Syllabus
For 2024-5
Set texts for weekly reading and interpretation classes. Students will need a copy of the following prescribed commentaries:
- Virgil Aeneid 12. (R. Tarrant [2012] Aeneid : Book XII. Cambridge).
- Sallust Bellum Catilinae. (J.T. Ramsey [2007] Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. Oxford. 2nd edition).
Set text for grammar and syntax in context. Students will need a copy of the following
- Cicero Catilinarians. (A.R. Dyck [2008] Cicero Catilinarians. Cambridge).
scroll down for secondary bibliography
Assessment:
The module is examined by:
a) 1-hour paper in the Winter session of examinations, which counts for 25% of the final mark (one passage from Aeneid 12);
b) 2-hour paper in the Summer session of examinations, which counts for 75% of the final mark (one passage from Sallust Bellum Catilinae, and one passage from Cicero's Catilinarians).
In the Winter examination, students will be expected to translate he extract from the first set text (Virgil Aeneid 12), to explain grammatical forms and constructions, and to comment on points of interest in style, content, and wider interpretation in the selected passage.
In the Summer examination, students will be expected:
- to translate an extract from the second set text (Sallust Bellum Catilinae), to explain grammatical forms and constructions, and to comment on points of interest in style, content, and wider interpretation in the selected passage;
- to explain grammatical forms and constructions in an extract from Cicero's Catilinarians.
Additional Materials
Recommended Dictionaries:
Charles Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford, various reprints) or C.T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, Oxford 2002.
Note that the Lewis & Short (more expensive, but much more comprehensive than the Elementary option) is also available as a smartphone app for around £4, and can also be consulted online on perseus.tufts.edu. Also try, if you can, to use the Oxford Latin Dictionary, regarded as the best Latin-English dictionary available. There are copies available for consultation in the University Library.
Recommended Grammars:
James Morwood, A Latin Grammar (Oxford, 1999) or Cambridge Latin Grammar (Cambridge, 1992). Other possible grammars to consult are B.L. Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar (London, 1948) and Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer (Cambridge, 2010) PDF
Online Resources:
https://logeion.uchicago.edu/about
Secondary Bibliography
Virgil
Cairns, F. (1989) Virgil’s Augustan Epic, Cambridge. [ebook]
Camps, W.A. (1969) An Introduction to Virgil’s Aeneid, London [printed resource]
Conte, G.B. (2007) The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic, Oxford. [ebook]
Farrell, J. and Putnam, M.C.J. (2010) (eds.) A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its tradition, Malden MA [ebook].
Johnson, W.R. (1979) Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil’s Aeneid, Berkeley [printed resource]
Hardie, P.R. (1986) Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium, Oxford [printed resource]
* Hardie, P.R. (1998) Virgil, Oxford [printed resource]
Hardie, P. R., ed. 1999. Virgil. Critical assessments of classical authors, vols 3-4, London [printed resource]
*Harrison, S.J. (ed.) (1990) Oxford Readings in Virgil’s Aeneid, Oxford (classic articles) [printed resource]
*Horsfall, N. (2000) A Companion to the Study of Virgil, Leiden [ebook]
Lyne, R.O.A.M. (1987) Further Voices in Vergil’s Aeneid, Oxford [printed resource]
*Martindale, C. (ed.) (1997) The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge [ebook]
O’Hara, J.J. (1990) Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid [printed resource]
Parry, A. (1963) ‘The Two Voices of Virgil’s Aeneid’, Arion 2, 66-80.
Pöschl, V. (1970) The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the Aeneid, Ann Arbor [printed resource]
*Putnam, C.J. (2011) The Humanness of Heroes. Studies in the Conclusion to Virgil’s Aeneid, Amsterdam.
Quinn, K. (2006) Virgil’s Aeneid: A Critical Description, Bristol [printed resource]
Reed, J. D. (2007) Virgil’s Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid, Princeton [e-resource]
Ross, D.O. (2007) Virgil’s Aeneid: A Reader’s Guide, Malden MA [ebook]
Thomas, R.F. (2001) Virgil and the Augustan Reception, Cambridge [ebook]
Thomas, R. F. and J. M. Ziolkowski (eds) (2014) The Virgil encyclopedia, 3 vols, Malden MA (bite-sized summaries of names, topics, authors, etc.)
