LATIN III HONORS’ SYLLABUS 2014-2015
1 st SEMESTER
1 ST QUARTER
Week 1: Review active voice all conjugations/tenses and the five declensions, demonstrative, relative and
personal pronouns. Vocab Quiz #1 (Ch.1-8) & #2 (Ch.7-12); Births & Names
Week 2: Review passive voice for all conjugations; all participles and ablative absolute
Vocab Quiz #3 (Ch.13-17); Quiz #4 (Ch.18-22); The Salutatio
Test #1: Grammar Review
Week 3: Review infinitives & indirect statement
Introduce Subjunctive Mood (Wheelock Ch.28)
Vocab Quiz #5 (Ch.23-28); Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii
Translate Pliny the Younger: Letter concerning Eruption of Vesuvius
Week 4: Introduce Purpose Clauses & Wishes; Cupid and Psyche story
Translate Martial : 7.3 & 6.11; Isadore of Seville : “Origines” 5.30
Test #2: Vocab 1-20
Week 5: Imperfect Subjunctive & Result Clauses (Wheelock Ch.29)
Vocab Quiz #6 (Ch.20-29); Roman Education
Translate Catullus #7; Daphne and Apollo story
Week 6: Continue Ch.29 (Result Clauses); Roman Offices; Baucis and Philemon story
Translate Cicero “
Pro Cluentia” 51;
Martial 12.80 (“You’re All Wonderful”)
Test #3: Ch.28 &29
Week 7: Pf. & Plpf. Subjunctive; Indirect Questions: Sequence of Tenses (Wheelock Ch.30)
Vocab Quiz #7 (Ch.20-30); Coming of Age & Togas
Translate Cicero : Selections from Catalinarian Orations
Week 8: Continue Wheelock Ch.30 (Indirect Questions); Pyramus and Thisbe story
The Forum in Cicero’s Day
Test #4: Ch.30
Week 9: Cum Clauses & FERO (Wheelock Ch.31); Orpheus and Eurydice story
Vocab Quiz #8 (Ch.20-31); Roman Weddings
Translate Macrobius : Saturnalia 2.3
2 nd QUARTER
Week 1 Continue Ch.31
(Cum Clauses); Deucalion & Pyrrha story
Life and Writings of Catullus; Translate Catullus #5
Test #1: Ch.31
Week 2 Wheelock Ch.32: Adverbs (Comparison); VOLO/NOLO/MALO; Proviso Clauses
Vocab Quiz #9 (Ch.20-32); Julio-Claudians: Augustus ; The Life & Writings of Ovid
Translate Nepos “Cimon”; Pygmalion & Galatea story
Test #2: Vocab 20-32
Week 3: Continue Ch.32 (Proviso Clauses);Julio-Claudians: Tiberius
Translation: Petronius’ Satyricon (Werewolf passage); Echo & Narcissus story
Week 4: Test #3: Ch.32
Begin Conditions (Wheelock Ch.33); Zeus & Io story
Vocab Quiz #10 (Ch.20-33); Julio-Claudians: Caligula
Week 5: Continue Ch.33 (Conditions); Translation: Martial : 2.38 & 2.88; Catullus #13
Test #4: Ch.33
Week 6: Deponent Verbs: Pt.1 (Wheelock Ch.34): Pompeii
Vocab Quiz #10 (Ch.20-34); Special Deponent Vocab #1 & #2
Translate: Martial : 5.81; Quintilian : 1.1.23
Week 7: Deponent Verbs: Pt.2 (Wheelock Ch.34); The Roman Bath
Deponent Verb Quiz #3 & #4: Julio-Claudians: Claudius
Translate: Seneca: “Apocoloncyntosis”; Martial : 11.92 & 1.64; Catullus #51
Week 8: Test #5:Ch.34
The Julio-Claudians: Nero
Week 9: Test #6: The Julio-Claudians
Review for Semester Exams
Week 10: Semester Exams

3 RD QUARTER 2
Week 1: Special Uses of the Dative (Wheelock Ch.35); The Circus & Chariot Racing
ND SEMESTER
The Year of Four Emperors (69 AD)
Translate Ovid : Intro lines of the Metamorphosis
Week 2: Continue Ch.35 (Dative Uses); The Flavian Dynasty
Translate Cicero : “De Oratore” 2:276; Martial : 9.10 & 1.10
Test #1: Ch.35
Week 3: Jussive Noun Clauses/Indirect Commands (Wheelock Ch.36);
The Good Emperors (Part 1); The Amphitheater & Gladiatorial Fights
Translate Martial 1.16 & 9.81 & 1.63; Roman Funerals
Test #2:Vocab Ch.20-36
Week 4: Continue Ch.36 (Indirect Commands)
The Good Emperors (Part 2)
Translate Catullus #85
Test #3:Ch.36
Week 5 EO & Time/Place Constructions (Wheelock Ch.37);
From Commodus through the Severans (180-235 AD) ; Roman Priesthoods
Translate Martial 2.71: “Thanks but no thanks!”; Petronius Satyricon: “Trimalcio’s Epitath”
Week 6 Continue Ch.37
The Barracks Emperors (235-285 AD)
Translate Cicero : Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2.14
Test #4:Ch.37
Week 7 Review for AREA LATIN CONVENTION
The Tetrarchy (284-337 AD)
Week 8 Relative Clauses of Characteristic (Wheelock Ch.38); CULTURE: The Domus
The Decline & Fall of the Empire (337-476 AD)
Translate: Martial
: 14.194 “Note On A Book By Lucan”
Cicero 1)Oh, Give Me A Figgy Sprig” (De Orat. 2.278)
2)”The Most Pitiful Speech I’ve Ever Heard” (De Orat. Ibid)
Test #5: The Roman Empire
Week 9 Review for NLE
FOURTH QUARTER
Week 1 Wheelock 38 (continued) ;
Translate Two letters to Cicero
Tacitus
. 1)Pompey 2)Caesar
Annales XVI, 17 (Disturbance At The Pompeian Amphitheater)
Roman Architecture: The Italian House
Test #1:Ch.38
Week 2 Gerund & Gerundive (Wheelock Ch.39); CULTURE: Roman Clothing
Translate Catullus #70; Martial 1.13; Suetonius : Divus Julius I (description of Caesar)
Week 3 Wheelock Ch.39 (continued);
Translate Nepos : “Hannibal and the Beginning of the Second Punic War”
Tacitus : Germania III (The Germans Claim Two Greek Heroes)
Test #2: Ch.39
Week 4 Fear Clauses (Wheelock Ch.40) : Delphi & Pilgrims
Translate Virgil : Aeneid 1:254-282 (Jupiter’s Prophesy on the Future Glory of Rome)
Week 5 Fear Clauses (Wheelock Ch.40); Stoicism & Epicureanism
Translate: Cicero : Pro Archia 7.16 “The Value of Literature”
Livy : Ab Urbe Condita I.xxii-xxiii (Clash With the Albans)
Test #3: Ch.40
Week 6 Translate: Pliny Letters 1)Murder of Macedo by his slaves 2)Pliny’s ill slave Zosimus
Week 7 Translate : Ovid: Daedalus and Icarus
Ancient Rome: A Latin Student’s Tour
Week 8 Translate: Ovid : Pyramus and Thisbe
Week 9 Translate: Cicero : De Oratore (Demosthenes story) ;Tusculanae Disputationes (Dionysius stories)
Week 10 Review for Final Exam
FINAL EXAM