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NB: Horace’s Birthday Party will take place on December
8th; save the date!
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| 9/4: Introduction to Lyric |
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Primary Readings: Sappho 31 (in English), Catullus 51 Secondary Readings: D.S. Raven, Latin Metre, p. 17-21, Halporn p. 3-10, 59-67; T.P. Wiseman, ‘The poet and his audience,’ in Catullus and his world: a reappraisal, Cambridge Univ. Press 1985, 124-129. |
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9/11 and 9/13: Wedding songs |
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Primary Readings: Catullus 62 (all), 64.328-381 (wedding hymn of the Fates) Secondary reading: T.P. Wiseman, ‘The Transpadane background’ and ‘The beauty of innocence,’ in Catullus and his world, 107-124. |
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9/18: Lyric love poems |
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Primary Readings: Catullus 24, 8, 70, 72, 81, 82, 83, 85, 87 Secondary reading: Steele Commager, from The Odes of Horace: A critical study, Yale Univ. Press 1962, rpt. Univ. of OK Press 1995, 141-159 (“Qualities of Imagination: The Amatory Odes”); T.P. Wiseman, from ‘Falso nomine’ and ‘The introductory sequence,’ in Catullus and his world, 130-146. |
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9/20: More lyric love poems |
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Primary Readings: Catullus 11 |
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9/25: Love & wine deities |
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Primary Readings: Anacreon on Eros (in English) Pindar (dithyramb) frags. of Laevius on handout (Venus) Catullus 45 (Acmen Septimius suos amores); *** Horace 1.19 (Mater saeva Cupidinum); 1.30 (short; to Venus); 2.19 (Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus) Seneca, Oedipus 403-428f. (to Bacchus; lucidum caeli decus, huc ades; astrophic canticum) |
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9/27: Woods and deities |
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Primary Readings: Secondary reading: Steele Commager, from “The World of Nature: Time and Change,” in The Odes of Horace, 235-254. |
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10/2: Music deities |
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Primary Readings: Horace 1.24 (dirge for Varus, Melpomene, mention of Vergil, Thracian Orpheus, Mercury’s flock); 1.26 (Musis amicus tristitiam et metus, Lamia); 1.32 (Poscimur); more stanzas from 3.4 (Horace among Muses); 4.3 (Quem tu, Melpomene, semel) |
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10/4: Girlfriends and boyfriends |
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Primary Readings: Horace 1.23 (Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloë); 2.12 (Licymnia = Terentia, cf. Schol. Sat. 1.2.64); 1.11 & 4.10 (to Leuconoë and Ligurinus); 1.33 (jokes of Venus); 3.20 (rivals) Secondary reading: T.P. Wiseman, “A world not ours,” in Catullus and his world, 1-14. |
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10/9: Patrons and lyric friends |
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Primary Readings: Catullus 50 (Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi); 96 (response to grief-song sent by Calvus) 30 (Alfene immemor atque unanimis false sodalibus) & 38 (Malest, Cornifici, tuo Catullo) Horace 1.1 (dedication to Maecenas); 4.11 (Maecenas’ birthday) |
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0/11: Lyric enemies |
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Primary Readings: Archilochus *** (in English) Sappho *** (in English) Catullus 37 (Salax taberna uosque contubernales, Lesbia’s lovers, choliambic); 40 (Quaenam te mala mens, miselle Rauide), 36 (Annales Volusi, cacata carta); 42 (Adeste hendecasyllabi); 16 and 41; 21; 47 (Porci et Socration, duae sinistrae), 49 (to Cicero), 93 (Caesar) Secondary reading: W. Fitzgerald,
‘The anxieties of publication,’ in Catullan Provocations: Lyric poetry
and the drama of position, Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press 1995, 44-55. |
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10/16: Dramatic choral lyrics |
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Primary Readings: Aristophanes, Birds chorus (in English) Plautus, Rudens 290-305 Seneca, Agamemnon 310-407 |
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10/18: Girls’ and boys’ dances |
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Primary Readings: Catullus 34 (Dianae sumus in fide) Horace, Carmina 1.21; 3.1 (opening and closing stanzas), 3.14 |
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10/23: Horace’s Carmen saeculare |
| Secondary Reading: E. Fraenkel, Horace ch. VII (“Carmen Saeculare”), 364-382; M. Putnam, Horace’s Carmen saeculare: ritual magic and the poet’s art, New Haven 2000, ***-*** (on reserve) |
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10/25: Later choral traditions |
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10/30: Traveling |
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Primary Readings: Horace 1.3 (Sic te diva potens Cypri); 3.10 (if she were far away); 1.36 (return of Damalis) |
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11/1: Foreign places and the empire |
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Primary Readings: Statius 4.5 (Severus, Libya-born, is a true Roman) |
| Please vote on Tuesday, 11/6! |
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11/8: Catullus and Home |
| Primary Readings: Catullus 9 (homecoming of Veranius); 31 (Paene insularum, Sirmio, insularumque/ ocelle); 44 (O funde noster) |
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11/13: Horace and Home |
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Primary Readings: Secondary Reading: G. Highet, on Horace’s Tivoli, from Poets in a Landscape, London 1957, 121-126; on the Odes, 126-137; on Horace’s Sabine farm, 137-152. |
| 11/15: Catch-up day |
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11/20: Death and poetry |
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Primary Readings: Horace Carmina 1.4, 1.10 (Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis), 2.14 (Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume); 2.17 (Cur me querelis exanimas tuis? to Maecenas on linked fates); 3.11 (Mercury, story of Danaids); 4.7; 4.10 A.E. Housman, “The merry guide”; Diffugere nives (English poem & translation) Secondary Reading: Steele Commager, “Nature’s Decorum and Death,” in The Odes of Horace, 265-291; M. Putnam, “Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis,” in Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy and Epic, Princeton 1982, 99-101 (on reserve) |
| 11/27: Horace 4.2 (Pindar ode); Pindar *** (in English) |
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11/29: Some poems with Greek “models” |
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Primary Readings: Anacreon 51 (compare Horace 1.23, Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe, already read) Pindar (dithyramb; other?) Bacchylides (?); Horace 1.15, ~ Statius Achilleis 1.20f. Callimachus **, Philodemus ** Secondary Reading: W.R. Johnson, “In the Birdcage of the Muses,” in The idea of lyric: lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry, Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press 1982 (on reserve) |
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12/4: Late antique and medieval lyrics |
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Primary Readings: Gaselee’s poem #12 (anon., 10th cent., Verona) |
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12/6: Humanist/Renaissance and modern lyrics |
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Primary Readings: Milton, Swinburne, other adaptations of lyric meter Rhythm & words in modern poetry—H.D., Eliot/Pound, Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins modern metrical experiments Secondary reading: from Carol Maddison, Apollo and the nine: a history of the ode, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press 1960; W. Fitzgerald, “Between Men,” in Catullan Provocations, 212-235; T.P. Wiseman, ‘The afterlife of Lesbia,’ in Catullus and his world, 211-245. |