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 sbould expect to translate about 350 lines of Latin.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	18
Specified Learning Activities	54
Autonomous Student Learning	28
Total	100

Not applicable to this module.

Incompatibles:
LAT20170 - Introduction to Latin Texts


 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Project: Collation and comparison of various translations of a poem of Catullus. Students taking the module as part of a research degree programme may be offered an alternative by agreement with the M/C.	Week 6	n/a	Graded	No	20
Examination: End of semester exam, testing ability to translate passages of Catullus's poetry	1 hour End of Trimester Exam	No	Graded	No	50
Essay: c.2000 word essay. Students taking the module as part of a research degree programme may be offered an alternative to this assignment by agreement with the module co-ordinator.	Week 10	n/a	Graded	No	30

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Autumn	No

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

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).

Name	Role
Dr Helen Dixon	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Spring
Tutorial	Offering 1	Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33	Mon 11:00 - 11:50
Tutorial	Offering 1	Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33	Wed 12:00 - 12:50
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