Sunoikisis Latin 392: Literature of the Late Republic
Seminar Agenda, June 6-8, 2004
Faculty Consultant: Joseph Farrell (U of Pennsylvania)
Course Director: Prof. Anne Leen (Furman University)
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Seminar Participants:
 Prof. Glenda Carl (Southwestern University)
 Prof. Hal Haskell (Southwestern University)
 Prof. Susanne Hofstra (Rhodes College)
 Prof. Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College)
 Prof. David Sick (Rhodes College)
 Prof. Walter Stevenson (University of Richmond)
 Prof. Holly Sypniewski (Millsaps College)
Schedule of Assigned Readings with Links to Texts
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday |
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.
Sunday, June 6: History and Time
7:30-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00
AM
Session: General Introductions, Overview, and
Feedback
 Introductions
 Review of the evolution of Sunoikisis and the
development of ICC’s
 Discussion of Campus Tutorial
 Discussion of the proposed modifications based
on feedback from students
10:00-10:30
AM
Break
McCombs
Residential
Center 131
ACS Tech Center
ACS Room 201
10:30 AM12:00 PM
ACS Tech Center
Session 2: What did Romans think about time?
 Maurizio Bettini, Anthropology And Roman
Culture: Kinship, Time, Images Of The
Soul (Baltimore 1991), part 2, “The Future at
Your Back”: Spatial Representations of Time in
Latin,” 113–93.
1. David Sick
2. Walt Stevenson
12:00-1:30
Lunch
PM
1:30-3:00 PM Session 3: What did Romans think about myth?
 Julia Haig Gaisser, “Threads in the Labyrinth:
Competing Views and Voices in Catullus
64,” AJP 116 (1995) 579–616.
1. Anne Leen
2. Holly Sypniewski
 Monica R. Gale, Myth and Poetry in
Lucretius (Cambridge 1994)
ch. 2, “The Cultural Background: Myth and
Belief in Late Republican Rome,” pp. 85–
98 and ch. 4, “Lucretius’ Theory of Myth,” pp.
129–55
1. Hal Haskell
2. Glenda Carl
McCombs Dining
3:00-3:30 PM Break
ACS Room 201
ACS Tech Center
3:30-5:30 PM Session 4: Readings
 Cicero, Brutus 1–38
1. Kenny Morrell
2. David Sick
 Cicero, Brutus 39–76
1. Hal Haskell
2. Holly Sypniewski
 Cicero, De Re Publica (Somnium Scipionis)
1. Susanne Hofstra
2. Glenda Carl
 Lucretius De Rerum Natura 1.1–482
1. Anne Leen
2. Walt Stevenson
 Catullus 1–3, 8, 11, 36, 46, 50–51, 76, 95, 113
1. Everyone Reads
ACS Tech Center
5:30-7:30 PM Dinner
McCombs
Residential
Center 131
Monday, June 7: Material Culture
7:00-8:15 Continental Breakfast
AM
8:30-10:00 Session 1: Places 1: Rome
AM
 L. S. Mazzolani, The Idea of the City in Roman
Thought: From Walled City to Spiritual
Commonwealth(Bloomington 1967) ch. 7, “From Sulla
to Augustus”
1. Susanne Hofstra
2. Holly Sypniewski
 Ann Vasaly, Representations: Images of the World in
Ciceronian Oratory (Berkeley 1993) Introduction,
“Theory and Practice,” pp. 1–14 and ch. 1, “Ambience,
Rhetoric, and the Meaning of Things,” pp. 15–39
1. Kenny Morrell
2. Anne Leen
McCombs
Residential
131
ACS Tech
Center
10:00Break
10:30 AM
10:30 AM- Session 2: Places 2: Travel
12:00 PM
 Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–
1900 (New York 1998), “Introduction: Towards a
Geography of Literature,” pp. 3–10 and ch.1, “The
Novel, the Nation-State,” pp. 11–73.
