tacitus that incline you to believe or doubt that this Petronius is the author of the Satyricon? Finish the Lawall edition!
- Monday May 27 (Holiday)
- Wednesday May 29 If you did not reexchange rough drafts on Friday, you may still do so today. Begin reading the "Polyaenos and Circe" handout given out on Friday; if you didn't get one, there are extras in the library.
- Friday May 31 Test 3, including the "widow of Ephesus" and selections that follow it in Lawall, and the portion of the "Polyaenos and Circe" that we read in class on Wednesday.
- Monday June 3 Final papers due
- Wednesday June 5 Continue with the "Polyaenos and Circe" handout
- Friday June 7