Latin 103 Spring 2011

Assignments (due on the day listed)

Monday March 28

• First class; introduction to Cicero, Clodia, and the Pro Caelio; in-class reading of portions of Cicero ad. fam. 5.2 (to Q. Metellus Celer)

Wednesday March 30

• Read Skinner Chapter 3 "Women and Wealth"
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §1-2 (these paragraphs are marked with § in the Bryn Mawr edition; they are the arabic numerals in the Austin edition)
• Various letters of Cicero in translation from Hejduk, Julia Dyson. Clodia: a sourcebook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Monday April 4

• Cicero, Pro Caelio §6-7

Wednesday April 6

• Read Skinner Chapter 1 "Cicero as a Biographical Source"
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §8-9

Monday April 11

• Read Skinner Chapter 2 "The Gens Claudia" and 4 "The Claudii Pulchri"
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §13, 18

Wednesday April 13

• Read Skinner Chapter 5 "The Metelli"; reading from Williams, Roman Homosexuality (available on eCommons)
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §20
• First Test

Monday April 18

• Read Skinner Chapter 6 "Palatine Medea"
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §30-31

Wednesday April 20

• Read Skinner Chapter 7 "Lesbia"
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §32-33

Monday April 25

• Read Austin's intro to the MSS of the pro Caelio (handout from his edition)
• If you're inclined to read more, Clark, Albert Curtis. Descent of Manuscripts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918 is available online: http://www.archive.org/details/descentofmanuscr02claruoft
• Cicero, Pro Caelio §34-35

Wednesday April 27

• Cicero, Pro Caelio §36-38

Monday May 2

• Cicero, Pro Caelio §48-49

Wednesday May 4

• Catullus 51

W. B. Yeats, The Scholars

Bald heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
Edit and annotate the lines
That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love's despair
To flatter beauty's ignorant ear.

All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?

Monday May 9

• Second Test; Catullus 50

Wednesday May 11

• Abstract of paper due
• Finish Catullus 50
• Read Catullus 5 and 7; if you're pressed for time, don't worry about scansion

Monday May 16

• Catullus 8 and 11

Wednesday May 18

• First draft of paper due
• Bring in your favorite love poem in English
• Read Catullus 43 and 86

Monday May 23

• Read Catullus 70, 72, 76
• Bring in corrected rough drafts

Wednesday May 25

• Read Catullus 83, 87, 92, 107, 109

Monday May 30 Memorial Day

Wednesday June 1

• Final draft of paper due
• Final Test