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/