Aeneid on jstor: http://www.aeneidinjstor.eu/
Virgil Aeneid Book 12
Please read Aeneid Book 12 in Latin with the recommended commentary of R. Tarrant (R. Tarrant, Virgil Aeneid Book XII, Cambridge, 2012).
The following bibliography includes some works on Book 12 that we will discuss together in class:
Anderson, W.S. (1971) ‘Two passages from Book 12 of the Aeneid’, CSCA 4: 49-65 [e-resource]
Bandera, A. (1981) ‘Sacrificial levels in Virgil’s Aeneid’, Arethusa 14: 217-40 [e-resource]
Barchiesi, A. (2015) Homeric effects in Vergil’s narrative, Princeton (esp. ‘The death of Turnus: genre-model and example-model’ and ‘The lament of Juturna’) [ebook]
Cairns, F. (2005) ‘Lavinia’s blush (Virgil Aeneid 12.64-70)’, in D. L. Cairns, ed. Body language in the Greek and Roman worlds (Swansea): 195-214
Edgeworth, R. J. (1986) ‘The Dirae of Aeneid XII’, Eranos 84, 133-43/
Feeney, D. C. (1984) ‘The reconciliations of Juno,’ CQ 34: 179-94 (also in Oxford readings and Hardie Critical assessments 4) [e-resource]
Fowler, D. (1987) ‘Vergil on killing virgins’, in M. Whitby, P. Hardie and M. Whitby, eds. Homo viator: classical essays for John Bramble (Bristol) 185-198 (190-1 on Lavinia’s blush) [printed resource]
Galinsky, K. (1988) ‘The anger of Aeneas’, AJP 109: 321-48 [e-resource]
–– 1994. ‘How to be philosophical about the end of the Aeneid’, ICS 19: 191-201 [e-resource]
Giusti, E. (2020) ‘Aeneid 12: a cyborg border war’, in G,M. Chesi and F. Spiegel (eds.) (2020) Classical Literature and Posthumanism, London, 275-83. [e-resource]
Gross, N. P. (2003-4) ‘Mantles woven with gold: Pallas’ shroud and the end of the Aeneid’, CJ 99: 135-56 [e-resource]
Hardie, P. R. (1997) ‘Closure in Latin epic’, in D. Roberts, F. Dunn and D. Fowler, eds. Classical closure: reading the end in Greek and Latin literature (Princeton) 139-62 [printed resource]
Kelly, A. (2014) ‘Apollonius and the end of the Aeneid’, CQ 64: 642-8 [e-resource]
Lyne, R. O. A. M. (1983) ‘Lavinia’s blush’, G&R 30: 55-64 (see also Cairns 2005, Fowler 1987)
Nicoll, W. S. M. (2001) ‘The Death of Turnus’, CQ 51, 190-200.
Perkell, C. (1997) ‘The lament of Juturna. Pathos and interpretation in the Aeneid’, TAPA 127: 257-86 [e-resource]
Putnam, M. C. J. (1990) ‘Anger, blindness, and insight in Virgil’s Aeneid’, Apeiron 23: 7-40 [e-resource]
–– (1999) ‘Aeneid 12: unity in closure’, in C. Perkell, ed. Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: an interpretive guide (Norman, OK) 210-30
–– (2011) The humanness of heroes: Studies in the conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid, Amsterdam [printed resource]
Schork, R. J. (1986) ‘The final simile in the Aeneid: Roman and Rutulian ramparts’, AJP 107: 260-70 [e-resource]
Stahl, H.-P. (1990) ‘The death of Turnus. Augustan Vergil and the political rival’, in K. A. Raaflaub and M. Toher, eds. Between republic and empire. Interpretations of Augustus and his principate (Berkeley) 174-211 [printed resource]
Thomas, R. F. (1991) ‘Furor and furiae in Virgil’, AJP 112, 261 [e-resource]
West, D. A. 1974. ‘The deaths of Hector and Turnus’, G&R 21: 21-31 [e-resource]
–– 1998. ‘The end and the meaning: Aeneid 12.791-842’, in H. P. Stahl, ed. Vergil’s Aeneid: Augustan epic and
political context (London) 303-18
Zeitlin, F. I. (1965) ‘An Analysis of Aeneid, XII, 176-211. The Differences Between the Oaths of Aeneas and Latinus’, AJP 86, 337-62.
