Latin 307 SP 2023
Prof. Catherine Connors, Department of Classics
Denny 262 B
This course serves as an introduction to the first half of Vergil's Aeneid, with readings in Latin from Books 1, 2, 4, and 6. The aim is to acquire familiarity with the poetry, themes, style, and vocabulary of this important poem. Attention will be paid in class to translation of selected passages and reading of the Vergilian hexameter as well as discussion of broader issues such as the idea of epic, tradition, imitation, innovation, Romanitas, empire, and the Augustan age. The course involves consolidation and review of Latin grammar with exercises in prose composition.
Texts:
Barbara Weiden Boyd (ed.), Vergil’s Aeneid: Expanded Collection, Bolchazy-Carducci 2013
Standard reference grammar:
J.H. Allen and J.B. Greenough, revised by Anne Mahoney, A New Latin Grammar Focus Publishing 2001.
Older pre-Mahoney editions of Allen and Greenough are available free online through UW Libraries and elsewhere, and are fine for most purposes. Here is a link to a free on-line facsimile which has the advantage of showing the actual pages and section numbers of the paper book: https://archive.org/stream/allengreenough.
An extra grammatical resource is the ‘grammatical appendix’ which was part of the old Pharr version of the textbook (see below). Boyd has preserved the references to this in her commentary (in notes of the form ‘App. 315’), and has put the appendix itself on line:
https://www.bolchazy.com/Assets/Bolchazy/extras/vergilgrammaticalappendix.pdf