Sunoikisis Latin 294/394: Latin Literature from 70-180 CE
Seminar Agenda, June 11-13, 2006
Faculty Consultant: Cynthia Damon, Amherst
Course Director: Holly Sypniewski, Millsaps College
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Seminar Participants:
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Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College
Miriam Carlisle, Washington and Lee University
Owen Cramer, Colorado College
Cynthia Damon, Amherst College, Special Guest Lecturer at Colorado College
Hal Haskell, Southwestern University
Anne Leen, Furman University
Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College
Mary McHugh, Hamilton College
Sonia Sabnis, Reed College
David Sick, Rhodes College
Holly Sypniewski, Millsaps College
Schedule of Assigned Readings with Links to Texts
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday |
**Please note the files are in pdf format. You will need the latest version of Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which you can get from the Adobe Acrobat Reader Download Site.
Also, some of the longer readings are split into two files. For any questions, contact
Rebecca Davis, rdavis@colleges.org**
For all the readings below, participants are assigned as primary (marked with
1) or secondary readers (marked with 2). Primary readers are responsible for
presenting the assigned reading to the group. Secondary readers should back
them up when necessary. Please try to do all the readings, if possible, even if
they are not your assignment. Everyone should also read all of the primary
texts.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
7:00-7:45 AM Breakfast
8:30-10:00
AM
10:00-10:30
Session 1: General Introductions, Overview, and
Feedback
• Introductions
• Seminar Goals
Break
AM
10:30 AM12:00 PM
12:00-1:00
PM
1:30-3:00 PM
Session 2: Historical Background
Suetonius’ Lives of Vespasian, Titus, Domitian (in English, all
responsible) (links to online text)
Dio, Roman History, epitomes of books 65-72 (in English, all
responsible)
• transcribed from the Loeb, Harvard University
Press, 1914 thru 1927. Translation by Earnest Cary:
65, 66, 67, 68 , 69, 70, 71, 72 (links to online text)
Aelius Aristides, To Rome (on the state of the world in
Antonine Rome, 143 AD) (in English, all responsible) text
Goodman, Martin. The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180. London
1997. pp. 58-75. (all responsible) text
Tacitus, Histories 1.1-3 (characterization of the Flavian
period) (396 words) (in Latin, all responsible) (from C.
Damon. Histories 1 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics).
Cambridge 2003.) text and commentary
Lunch
Sessions 3-4: The Ever-present Past
Readings in Latin (all responsible):
Statius, Thebaid (epic) 1.1-45 (proem 277 words),
wrestling match 6.826-910 (543 words), final scene and
sphragis 12.752-819 (458 words). (epic) (from ShackletonBailey’s Loeb)
Juvenal Satire 1 (1125 words) (satire) (from S. M. Braund.
Juvenal, Satires Book 1. (Cambridge Greek and Latin
Classics) Cambridge 1996.) text and commentary
Tacitus, Agricola 1-3 (387 words) (from R. M. Ogilvie and I.
Richmond. Cornelii Taciti De Vita Agricolae. Oxford 1967.)
text and commentary
Tacitus, Dialogus 1 (from C. E. Bennett. Dialogus de
Oratoribus. Boston, 1894.) (172 words) (oratory) text and
commentary
Scholarship:
Keith, Alison. “Ovidian Personae in Statius’s Thebaid.”
Arethusa 35 (2002) 381-402. text bibliography
• Boyd
• Carlisle
Lovatt, Helen. “The Wrestling.” In Statius and Epic Games:
Sport, Politics, and Poetics in the Thebaid. Cambridge 2005.
pp 193-241. text
• Cramer
• Sick
Braund, S. M. “Ending Epic, Statius, Theseus, and a Merciful
Release.” PCPS 42 (1996) 1-23. text
• Carlisle
• Boyd
Newlands, C. “Statius and Ovid: Transforming the
Landscape.” TAPA 134 (2004) 133-55. text
• Boyd
• Sypniewski
Kenney, E. J. “The First Satire of Juvenal.” PCPS 8 (1962) 2940. text
• Leen
• Sypniewski
Freudenburg, K. “Juvenal.” In Satires of Rome: Threatening
Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal. Cambridge 2001. ch. 3. text
• Sypniewski
• McHugh
3:00-3:30 PM
Break
3:30-5:30 PM
Session 4: The Ever-present Past (cont.)
See above for readings.
Dinner: Curriculum Discussion
6:00 PM
Monday, June 12, 2006
7:00-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00
AM
Sessions 5-8: The World’s Mirror, Or Is It?
Readings in Latin (all responsible):
Juvenal, Satire 3 (2157 words) (Rome; the genre of satire)
(from S. M. Braund. Juvenal, Satires Book 1. (Cambridge
Greek and Latin Classics) Cambridge 1996.) text and
commentary
Apuleius, Metamorphoses Book 1.1-21 (1st sentence) (3086
words) (from J. S. Ruebel. The Metamorphoses, Book 1.
