LATIN 1: Reports
From time to time during the semester (you will be notified a couple of days in advance), each student will have the opportunity to give a formal oral report (of 10 minutes) to the class on one or another subject in Roman history, politics, literature, culture and civilization. You may use whatever materials you want in presenting your papers, e.g. laptop computer, PowerPoint presentations, visual aids, handouts, etc. These reports are graded, and are subject to being tested upon on the Final Exam, and are part of the learning strategy in fulfilment of the official Goals of this course.
Topics:
Your report should focus on what you think your fellow students need to know in order to understand the items that we are translating in the "Loci Antiqui" in the textbook. You will choose your term from the following list:
TOPIC: |
TOPIC: |
| Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.) |
Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.) |
| Phaedrus |
Catiline (L. Sergius Catilina) |
| Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) |
Horace (65-8 B.C.) |
| Seneca the Younger (4 B.C.-65 AD) |
Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) |
| Catullus (ca. 90-50 B.C.) |
M. Porcius Cato the Censor |
| Senate |
Terence (P. Terentius Afer) |
| Populus |
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) |
| Plebs |
legion(s) |
| Comitia |
Marcus Antonius |
| Consilium Plebis |
Romulus and Remus |
| consul |
Caligula |
| forum |
Nero |
| Martial |
Ovid |
| Leonidas, King of Sparta & Thermopylae |
Homer |
Bibliography:
Some good places to look up basic information:
- Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd edition
- Oxford Companion to Classical Literature 2nd edition (ed. Margaret Howatson)
- Oxford History of the Classical World (ed. J. Boardman, J. Griffin & O. Murray) (1986).
- Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome (Oxford 1998)
- J. W. Duff, A Literary History of Rome, from the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age 3rd edition (London 1961).
- J. W. Duff and A. M. Duff, A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age 2nd ed. (London 1953).
- H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature 5th edition (London 1962).
- Matthias Gelzer, Caesar (Oxford: Blackwell 1968).
- Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (University of California pb)
- Manfred Fuhrmann, Cicero and the Roman Republic (Oxford: Blackwell 1992).
- Donald Dudley, Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City & its Monuments (1967).
- Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization, A Sourcebook,. Vol. I: The Republic
