Greek and Latin 300: Proseminar

Schedule:

Readings to be completed the day they are listed. Assignments due the day listed.

• August
• Week 1
  
• T 26: Introduction
• Read the first 100 lines of Homer's Iliad book 9 in Greek
  
• R 28:
  
• Do Linear B Worksheet
  
• Read the first 100 lines of Homer's Odyssey book 9 in Greek
  
• Read at least through P. 20 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 26 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
  

• September
• Week 2
• 2 T:
  
• John Franklin to talk about epic cycle.
  
• Read the first 100 lines of Hesiod's Works and Days in Greek
• Read at least through P. 20 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 26 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• 4Tr:
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• Week 3
  
• 9 T:
• Read at least through P. 35 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 46 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the Archilochus fragments in Campbell (on the TLG, it's West # 1-5, 13, 19, 21-22, 30, 91 lines 14-15, 116, 102, 105, 114, 126, 130, 133, 134) AND start Aeschylus Agememnon
  
• 11 Tr:
• Read at least through P. 50 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 66 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 100 lines of Aeschylus Agamemnon.
  
• Week 4
• 16 T:
• Bill Mierse?
  
• Read at least through P. 65 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 86 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 100 lines of Sophocles Antigone
  
• 18 Tr:
• Read at least through P. 80 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 106 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the next 100 lines of Sophocles Antigone
• Week 5
• 23 T:
• Read at least through P. 95 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 126 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 100 lines of Euripides Bacchae
  
• 25 Tr:
• Read at least through P. 110 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 146 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 2 OCT pages of Herodotus
• Week 6
• 30th T:
• Jessica Evans on historiography.
  
• Read at least through P. 125 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 166 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the next OCT page of Herodotus and the first 2 OCT pages of Thucydides
  
• October
• Oct. 2 Tr:
• Read at least through P. 140 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 186 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 3 OCT pages of Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration (book II.35ff.)
• Week 7
• Oct. 7 T:
• Mark Usher to talk about reception.
• Read at least through P. 155 in Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and through P. 206 in Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 3 pages of Plato Republic I
• Oct. 9 Tr:
• Finish Dover's Ancient Greek Literature and Whitmarsh's Ancient Greek Literature
• Read the first 2 pages of Lysias' 'Against Eratosthenes' and the first 2 OCT pages of Aristotle's Poetics.
  
• MIDPOINT OF SEMESTER: Switch to Latin
  
• Week 8
• Oct. 14 T:
• Jessie Evans on gender/sexuality/
  
• Conte 54
• Read lines 109-169 of Plautus' Menaechmi
  and start to read lines 35-95 of Terence's Phormio (use Elaine Coury's edition if you find it)
• Oct. 16 Tr:
• Conte 108
• Finish lines 35-95 of Terence's Phormio and read the first 60 lines of Catullus' poems
• Week 9
• Oct. 21 T: Walsh visit: Epigraphy
  
• Conte162
• Read the first three pages of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
  
• Oct. 23 Tr:
• Conte 216
• Read the first 100 lines of Lucretius
• Week 10
• Oct. 28 T:
• Conte 270
• Read the first 2 pages of Cicero's Pro Caelio and read the first page of Cicero's de Finibus
• Oct. 30 Tr:
• Barbara Saylor-Rodgers on oratory?
• Conte 324
• Read the second page of Cicero's de Finibus
• Read the first 2 pages of Cicero's ad Familiares XIII.1
• November
• Week 11
  
• Nov. 4 T:
• Walsh visit: Numismatics
  
• Conte 378
• Read the first 2 pages of Caesar's de Bello Gallico
• Start to read the first 60 lines of Tibullus
• Nov. 6 Tr:
• Conte 432
• Read the first 60 lines of Propertius
• Week 12
• Nov. 11 T:
• Angeline Chiu
  
• Conte 486
• Read the first 100 lines of Horace's Odes
• Nov. 13 Tr:
• Conte 540
• Read the first 100 lines of the Aeneid
• Week 13
• Nov. 18 T:
  
• Robert Rodgers on critical editions
• read Scribes and Scholars
  
• Conte 594
• Read the first 100 lines of Virgil's Eclogues
• Nov. 20 Tr:
• Conte 648
• Read the first 100 lines of Ovid's Metamorphoses
•  No Class: Thanksgiving Break
• Week 14
• Dec. 2 T:
• Finish Conte
• Read the first page of Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis
• Read Pliny the younger's Letter III.xxi
• Read the first 60 lines of Juvenal's Satires
• FINAL: in same room as regular class