Wauconda, Ill. 2000.) text and commentary
Scholarship:
Rimell, Victoria. “The Poor Man’s Feast: Juvenal.” In
Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge 2005.
pp. 81-94. text
1. Benefiel
2. Boyd
Anderson, W. S. “Anger in Juvenal and Seneca.” California
Studies in Classical Philology 19 (1964) 127-96. Reprinted
in Essays on Roman Satire. Princeton 1982. pp. 293-361.
text
1. Sick
2. Cramer
Baines , Victoria . “Umbricius’ Bellum Ciuile: Juvenal, Satire
3.” G&R 50 (2003) 220-37. text
1. Nice
2. Carlisle
Kenney, E. J. “In the Mill with Slaves: Lucius Looks back in
Gratitude” TAPA 133 (2003) 159-92. text
1. Sabnis
2. Benefiel
Tatum, James. “The Tales in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,”
TAPA 100 (1969) 487-527. text
1. Carl
2. Manwell
Harrison, S. J. “The Metamorphoses.” In Apuleius, a Latin
Sophist. Oxford 2000. pp. 210-259. text
1. Manwell
2. Sabnis
Hopkins, K. “Novel evidence for Roman slavery.” Past and
Present 138 (1993) 3-27. text
1. Benefiel
2. Haskell
Millar, Fergus. “The World of the Golden Ass.” JRS 71 (1981)
63-75. text
1. Sabnis
2. Manwell
10:00-10:30
AM
10:30 AM12:00 PM
Break
12:00-1:00
PM
1:30-3:00 PM
Lunch
3:00-3:30 PM
Break
3:30-5:30 PM
Session 8: The World’s Mirror, Or Is It? (cont.)
See above for readings.
6:00 PM
Dinner: Curriculum Discussion
Session 6: The World’s Mirror, Or Is It? (cont.)
See above for readings.
Session 7: The World’s Mirror, Or Is It? (cont.)
See above for readings.
Tuesday, June 13
7:00-7:45 AM Breakfast
8:30-10:00
AM
Sessions 9-10: Writers and Rulers
Readings in Latin (all responsible):
Tacitus, Annals 4.32-33 (on writing history), 4.34-35 (on a
historian’s trial) (651 words) (from R. H. Martin and A. J.
Woodman. Annals Book IV. (Cambridge Greek and Latin
Classics) Cambridge 1989.) text and commentary
Tacitus, Dialogus 1-5.4, 36.1-8 and 40.2-42.2 (on
Maternus’s poetry, 722 words, and highlights of Maternus’s
speech about politics and oratory, 282 + 449 words) (from
C. E. Bennett. Dialogus de Oratoribus. Boston, 1894.)
Statius, Silvae 4.3. (from K. M. Coleman. Silvae IV. Oxford
1988.) (Domitian’s new road). (160 hendecasyllables, 785
words) text and commentary
Scholarship:
McHugh, Mary R. “Historiography and Freedom of Speech:
The Case of Cremutius Cordus.” In I. Sluiter and R. Rosen,
eds., Free Speech in Antiquity. Leiden 2004. pp. 391-408.
text
1. Nice
2. Haskell
Woodman, A. J. “Book 4 of the Annals.” In Rhetoric in
Classical Historiography. London 1988. pp. 180-96. text
1. McHugh
2. Nice
Luce, T. J. “ Reading and Response in the Dialogus.” In T. J.
Luce and A. J. Woodman, eds., Tacitus and the Tacitean
Tradition. Princeton 1993. pp. 11-38. text
1. Haskell
2. Nice
Bartsch, Shadi. “Praise and Doublespeak: Tacitus’ Dialogus
and Juvenal’s Seventh Satire.” In Actors in the Audience.
Cambridge 1994. pp. 98-125. text
1. McHugh
2. Leen
Coleman, K. M. “Mythological Figures as Spokespersons in
Statius’ Siluae.” In F. de Angelis and S. Muth, eds., Im Spiegel
des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt – Lo specchio del
mito. Immaginario e realta. Wiesbaden 1999. pp. 67–80.
text
1. Carlisle
2. Boyd
Newlands, C. “Building the Imperial Highway: Silvae 4.3.” In
Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire. Cambridge 2002.
pp. 284-325. text
1. Leen
2. Carl
Dewar, M. “Laying It on with a Trowel: The Proem to Lucan
and Related Texts.” CQ 44 (1994) 199-211.text
1. Carlisle
2. Leen
10:00-10:30
AM
10:30 AM12:00 PM
Break
12:00-1:00
PM
1:30-3:00 PM
Lunch
3:00-3:30 PM
Break
3:30-5:30 PM
Session 12: Curriculum
6:30 PM
Dinner
Session 10: Writers and Rulers (cont.)
See above for readings.
Session 11: Curriculum