LATN 284: The Age of Augustus LATN 341: Vergil, Aeneid Spring Semester 2018

Our work together will pursue four main aims (plus the fifth, of having fun with them):

• inquiring and studying, to gain knowledge of Vergil's language and the use he made of it: vocabulary, syntax, meter, imagery, narration, and rhetoric
• analyzing and synthesizing both academically and creatively, to build facility in reading Latin and appreciating its communication
• developing skills of research and scholarly presentation, to enrich our own examination of the text with information available elsewhere about Vergil's literary, social, historical, and cultural context, his poetical techniques, his vision, and his creative synthesis; to organize information; to build arguments; and to share and debate our conclusions
• thinking critically about both our primary and our secondary research, to investigate, generate, test, and advance theories about how Vergil used Latin, poetic form, mythology, history, literary traditions, cultural ideals, and reflection so as to interpret and even to change Roman heritage from its past to its future

• Vergil, Aeneid, Books I-XII
  • online: J. B. Greenough, ed. (Boston: Ginn & Co. 1900), available from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University - cross-linked with study-tools including a historical lexicon, a detailed commentary, and an overview of Latin syntax
  • online: J. B. Greenough, ed. (Boston: Ginn & Co. 1900), available from The Latin Library - text only, links by the book
  • print: P. Vergili Maronis Opera, R. A. B. Mynors, ed. Oxford: Clarendon 1969 and rpt.) - considered the standard edition - text only
  • online: The Vergil Project, a collaborative project supported by the University of Pennsylvania - text adapted from F. A. Hirzel's 1900 Oxford Classical text (the one superseded by Mynors), hyperlinked with word-identification, concordance, commentaries, and translations)
• Fundamental Resources
  • online: Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, eds., A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1879 & rpt.
  • print: C. G. W. Glare, ed., Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1968-82, rpt. corr. 1996, 2nd edn. 2012
  • online: J. B. Greenough et al., eds., Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, Boston: Ginn & Company 1903; also through Dickinson College Commentaries
• Translation (for reading those portions of the text you don't read in Latin)
  • online: John Dryden, tr. (1697), available from Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
  • print: Robert Fagles, tr. (Penguin Group 2006)

• "Virgil," Poetry Foundation, uncredited but substantive overview and selected passages of translation
• Garrett Fagan, Augustus, biographical article at De Imperatoribus Romanis
• Portraits of Augustus from RomanEmperors.com, "busts, statues, coins, information, maps, images, and more"
• The Perseus Digital Library, an evolving digital library that originated with an extensive and still-growing center of resources for the study of the Classical world
• Lacus Curtius, a staggeringly rich treasurehouse of on-line resources for Roman archaeology and topography (especially); compiled by Bill Thayer
• Diotima, materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient Mediterranean world

• Verb-hunt grid: model for some written homework
• Substantive-hunt grid: model for some written homework
• Allen & Greenough, Latin reference grammar available from Perseus Digital Library and from Dickinson College Commentaries
• Lewis and Short, Latin lexicon also available from Perseus Digital Library
• Hexametrica, online introduction to Latin hexameter verse, maintained by Dr. Dan Curley of the Classics Department of Skidmore College
• Harry C. Schnur, Do-It-Yourself: How to Write Latin Verse, The Classical Journal 52 (1957) 353-357, reprinted within Marc Moskowitz's site Contemporary Latin Poetry
• Poetry Recital by faculty of the Department of Classics at Harvard University, recorded by 2001
• Nuntii Latini offers current news briefs in Latin on a weekly basis. Produced by Radiophonia Finnica Generalis, Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster; production schedule recently extended to 2019.

• Guide to Writing Academic Papers: a strategic checklist devised by your instructor (hint, hint)
• Guide to Beginning Research on Topics in Classical Studies: suggestions and resources
• Loyola Libraries' Subject Guide to Classical Studies, prepared by Classical Studies Bibliographer Jane Currie: a research guide to help identify and access core research resources relating to Classical Civilization, ancient Greek, or Latin.
• Oxford Bibliographies Online - Classics: annotated bibliographies compiled by leading scholars in the relevant fields, including a historical overview of our period (look under History, Roman: Late Antiquity), some of our major primary sources, and a couple of important cultural topics
• Loyola Writing Program's Statement of Grading Standards. It credits the Rhetoric Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Other universities also observe similar criteria: these expectations are held widely.
• 1st edn. (1918) of William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style: print editions have been updated and it's well worth getting a copy if you don't own one already, but in whatever edition you use it, Strunk and White is the classic guide to desirable American prose style.
• How to use apostrophes, or else.
• The the impotence of proofreading by Taylor Mali.
• Writing Program and Writing Center, Loyola Hall, LSC, 773-508-8468, writingctr@luc.edu

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• Center for Tutoring & Academic Excellence, Sullivan Center Room 245, LSC; 773-508-7708 and 773-508-3194; tutoringcenter@luc.edu
• Dean of Students' Office, Student Life & Engagement, Damen Student Center, South Wing, Suite 300, LSC; 773-508-8840, deanofstudents@luc.edu
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Revised 18 January 2018 by jlong1@luc.edu
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