Prof:  Peter Struck
265 Logan Hall
Hours:  T 4 - 5; W 12 - 1
email:  struck@sas.upenn.edu

TEXTS:
Cicero, Pro Archia
Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, book X
Horace, Ars poetica

REFERENCE MATERIALS:
Secondary Readings:
Kennedy, History of Literary Criticism, vol 1: Classical Criticism (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1989)
E. Fraenkel, Horace (Oxford, 1957)
A. J. Podlecki, "The Peripatetics as Literary Critics," Phoenix 23 (1969) 114 ­ 137
G. M. A. Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics (Indianapolis:  Hackett, 1995)
Henri Irénée Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity, George Lamb, trans., Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Madison, Wis.:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1982)
Robert A.Kaster, Guardians of Language:  The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity, Transformation of the classical heritage. 11 (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988)

Commentaries:
Harold Gottoff, Cicero's Elegant Style: An Analysis of the Pro Archia (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1979)
W. Peterson, Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae, liber x (Chicago:  Bolchazy-Carducci, 1981)
C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry

ASSIGNMENTS:
This course will consist of three parts:
1) First and foremost, students are responsible for reading and mastering Cicero's Pro Archia, Horace's Ars Poetica, and chapter I, book X of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria.
2) We will also spend time in class, little at first but more as the semester continues, discussing theories of poetry and literature in the classical world and where these pivotal texts fit in the broader ancient conversation.
3) Finally, we will work as a group to assemble some notes toward a Latin syntax, to be published for class use on our web site.  Each student in the class will be responsible for researching and writing up a summary of several key features of Latin syntax (to be assigned as we go).  Hypertext is an especially useful way to organize grammatical information and this section of the class is meant not only as a review exercise but as a chance to produce collectively a reference work that each of us can take away and revisit for future work in Latin.

GRADES:
Grades will be assigned by the following formula:
midterm 1  25%
midterm 2  25%
syntax notes  10%
final exam  40%
 

SCHEDULE OF READINGS:
Thurs. Sept. 9  Intro.
Tues. Sept. 14
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 1
Thurs. Sept. 16
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 2
Tues. Sept. 21
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 3, 6
Thurs. Sept. 23
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 7 - 8
Tues. Sept. 28
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 9 - 10
Thurs. Sept. 30
    Reading Assignment:  Cicero, Pro Archia 11
Tues. Oct. 5  Lecture and Discussion:  Poets and Orators
    Reading Assignment: [TBA]
Thurs. Oct. 7 -- MIDTERM 1

Tues. Oct. 12
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.1 - 7
Thurs. Oct. 14
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.8 - 19
Tues. Oct. 19
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.20 - 30
Thurs. Oct. 21
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.31 - 45
Tues. Oct. 26
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.46 - 56
Thurs. Oct. 28
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.57 - 72
Tues. Nov. 2
    Reading Assignment:  Quintilian X.85 - 100
Thurs. Nov. 4  Lecture and Discussion:  Professional Keepers of the Texts
    Reading Assignment:  Kaster, Guardians of Language, pp. 1 ­ 50.
Tues. Nov. 9 -- MIDTERM 2

Thurs. Nov. 11
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 1 - 37
Tues. Nov. 16
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 38 - 98
Thurs. Nov. 18
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 99 - 152
Tues. Nov. 23
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 153 - 219
Thurs. Nov. 25  -- No class, Thanksgiving
Tues. Nov. 30
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 220 - 294
Thurs. Dec. 2
    Reading Assignment:  Horace, Ars Poetica 295 - 365
Tues. Dec. 7
    Reading Assignment: Horace, Ars Poetica 367 - 476
Thurs. Dec. 9  Lecture and Discussion:  The Roles of Literature in Roman Society
    Reading Assignment:  TBA

FINAL EXAM -- the final will be cumulative  tentative time: Monday 12/20 11 - 1