Summer Preparation

The most important thing is to read those poems of the Appendix that constitute the core texts, which can all be found in the the Loeb: Fairclough, H.R. (2001). Virgil: Aeneid 7–12; Appendix Vergiliana. rev. G.P. Goold (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). A more modern translation by the module convenor (based on more up-to-date Latin texts) will also be circulated in advance of the course starting. These poems are:

Catalepton
Copa
Culex
Dirae
Lydia
Moretum
Statius Silvae 2.7

In anticipation of the publication of the full module reading list, the following pieces of bibliography will provide good context to students wanting to get ahead over summer (bold indicates highly recommended preparation):

Franklinos, T. & L. Fulkerson, eds, (2020). Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ovidiana. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Geue, T. (2019). Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
Kayachev, B., ed., (2021). Poems without Poets: Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry. (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society).
McGill, S. (2019). ‘The Appendix Vergiliana’, in F. Mac Góráin & C. Martindale eds, The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. 2^nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 63–76.
Peirano Garrison, I. (2023). ‘Forgery, Pseudepigrapha, and Other Typologies of Continuation in Latin Literature’, in J. N. Hopkins & S. McGill eds, Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 145–65.
Peirano, I. (2012). The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Sharrock, A. (2024). ‘Author and Identity’, in C. Whitton & R. Gibson eds, The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 158–207.

Weekly readings will appear on Moodle, which students will be able to access when the course begins.