Week 3 (81)

Lyric Love

Feb. 10

Primary Readings: Catullus 49 (Dissertissime Romuli nepotum - 6v.); Catullus 57 (Pulcre convenit improbis cinaedis - 10v.)

Readings in Translation: Catullus 10, , 27, 43, 93

Secondary Readings: T.P. Wiseman, ÔThe poet and his audience,' in Catullus and His World: a Reappraisal, Cambridge Univ. Press 1985, p. 124-129

Assignment: Complete parsing worksheet for Catullus 57

Feb. 12

Primary Readings: Catullus 48 (Mellitos oculos tuos Iuventi - 6v.); Catullus 15 (Commendo tibi me ac meos amores - 19v.)

Readings in Translation: Catullus 21

Secondary Readings: OCD³, "Homosexuality"; A. Richlin, "The Circumstances of Males Homosexuality in Roman Society of the Late Republic and Early Empire" in The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Agression in Roman Humor. Oxford 1992. pp. 220-226

Assignment: Complete scanning worksheet for Catullus 48

Feb. 14

Primary Readings: Catullus 2 (Passer, deliciae meae puellae - 13v.), Catullus 3 (Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque - 18v.)

Readings in Translation: Catullus 86, 87,; Sappho 16

Quiz: Vocabulary 251-300