LATN 1150 Prose Composition Fall 2013 Th 4-6:20 MacFarlane 101

John Bodel, Dept. of Classics, MacFarlane 204, Box 1856 | phone: 3-3815; mess. 3-2123 [email protected] | Office hours: Tu. 2:00-3:30 or by appointment

TEXTS

• E. Courtney, Archaic Latin Prose (Atlanta 1999) • J. F. Mountford, ed., Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition (repr. New Rochelle 1992) • J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, B. L. D’Ooge, Allen and Greenough’s New (Boston 1931) • E. C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax (London 1959; repr. Oak Park 1987)]

THE COURSE

Latin 1150 introduces students to the study of the Latin prose style of major Roman authors of the classical period (Cato, Sallust, Cicero, , Tacitus) through close reading of selected excerpts from their major works and composition of continuous passages of Latin prose in imitation of the styles in which they are written. Class meetings will consist of a combination of reading of prepared passages with a particular view to stylistic considerations, review of written compositions, and preview of upcoming assignments.

SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Sept. 5: Introduction and diagnostic composition

12: Courtney, Archaic Latin Prose, Introduction and Ennius, Euhemerus, pp. 1-11, 27- 39; Cato, de Agri Cultura § 1-3, 141, 156-57; Origines and Pro Rhodiensibus, pp. 74-85. M. von Albrecht, Masters of Roman Prose (Leeds 1989), ch. 1, pp. 1-20

19: Courtney, Archaic Latin Prose, C. Gracchus, pp. 124-133; Gell. 10.3. Cic. Pro lege Manil. 1-5 (66 BCE); De lege agr. 2.1-10 (63); De prov. cons. 1-4 (56). M. von Albrecht, Masters of Roman Prose, ch. 2, pp. 33-53 E. Laughton, “The Learner and the Latin Period”, Greece & Rome 11 (1942) 84-91 [1. HALBERSTAM AS CATO] 26: No class

Oct. 3: Cic. Brutus 61-69; In Pisonem 1-3, 12-13; Pro Archia 1-4 Courtney, Archaic Latin Prose, L. Calpurnius Piso, pp. 141-43; Q. Claudius Quadrigarius, pp. 143-50; Livy Pref. and 1.1 [2. CATO PRO RHODIENSIBUS AS CICERO]

10: [Midterm test for undergraduates] 11 (Fri.)? Sallust, Cat. 1-4, 5-8; Jug. 1-5; R. Syme, “History and Style”, Sallust (Berkeley 1964), 254-73; von Albrecht, Masters, ch. 4, 68-85; A. D. Leeman Orationis Ratio (Amsterdam 1963), 179-87 [3. SWIFT AS CICERO] LATN 1150 Latin Prose Composition Fall 2013 Th 4-6:20 MacFarlane 101

17: Livy 1.7-8 [1.22-31: Tullus Hostilius]; Livy 21.1-4; [cf. Cic. Pro Caelio ; Sallust, BC 15-16]; A. H. McDonald, “The Style of Livy”, Journal of Roman Studies 47 (1957) 155-72 [JSTOR] [4. BURKE AS SALLUST]

24: Livy 21.1.7-15; S. P. Oakley, Commentary on Livy Books VI–X vol. 1 (1997) 125-51 [5. BA 5 AS LIVY]

31: Tac. Ann. 1-10; Agr. 1-3; 30-32; R. Syme, Tacitus (Oxford 1958), vol. I, chs. 26-27, 340-63; vol. II Appendixes 42-60, 711-45; von Albrecht, Masters, ch. 8, 136-59. [6. TARN AS LIVY]

Nov. 7: Tac. Hist. 1.1.1-6; J. N. Adams, “The language of Tacitus in the later books of the Annals,” Classical Quarterly 22 (1972) 350-73; F. R. D. Goodyear, “Development of language and style in the Annals of Tacitus,” JRS 58 (1968) 22- 31; C. Damon, Tacitus. Histories Book I (Cambridge 2003) 12-20; R. Ash, Tacitus Histories Book II (Cambridge 2007) 14-26; S. P. Oakley, “Style and Language” in A. J. Woodman, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge 2009) 195-211 [7. GIBBON AS TACITUS]

14: Sen. Contr. 1.1. M. Winterbottom, (Loeb). intro. vii-xxii; Sen. Ep. Mor. 12, 114 ; W. C. Summers, Select Letters of Seneca (London 1962) xv-xli (the pointed style); xlii-xcv (Seneca’s style); Von Albrecht, Masters, pp. 112-24 [8. ‘TITUS AND BERENICE’ AS TACITUS]

21: , 10.1.105-131 (esp. 125-131 on Seneca); Fronto, Ad M. Caes. 4.3 (pp. 56- 59 v.d.H.); Leeman, OR, ch. 15, “The End” (pp. 364-83) [9. TWAIN AS CICERO OR TACITUS] 28: THANKSGIVING BREAK

Dec. 5: Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.1-4; 2.7-9; 4.28-31.3; 11.5; Von Albrecht, Masters, pp. 167-76.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

• Each of the following components will determine a fraction of the final grade:

1) Class participation. Translation of assigned readings. 2) Composition assignments, as follows: Undergraduates: 3 in all, including at least one “as Cicero” (2, 3, 9) and one “as Tacitus” (7, 8, 9) Graduate students: 7 in all, including “Cato” (1) and “Sallust” (4) and at least one each of “Cicero” (2, 3, 9), “Livy” (5, 6), and “Tacitus” (7, 8, 9) • Compositions must be submitted in hard copy according to the guidelines to be specified in class. 3) Midterm (Oct. 10) (for undergraduates)