Latin Literature Survey
Course: Vergil Eclogues to the death
of Ovid
Week 1
Introduction.
Latin textual
criticism: methodological debates and the practicalities of editing. Issues in Augustan
literary interpretation (politics, patronage, intertextuality, genre, career)
and history of scholarship since 1945.
Week 2
Emerging
Augustan literature 1: Vergil Eclogues,
Gallus
[READ: Eclogues 1,2,4,6,7,8,10; SJH Generic Enrichment Ch.2]
Week 3
Emerging
Augustan literature 2: Horace Satires
1 and 2, Epodes
[READ: Satires 1.1.1-40 1.5, 1.6.45-92, 1.9,
2.1, 2.5, Epodes 1 and 2; E.Gowers’
CUP commentary on Sat.1, SJH 2014 on Satires 2, SJH Generic
Enrichment Ch.3]
Week 4
Emerging
Augustan literature 3: Vergil Georgics
[READ: Georgics 1.1-203, 1.463-515, 2.135-76,
2.458-542, 3.1-48, 4.1-148; SJH Generic
Enrichment Ch.4]
Week 5
Elegy before
Ovid: Tibullus, Propertius 1-3
[READ: Tibullus
1.1, 1.3, 1.7, Propertius 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.7, 2.10, 3.1, 3.3]
Week 6
Vergil Aeneid
[READ: Aeneid 1.1-304, 12.612-92; know whole Aeneid in English translation]
Week 7
After the Aeneid: Propertius 4, Horace Odes 4 and Epistles 2
[READ:
Propertius 4.1, 4.6, 4.11; Horace Odes
4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8, 4.15, Epistles
2.1.1-22, 2.2.41-60]
Week 8
Augustan prose: Livy
and others
[READ: Livy praefatio, 1.46-8, 1.53-4, 5.49.8-54, 21.35.4-38.5,
22.4-7.5; Vitruvius 1 praefatio;
Augustus Res
Gestae; Nepos Life of Atticus (both in translation)]
Week 9
Ovid and the
development of elegy (Amores to Fasti)
[READ: Ovid Amores 1.1-1.3, Heroides 7.1-44, Ars 1.1-34, 3.101-28, 3.311-48, Remedia Amoris 357-96, Fasti 1.1-44, 3.459-516, 4.1-18]
Week 10
The later Ovid (Metamorphoses, exile poetry)
[READ: Ovid Met.1.1-31, 1.452-567, 8.183-235,
345-525, 611-78; Tristia 1.6, 2.529-62,
4.10.33-54]
Course resources
S.J.Harrison
[ed.] A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell,
2005)
[online at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh/]
S.J.Harrison, Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace
(Oxford, 2007) [online at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/]
OCD 4 www.oxfordreference.com
Loeb online www.loebclassics.com/
OSEO www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/