Latin 500: Latin Grammar and Composition
(Autumn Quarter 2012)
MW 12:30-2:20, Denny 313
Prof. A. M. Gowing
Denny Hall M-24 (phone:
543-2266; e-mail: alain@u.washington.edu)
Office Hours: Mon. 10-11
Required Texts: The infamous
– but revised edition of (Bolchazy-Carducci 2006) -- Mountford's
Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition
(= BA)
Allen
and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
(=AG)
M.
von Albrecht, Masters
of Roman Prose, N. Adkin trans. (Francis Cairns 1989) (= MRP)
E.C.
Woodcock, A New Latin
Syntax (Bolchazy-Carducci 1959) (=NLS)
Course website (with
syllabus, link to the online AG, etc.) is:
http://faculty.washington.edu/alain/Lat500/Lat500home.html
Course requirements and
grading:
1. (60%) Satisfactory and timely
completion of the assigned weekly exercises in Bradley's Arnold.
2. (15%) A mid-term consisting of a translation (to be
done at home) of one of the connected prose passages, numbers 1-45, at the end
of BA (pp. 320-39) and done in the style of one of the authors studied in MRP
Chaps. 1-4. Due Wednesday, Oct. 31.
3. (15%) A final along the lines of the midterm,
except that the passage should be selected from numbers 46-89 in BA (pp.
339-58) and must be done in the style of any of the authors studied in MRP (other
than the one you did for the midterm).
Alternatives will be considered, e.g., an original letter done in the
style of Pliny the Younger. Due
date: No later than noon Wednesday, Dec. 12.
4. (10%) Active participation in class discussions
(=youÕre expected to come prepared and contribute)
NB: Whether you type or handwrite your assignments, PLEASE
DOUBLESPACE.
Assignments:
NB: It is expected that you
will read both the assigned chapters
in BA as well as relevant sections in
AG and especially NLS even though I have not explicitly indicated page numbers
here (itÕs pretty easy to figure out).
Sept. 24: INTRODUCTION
26:
Read BA's Introduction, pp. 1-22
BA Chapters (called ÔExercisesÕ in the
revised ed.) I-III
Ex.
1: 1, 2, 5, 10, 11
Ex.
2A: 2, 5, 6
Ex.
2B: 3, 4, 6
Ex.
3A: 7
Ex.
3B: 7
Oct.
1: BA Chapters IV-IX
Ex.
4A: 2, 4, 9
Ex.
4B: 2
Ex.
5: 3, 12
Ex.
6A: 10,11
Ex.
6B: 2
Ex.
7A: 5, 8
Ex.
8A: 9
Ex.
8C: 1
Ex.
9B: 1
Oct.
3: MRP Chap. 1 – Cato
Oct.
8: BA Chapters X-XVI
Ex.
10: 3, 5, 6
Ex.
11A: 4
Ex.
11B: 2
Ex.
12A: 1, 10
Ex.
12B: 2
Ex.
13A: 4
Ex.
13B: 1
Ex.
14A: 3, 5
Ex.
15A: 6, 11, 12
Ex.
16A: 2, 9
Ex.
16B: 2
10:
MRP Chap. 2 - Gracchus & Cicero
Oct.
15: BA Chapters XVII-XXIV
Ex.
17: 2, 9, 14, 15
Ex.
18A: 3, 6
Ex.
19: 1, 4, 6
Ex.
20B: all
Ex.
21: 2, 8
Ex.
22A: 1, 6
Ex.
23A: 4
Ex.
23B: 2, 6
Ex.
24: 1, 8
18:
MRP Chap. 3 - Caesar
Oct.
22: BA Chapters XXV-XL
Ex.
25A: 1-4, 9
Ex.
26: 3
Ex.
27: 6
Ex.
28: 5
Ex.
29A: 1
Ex.
29B: 9
Ex.
30: 9
Ex.
31: 4
Ex.
32A: 17
Ex.
32B: 3
Ex.
33A: 4
Ex.
33B: 4
Ex.
34: 1
Ex.
35A: 5
Ex.
35B: 3
Ex.
36: 3
Ex.
37: 1
Ex.
38: 2 (first sent. only)
Ex.
39: 5
Ex.
40: 3
Oct.
24: MRP Chap. 4 - Sallust
Oct.
29: BA Chapters XLI-XLIV
Ex.
41: 1-2, 5
Ex.
42: 1, 4, 9
Ex.
43: 1-5, 12
Ex.
44: 1-5
31:
MRP Chap. 5 - Quadrigarius & Livy; MIDTERM DUE TODAY
Nov.
5: BA Chapters XLV-XLVIII
Ex.
45: 2, 3, 7, 11
Ex.
46: 2, 10
Ex.
47: 2, 5, 7, 8
Ex.
48A: 1, 4, 6, 8
Ex.
48B: 10
7:
MRP Chap. 6 - Cicero & Seneca
Nov.
12: BA Chapters XLIX-LIII
Ex.
49: 1-3, 10
Ex.
50: 3, 4, 6
Ex.
51: 4, 5, 7
Ex.
52: 1, 2, 8, 11
Ex.
53: 1, 6, 10, 11
14:
MRP Chap. 7 – Petronius
Nov.19:
BA Chapters LIV-LVI
Ex.
54: 1, 2, 5-7
Ex.
55: 1-4, 8
Ex.
56: 4-7
21:
MRP Chap. 8 – Tacitus
Nov.
26: BA Ex. 57A; 1, 11, 12
Ex.
57B: 5
Ex.
58A: 7
Ex.
58B: 8
Ex.
59A: 2, 5
Ex.
60: 1
Ex.
61: 2, 6
Ex.
62: 1
Ex.
63: 1
Ex.
64: 2
Ex.
65A: 3
Ex.
66A: 7
Ex.
67: 2
28: MRP Chaps. 9 - Pliny
Dec. 3: A Latin prose translation friendly
competition!
Dec. 5: MRP Chap. 10 - Apuleius
Wed., Dec. 12: FINAL PASSAGE DUE BY NOON