Week 1 (33v.)

Introduction to Lyric; Neoterics & Catullus

Jan. 27

Introduction to Lyric & Workshop on Quantity and Scansion

Group Assignment: Translate & Scan 3v./Group of Catullus 1 (cui dono lepidum -10v.)

Jan. 29

Primary Readings: Catullus 14 (Ni te plus ocullis meis amarem - 23v.)

Readings in Translation: Catullus 22, 50

Secondary Readings: Catullus ix-xii; L. Morgan, "Escapes from orthodoxy" in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Oliver Taplin ed. Oxford Univ. Press 2000. pp. 336-338, 349-358; {Conte, Latin Literature: A History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 133-154}; {Halporn 59-67}

Assignment: Complete scanning worksheet for Catullus 14.1-6

Jan. 31

Primary Readings: Catullus 36 (Annales, Volusi - 20v.)

Readings in Translation: Catullus 12, 42, 105

Secondary Readings: L. Kurke, "The strangeness of Ôsong culture'" in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Oliver Taplin ed. Oxford Univ. Press 2000. pp. 58-87

Quiz: Vocabulary 166-200