Latin 209--Topics in Latin Literature
Pliny's Letters and Imperial Culture
Texts
Some General Web Sources (lists and texts, expect some overlap):
Allen
and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
Glossary of
Rhetorical Terms and Examples
Pliny
Bibliography NB: Not all of this is in English
Worlds of Late
Antiquity: Prepared and Maintained by Professor J O'Donnell here at
UPenn, will allow you to link to his other interesting sites as well
ROMARCH: Art
and Archaeology of Italy and the Provinces, 1000 BCE-700 CE
Diotima:
For the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Andrew
Riggsby's Home Page: A Web-Savy Classics Professor from UT Austin
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NOTE! Syllabus Revised Through 2/14
Introduction:
Pliny and the Literary Life Jan 15: Letter 1
Jan 17: Letters 34 and 38; Shelton pp 6-17
Jan 22: Letter 22
Jan 24: Letter 27; Shelton pp 311-15; 319 (bottom)-322 (top)
Jan 29: Letters 6 and 18; Shelton pp 104-14
Jan 31: Letter 26; Shelton "The Rhetor" pp 117-24
Allen Romano on rhetoric and education
Politics in Rome and the Provinces
Feb 5: Letter 10 (to p 13 paragraph break); Shelton pp 270-89
Feb 7: Letter 10, through sentence 19; Shelton pp 360-62; 386-95
Feb 12: Finish Letter 10; Start Letters 47 and 48; Shelton pp 408-23
Feb 14: quiz 1; finish up Letters 47 and 48
Villas and Other Leisurely Pursuits
Feb 19: Letters 7, 9; Shelton pp 81-88;
"Dinner" 315-19
Feb 21: Letters 2 and 36; Statius II. 5;
Shelton pp 69-72 and "Spectacles" 331-39; 342-59
Masa Culumovic on games
Feb 26: Letter 40; Shelton "Rural Housing" pp 72-80
Feb 28: Statius II. 2. 1-82
Mar 4: Statius II. 2. 83-end; Letter 21; Shelton "City Life" pp 65-69
Writing Nature
Spring Break March 9-17
Mar 18: Statius II. 3
Chobun H. on Ancient Scientific Knowledge
Mar 20: Letter 30; Shelton "Magic" pp 423-26;
Mar 25: Letter 25; Shelton "Travel" pp 325-31
Sickness and Death
Mar 27: Finish Letter 25; Letter 24 (in Latin) and 33 (in English);
Shelton 168-89
April 1: quiz 3; Statius I. 4. 1-63; Shelton pp 88-93
April 3: Statius I. 4. 64-end
April 8: Letter 5; Shelton pp 93-6, 431-37
Pat Harvey on Stoicism and death
April 10: Statius II. 7. 1-80
Glen Aduana on Silver Age poetry
April 15: Statius II. 7. 81-end and Letter 37; Shelton pp
97-101; from Petronius' Satyricon (in English, xerox)
People and Lives
April 17: Letter 4;
April 22: Letter 15; Shelton pp 290-307 Shelton "families" pp
18-36
April 24: (quiz 4); Letters 19 and 29
April 29--Final Projects Due
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