LAT20130

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- Translate the set texts.
- Explain the course of the affair between Cicero and Clodius as depicted in the poetry.
- Recognise the main features of Catullus' style.
- Identify the key features of the 'New Poetry'.
- Recount the major political and social events of the period 63-54BC and evaluate the significance or otherwise of these events to the poetry of Catullus.

Indicative Module Content:

This module is language intensive, focused on Latin-to-English translation of unadapted passages of Catullus. Students should expect to translate about 350 lines of Latin.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Class time will be devoted to translation of the primary text, with some discussion of points of historical and literary interest along the way.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Incompatibles:
LAT20170 - Introduction to Latin Texts


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will receive their mid-term essay back in a one-on-one session to be scheduled shortly after submission.

Course text

K.Quinn, Catullus (Bristol Classical Press, 1996).

Suggested further reading

R.Armstrong, “Journeys and Nostalgia in Catullus.” Classical Journal 109.1 (2013)
A.Burl, Catullus: a poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar (London, 2004).
J.Ferguson, Catullus. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 20 (Oxford 1988).
J.Godwin, Catullus: The Shorter Poems (Aris & Phillips, 1999).
R.Jenkyns, Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus, Juvenal (London, 1982).
A.Kolson Hurley, Ancients in Action: Catullus (Bristol, 2004).
R.O.A.M.Lyne, The Latin Love Poets: From Catullus to Horace (Oxford, 1980).
C.H.Martin, Catullus (New Haven, 1992).
L.Morgan, “Escapes from Orthodoxy: Poetry of the Late Republic.” In O.Taplin (ed.) Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Oxford, 2000), pp.336-358. Photocopy available on request.
R.G.M.Nisbet, “The Poets of the Late Republic: Catullus.” In Boardman, Griffin & Murray (eds.) The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford, 1986), pp.487-494.
M.C.J.Putnam, Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy and Epic (Princeton, 1982).
K.Quinn, The Catullan Revolution (Cambridge, 1959; reprinted Bristol, 1999).
K.Quinn, Catullus: an interpretation (London, 1972).
A.L.Wheeler, Catullus and the Tradition of Ancient Poetry (Berkeley, 1934).
T.P.Wiseman, Catullan Questions (Leicester, 1969).
T.P.Wiseman, Catullus and his World: A Reappraisal (Cambridge, 1985).

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