Virgil’s Aeneid
Program in Western Classical and Medieval Studies
Fall 2009
Two Credits
Bro. Nicholas Koss
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The importance of Virgil for Western culture becomes especially clear if one reads the
recently published work The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years.
edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C. J. Putnam (Yale UP, 2008; 1082 pp.)
Many parts of this book are devoted to The Aeneid, Virgil’s great epic. For a student
of Western culture, it is essential to have a good understanding of The Aeneid,
especially in its original Latin version. This course, opened to students who have
already had four semesters of Latin, will be based on having students read the selected
passages from Books I, II, IV, VI, X, and XII of The Aeneid in A Vergil Workbook.
SYLLABUS
Class One
Introduction
BOOK I (1-757)
Ch. 1 1-33
Class Two
Ch. 2 34-80
Ch. 3 81-131
Class Three
Ch. 4 132-179
Ch. 5 180-222
Class Four
Ch. 6 223-277
Ch. 7 278-324
Class Five
Ch. 8 325-386
Ch. 9 387-440
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Class Six
Examination One
Class Seven
Ch. 10 441-493
Ch. 11 494-519
Class Eight
BOOK II (1-804)
Ch. 12 1-56
Ch. 13 199-249
Ch. 14 250-297
Class Nine
Ch. 15 469-525
Ch. 16 526-566
Ch. 17 735-804
Class Ten
BOOK IV (1-705)
Ch. 18 1-64
Ch. 19 65-128
Class Eleven
Ch. 20 129-197
Ch. 21 198-278
Class Twelve
Examination Two
Class Thirteen
Ch. 22 279-361
Ch. 23 362-449
Class Fourteen
Ch. 24 642-705
3
BOOK VI (1-901)
Ch. 25 1-97
Class Fifteen
Ch. 26 98-211
Ch. 27 450-476, 847-901
Class Sixteen
BOOK X (1-908)
Ch. 28 420-509
Class Seventeen
BOOK XII (1-952)
Ch. 29 791-842
Ch. 30 887-952
Class Eighteen
Final Examination
ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING
Written homework will be assigned for each class. For some of the classes
there will be a fifteen-minute, written quiz on the assignments from the previous day.
There will also be three examinations. The final grade will be determined in this
way: attendance and classroom participation: 20%; homework 30%; weekly quizzes
20%; two examinations 30%.
It is very important to come to class each time. If you are not able to come,
please e-mail the instructor ahead of time (001193@mail.fju.edu.tw). Unexcused
absences will make it very difficult for the student to pass the course.
TEXTBOOK
Bradley, Katherine, and Barbara Weiden Boyd.
IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006
A Vergil Workbook.
Mundelein,
AUXILIARY READINGS
Ziolkowski, Jan M. and Michael C. J. Putnam. The Virgilian Tradition: The First
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Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PRINT (arranged chronologically)
Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006.
Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis: Hackett., 2005.
Trans. G. B. Cobbold. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005.
Trans. Richard S. Caldwell. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2004.
Trans. Edward McCrorie. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1995.
Trans. David West. London: Penguin Classics, 1991.
Trans. C.H. Sisson. London: J.M. Dent, 1998.
Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Knopf, 1992.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS ON-LINE
Dryden, John http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html
Kline, A.S. http://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasaeneid.htm
Williams, Theodore C.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0054:book=1:lin
e=1
Wilson, Andrew http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/aeneid1.htm
WEBSITES
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0001&l
ayout=&loc=&query=toc
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their
Families. http://www.roman-emperors.org/
Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
Perseus Digital Library.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/