Sallust
Sallust’s works are available in English in the 2016 edition of William W. Batstone, Oxford [available as e-book]. Levene 2010 and Kraus and Woodman 1997 are excellent starting points for an overview of the author. Syme 1964 is a classic.
Earl, D. C. (1961) The Political Thought of Sallust, Cambridge [in library]
*Feldherr, A. (2009) The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians, Cambridge [e-book]
Kapust, D. J. (2011) Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, Cambridge [e-book]
*Kraus, C. S. and Woodman, A. J. (1997) Latin Historians, Oxford [printed resource]
* Levene, D. S. (2010) ‘Sallust’ in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, vol. 6 (ed. M. Gagarine and E. Fantham), Oxford, pp. 200-202. [in library]
Mellor, R. (1999) The Roman Historians, London and New York, pp. 30-47 [e-book]
Poulsen, A.D. and Jönssen, A. (eds.) (2021) Historiography of Rome and its Empire, Leiden.
*Syme, R. (1964) Sallust, Berkeley [in library]
Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae
Please read Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae with the recommended commentary of Ramsey (J.T. Ramsey, Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, 2nd edition, Oxford 2007). We will discuss some of the following in class.
Batstone, W. W. (1986) ‘Incerta pro certis. An Interpretation of Sallust Bellum Catilinae 48.4.-49.4’, Ramus 15, 105-21.
--- (1988) ‘Quantum ingenium possum. On Sallust’s use of ingenium in Bellum Catilinae 53.6’, CJ 83, 301-6 [e-journal]
--- (1988) ‘The Antithesis of Virtue. Sallust’s Synkrisis and the Crisis of the Late Republic’, ClAnt 7, 1-29 [e-journal]
--- (1988) ‘Intellectual Conflict and Mimesis in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae,’ in J.W. Allison (ed.) Conflict, Antithesis, and the Ancient Historian, Columbus, OH, 112-32
--- (2010) ‘Catiline’s Speeches in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae’ in D. H. Berry and A. Erskine (eds.) Forms and Function in Roman Oratory, Cambridge, 227-46
*--- (2010) ‘Word at War: The Prequel’ in B. W. Breed, C. Damon and A. Rossi (2010) Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, Oxford, 47-51 [e-book]
Boyd, B. W. (1987) ‘Virtus effeminata and Sallust’s Semprionia’, TAPA 117, 183-201
Cairns, F. ‘Lentulus’ letter; Cicero In Catilinam 3.12, Sallust Bellum Catilinae 44.3-6’ Historia 61.1: 78-82
*Feldherr, A. (2012) ‘“Magna mihi copia est memorandi”: modes of historiography in the speeches of Caesar and Cato (Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51-4)’, in J. Grethlein and C.B. Krebs (eds.) Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography, Cambridge, 95-112. [e-book]
*--- (2013) ‘Free Spirits: Sallust and the Citation of Catiline’, AJPh 134.1, 49-66.
* Gunderson, E. (2000) ‘The history of the mind and the philosophy of history in Sallust’s BC’ Ramus 29.2: 85-126.
*Krebs, C. B. (2008) ‘Catiline’s Ravaged Mind: “uastus animus” (Sall. BC 5.5)’ in CQ 58.2, 682-6.
--- (2008) ‘The Imagery of “the Way” in the proem to Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae (1-4), AJPh 129.4, 581-94.
--- (2008) ‘“Hebescere uirtus” (Sall. Cat. 12.1): metaphorical Ambiguity’, HSPh 104, 231-6.
