BASC61122 - Alumni Sequence: The Romans Year I

Course Description

The Winter Seminar will explore Roman poetry, with themes of love and nature intertwining with ideas of aesthetics, passion, morality, and violence. The Winter Quarter tutorial will focus on the Roman statesman Cicero in his roles as lawyer, politician and philosopher at the end of the Republic. We will read a selection of his speeches and philosophical works, bracketed by Plutarch's "Life" and Petrarch's "Letters". Course syllabi appear for each section to the right.

Course Outline

Catullus, The Poems of Catullus trans. Martin (John's Hopkins University Press) 978-0801839269

Virgil, The Eclogues, The Georgics (Oxford World’s Classics) 978-0199554096

Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World’s Classics) trans. David West 978-0199555277

Ovid Metamorphoses, (Mariner) Trans. Allen Mandelbaum 978-0156001267

Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives Vol. 2 (Modern Library Classics) 978-0375756771

Cicero, Ten Speeches (Hackett Classics) 978-0872209893

Cicero, Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge University Press) 978-0521348355

Petrarch Letters to Cicero PDF (on Canvas)

Notes

Online registration deadline: Dec. 22, 5 PM CT

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