Syllabus

The following lecture content is indicative and may be subject to small-level change. Reading (both primary and secondary) for each week will be available on the Moodle page for this module. The weeks refer to the timetable weeks for Term 2 (Spring 2027).

1. Introduction: Scaliger, Opuscula and the Appendix
2. Authorship and the Force of Anonymity
3. Zombie Virgil: The Culex
4. Experimental Cuisine: Pesto at its Limits
5. The Good Life: Moretum and Copa
6. [Reading week]
7. (Anti-)Pastoral: Dirae and Lydia
8. When Lydia Met Sappho
9. Post Post Script: Swotting Flies in Flavian Poetry
10. Queer Appendages