*Levene, D. S. (2000) ‘Sallust’s Catiline and Cato the Censor’, CQ 50, 170-91.
*Marincola, J. (2010) ‘Eros and Empire: Vergil and the Historians on Civil War’ in C. S. Kraus, J. Marincola and C. B. R. Pelling (eds.) Ancient Historiography and its Contexts, Oxford, 183-204 [e-book]
MacKay, L.A. (1962) ‘Sallust’s Catiline: Date and Purpose’, Phoenix 16, 302-11.
Melchior, A. (2010) ‘Citizen as enemy in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae’ in R.M.Rosen and I. Sluiter (eds.) Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity, Leiden, 391-415.
Muse, K. (2012) ‘Sallust’s Imitation of Greek Models at Catiline 14.2-3’, Mnemosyne 65, 40-61.
Pagán, V. E. (2010) ‘Forestalling Violence in Sallust and Vergil’, Mouseion (Canada) 10.1, 23-44 [e-journal]
Paul, G. M. (1985) ‘Sallust’s Sempronia. The Portrait of a Lady’, in PLLS 5, 9-22
Sklenár, R. (1998) ‘La Republique des Signes: Caesar, Cato, and the Language of Sallustian Morality’, TAPA 128, 205ff.
Wilkins, A. T. (1994) Villain or Hero: Sallust’s Portrayal of Catiline, New York [in library]
Williams, K. (2000) ‘Manlius’ mandata: Sallust BC 33’ Classical Philology 95.2: 160-71.
Wiseman, T. P. (2010) ‘The Two-Headed State: Hor Romans Explained Civil War’, in B. W. Breed, C. Damon and A. Rossi (2010) Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, Oxford, 25-44 [e-book]
On Sallust and Virgil
Pagán. V.E. (2010) ‘Forestalling violence in Sallust and Virgil’, Museion 101: 23-44.
Woodman, A.J. (2020) ‘Virgil and Sallust: Aeneid 10.354-79 and Bellum Catilinae 58-60’ CQ 72.2: 944-9.
On Catiline and the Conspiracy
Bradley, K. (1978) ‘Slaves and the Conspiracy of Catiline’, CP 73, 329-36.
*Harrison, I. (2008) ‘Catiline, Clodius, and Popular Politics at Rome during the 60s and 50s BCE’, BICS 51, 95-118.
*Levick, B. (2015) Catiline, London [in library]
Negri, G. (1978) The Case of Catiline, Rome [e-book]
Phillips, E. J. (1976) ‘Catiline’s Conspiracy’, Historia 25, 441-8
Seager, R. (1964) ‘The First Catilinarian Conspiracy’ Historia 13, 338-47.
--- (1973) ‘Iusta Catilinae’, Historia 22, 240-8.
Sumner, G. V. (1963) ‘The Last Journey of L. Sergius Catilina’, CP 58, 215-9.
Waters, K. H. (1970) ‘Cicero, Sallust and Catiline’, Historia 195-215.
On Cicero Catilinarians 1
Batstone, W. W. (1994) ‘Cicero’s Construction of Consular Ethos in the First Catilinarian’ TAPA 124, 211-66.
Craig, C. (1993) ‘Three Simple Questions for Teaching Cicero’s “First Catilinarian”, CJ 88, 255-67.
--- (2007) ‘Self-Restraint, Invective, and Credibility in Cicero’s ‘First Catilinarian Oration’, AJPh 128.3, 335-9.
Dyck, A.R. (2008) Cicero Catilinarians, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge.
Eagle, E. D. (1949) ‘Catiline and the “Concordia Ordinum”, Phoenix 3.1, 15-30.
Franzen, C. E. (2012-13) ‘Branding Catiline: Metaphorical Enslavement in the “First Catilinarian” Oration’, CW 106.3, 355-64.
Malcolm, D. A. (1979) ‘“Quo Usque Tandem…?” CQ 29.1, 219-20.
Van der Blom, H. (2010) Cicero’s Role Models: The political Strategy of a Newcomer, Oxford [e-book]
--- (2016) Oratory and Political Career in the late Roman Republic, Cambridge [e-book]