1. Glenda Carl
2. David Sick
 Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: Textual
Approaches to the City (Cambridge 1996); ch. 1, “The
City of Memories,” pp. 27–43 and ch. 5, “The City of
Exiles,” pp. 110–33
1. Walt Stevenson
2. Kenny Morrell
ACS Room
201
ACS Tech
Center
12:00-1:30 Lunch
PM
1:30-3:00 Session 3: Monuments
PM
 J. A. Hanson, Roman Theater Temples (Princeton
1959)
1. Hal Haskell
2. Susanne Hofstra
 Ann Kuttner, “Culture and History at Pompey’s
Museum,” TAPA 129 (1999) 343-73.
1. Holly Sypniewski
2. Kenny Morrell
McCombs
Dining
ACS Tech
Center
3:00-3:30 Break
PM
ACS Room
201
3:30-5:30 Session 4: Readings
PM
 Anonymous, Rhetorica ad Herennium 3.28–40
1. Walt Stevenson
2. Susanne Hofstra
 Cicero, De oratore 2.350–60
1. Anne Leen
2. Holly Sypniewski
 Cicero, De oratore 3.37–58
1. Glenda Carl
2. Hal Haskell
 Cicero, De oratore 3.59–81
1. David Sick
2. Kenny Morrell
 Catullus 4, 11, 37, 55
1. Everyone Reads
ACS Tech
Center
5:30-7:30 Dinner
PM
McCombs
Residential
131
Friday, June 4: Res Publica Litterarum
7:00-8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
McCombs
Residential 131
8:30-10:00
AM
ACS Tech Center
Session 1: Social Relations
 E. Rawson, Intellectual Life in the Late Roman
Republic (Baltimore 1985), ch. 1 “Romans and
Greeks: A Closer Acquaintanceship,” pp. 3–
18 and ch. 3, “Patterns of Intellectual Life,” pp.
38–53
1. Susanne Hofstra
2. Anne Leen
 T. Habinek, The Politics of Latin Literature:
Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient
Rome (Princeton 2001), Ch. 4, “Culture Wars in
the First Century B.C.E.”
1. Walt Stevenson
2. Holly Sypniewski
10:00-10:30
AM
Break
ACS Room 201
10:30 AM12:00 PM
ACS Tech Center
Session 2: Philosophizing
 David Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation
of Greek Wisdom (Cambridge 1998), ch. 1, “The
Empedoclean Opening,” pp. 1–34
1. Anne Leen
2. Glenda Carl
 Miriam Griffin, “Philosophy, Politics and
Politicians at Rome,” ch. 1, pp. 1–37 in Miriam
Griffin and Jonathan Barnes, eds. Philosophia
Togata I: Essays on Philosophy and Roman
Society (Oxford 1997)
1. Kenny Morrell
2. Holly Sypniewski
 David Sedley, “Philosophical Allegiance in the
Greco-Roman World,” ch. 4, pp. 97–119 in
Miriam Griffin and Jonathan Barnes,
eds. Philosophia Togata I: Essays on Philosophy
and Roman Society (Oxford 1997)
1. Anne Leen
2. Glenda Carl
 D. P. Fowler, “Lucretius and Politics,” ch. 5, pp.
120–50 in Miriam Griffin and Jonathan Barnes,
eds.Philosophia Togata I: Essays on Philosophy
and Roman Society (Oxford 1997)
1. Walt Stevenson
2. Hal Haskell
 P. A. Brunt, “Philosophy and Religion in the
Late Republic,” ch. 7, pp. 174–98 in Miriam
Griffin and Jonathan Barnes, eds. Philosophia
Togata I: Essays on Philosophy and Roman
Society (Oxford 1997)
1. Susanne Hofstra
2. David Sick
 Miriam T. Griffin, “Philosophical Badinage in
Cicero’s Letters to His Friends,” in Cicero the
Philosopher: Twelve Papers, ed. J. G. F. Powell
(Oxford 1995), pp. 325–46
1. Holly Sypniewski
2. Kenny Morrell
12:00-1:30
Lunch
McCombs Dining
PM
1:30-3:00 PM Session 3: Lecture Topics and Discussion Questions ACS Tech Center
3:00-3:30 PM Break
3:30-5:30 PM Session 4: Overview and Final Preparations
Discussion of the lecture topics and lecturers
Setting the calendar for examinations
6:00 PM
Dinner
ACS Room 201
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ACS Tech Center