DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Course Specification 2006/7 Code: CL2824C Course Value: 1.0 Status: Optional ie:Core, or Optional Title: Latin Love Elegy Availability: Throughout year (state which teaching terms) Prerequisites: 1765, 1776 or equivalent level of study in Latin Recommended: --- Co-ordinator: Prof. J.G.F.Powell Course Staff Ms. Kathryn Tempest

Aims:  To enable students with sufficient previous knowledge of Latin to read selected texts of Latin love elegy in the original, with an accurate understanding of the language  To help students to understand and appreciate in detail the literary qualities of Latin love elegy and its relationship to its historical context  To develop students’ awareness of scholarly debates about the interpretation of Latin love elegy and to introduce them to appropriate secondary literature  To develop students’ skills of exposition and argument, and their ability both to comment in detail on specific passages, and to collect and use evidence from a text in order to support a general thesis.

Learning Students successfully completing this course will have read and understood a selection of texts in the original Latin by the major Outcomes: poets of Latin love elegy. They will be able to translate passages from these texts into idiomatic English and will have acquired a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the genre, its language and style, metre, allusions, subject-matter, literary antecedents, and historical and social background. They will be able to construct a critical argument on issues arising from the study of these texts, drawing on an appropriate range of evidence and knowledge of the secondary literature, and to comment in detail on passages from the texts studied with a view to elucidating their meaning and literary characteristics.

Course The course will explore the literary genre of Latin love elegy through a close reading of the poetry of , and Content: . The following texts will be read in the original Latin: 68B Propertius II. 1-11, 13, 16, 19-20 (Propertius II.12 and 14-15 may be dealt with in coursework essays) Tibullus I. 1-5 Ovid Amores II. 1-8 Ovid Ars Amatoria I

Teaching & Three 1-hour classes per week (or one 2-hour + one 1-hour). Learning Two of the hours will be devoted to reading and exploring the texts. the third hour will be devoted to discussions of presentations by individual students on selected passages or topics. Methods

Propertius, Elegies Book II ed. W.A.Camps, Bristol Classical Press 1985 (first published 1966) Key Tibullus, Elegies ed. Guy Lee, 3rd ed., Leeds, Francis Cairns, 1990 Bibliography: Ovid Amores II ed. Joan Booth, Warminster, Aris & Phillips 1991 Ovid, Ars Amatoria I ed. A.S.Hollis, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1977 Ovid, The Love Poems tr. A.D.Melville (Oxford World’s Classics 1990) or Ovid, the Erotic Poems tr. P. Green (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1982) R.O.A.M. Lyne, The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace (Oxford 1980) J. Griffin, Latin Poets and Roman Life (London 1985) M. Hubbard, Propertius (London, Duckworth, 1974) F. Cairns, Tibullus, a Hellenistic Poet at Rome (Cambridge 1979) G. Luck, The Latin Love Elegy, 2nd ed. (London 1969) S. Lilja, The Roman Elegists’ Attitude to Women (Helsinki 1965) P. Hardie (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (2002)

Formative Seminar presentations (one per student each term). Students will receive feedback on their coursework Assessment essays and translation tests (see below, Assessment). and Feedback:

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Summative Assessment: Coursework (20%) The best of two in-course essays of 2000 words each ± 500, and the best of two translation tests.

Deadlines: Essay 1 around the sixth week of the first term Test 1 in the first week of the second term Essay 2 around the sixth week of the second term Test 2 in the final week of the second term

Exam (80%): 3-hour examination

Section A (66% of marks) Passages in the original Latin for comment, taken from the texts studied during the year.

Section B (33% of marks) Essay questions on the texts studied and on wider literary issues.

The information contained in this course outline is correct at the time of publication, but may be subject to change as part of the D epartment’s policy of continuous improvement and development. Every effort will be made to notify you of any such changes.

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