LAT 251 Roman Letters

We'll read through letters posted on the Google Document on Mondays and Wednesdays, and on Fridays we'll discuss secondary readings listed below. They are simply a list of articles I found probably of interest about Cicero's epistolary works. The idea is to read them and talk about what the article is and what it accomplishes.

We'll all write commentaries on letters: you choose the letters, which should be at least the following lengths (if this is your first class after 05X level latin, 80 words: if this is your second class after 05X level Latin, 120 words; if you are an undergraduate and have taken more Latin than that, 150 words; if you are a graduate student, 150 words, but more is highly encouraged).
They are due: Oct. 2nd, Oct. 30th, and Dec. 4th.

• FIRST Weekly READING:
• Article: Petrarch's Letters to Cicero: Frank Abbott
      The Sewanee Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jul., 1897), pp. 319-327
      Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
      Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27527941
• SECOND Weekly Reading:
• Letters of Caesar and Cicero to Each Other
• Adolph F. Pauli
• The Classical World, Vol. 51, No. 5 (Feb., 1958), pp. 128-132
• Sympathetic Rivals: Consolation in Cicero's Letters
• Amanda Wilcox
• The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 126, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 237-255
• Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3804900
• THIRD Weekly Reading:
• Administrative Slavery in the Ancient Roman Republic: The Value of Marcus Tullius Tiro in Ciceronian Rhetoric
• Zach Bankston
• Rhetoric Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2012), pp. 203-218
• Try this letter about Tiro and shorthand from Justus Lipsius (born 1547): http://books.google.com/books?id=0_dIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA760&dq=tiro+cicero+lipsius&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vCgGVIm-C4y1ggSs0oKYAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=tiro%20cicero%20lipsius&f=false
• FOURTH Weekly Reading:
• Political Style in Cicero's Letters to Atticus
• Robert Hariman
• Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 1989), pp. 145-158
• FIFTH Weekly Reading:
• Wordplays Involving Bovillae in Cicero's Letters
  Malcolm MacLaren
  The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr., 1966), pp. 192-202
  Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
  Article DOI: 10.2307/292704
  Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/292704
• Jerome the Christian Cicero
  John N. Hritzu
  The Classical Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 9 (Dec. 13, 1943), pp. 98-101
  
• SIXTH Weekly Reading:
• The Medicean Mss. of Cicero's Letters
  Robert F. Leighton
  Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896), Vol. 21, No. (1890), pp. 59-87
• SEVENTH Weekly Reading:
• Cicero's Letter to Cyprus
  A. J. Marshall
  Phoenix, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Autumn, 1964), pp. 206-215
  
• Some Notes on Cicero's Letters to Trebatius
  Eduard Fraenkel
  The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1/2 (1957), pp. 66-70
• An Emendation in Cicero's Letters
  W. S. Watt
  The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), p. 308
• EIGHTH Weekly Reading:
• A QUESTION IN CRITICISM ILLUSTRATED FROM CICERO'S LETTERS
  R. Y. TYRRELL
  Hermathena, Vol. 9, No. 21 (1895), pp. 171-174
• Probability in an Emendation in Cicero's Letters
  E. Badian
  The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 108, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), pp. 644-647
• L. S. J. and Cicero's Letters
  D. R. Shackleton Bailey
  The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1 (May, 1962), pp. 159-165
• NINTH Weekly Reading:
• Two Friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters
  T. P. Wiseman
  The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Nov., 1968), pp. 297-302
• The Dating of Cicero's Letters by Consular Names
  Malcolm MacLaren
  The Classical Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Jan., 1970), pp. 168-172
• Pages from Shackleton-Bailey's Cambridge 1980 "Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem et M. Brutum" on the authenticity of certain letters
• TENTH Weekly Reading:
• The Chronological Order of Cicero's Earliest Letters to Atticus
  Richard S. Stewart
  Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 93 (1962), pp. 459-470
• The Magic of Personality in Cicero's Letters
  Helen Wieland Cole
  The Classical Journal, Vol. 18, No. 6 (Mar., 1923), pp. 352-359
• ELEVENTH Weekly Reading
• Elizabeth Montagu's Study of Cicero's Life: The Formation of an Eighteenth-Century Woman's Rhetorical Identity
  Tania Smith
  Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 165-187
  Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
  Article DOI: 10.1525/rh.2008.26.2.165
  Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.2008.26.2.165
• TWELFTH Weekly Reading
• Cicero on Optics ("Att." 2.3.2)
  Paul T. Keyser
  Phoenix, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 67-69
  Published by: Classical Association of Canada
  Article DOI: 10.2307/1088919
  Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1088919
  
• S.V.B.; E.V.
  Erik Gunderson
  Classical Antiquity, Vol. 26, No. 1 (April 2007), pp. 1-48
  Published by: University of California Press
  Article DOI: 10.1525/ca.2007.26.1.1
  Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ca.2007.26.1.1