Craige B. Champion
Associate Professor of History
306 Maxwell Hall
cbchamp@maxwell.syr.edu
(315) 443-1264
Texts
Steven M. Cerutti, Cicero: pro Archia Poeta Oratio
(Bolchazy-Carducci, 1998). ISBN: 086516402-9.
The Oxford Latin Dictionary, ed. Morwood (Oxford,
1997). ISBN: 019860139-5.
Syllabus
The electronic syllabus features a link to William
Whitaker's Words, a quick-fix for translation and morphology of
Latin words.
Requirements
Regular attendance and participation are necessary for
successful completion of this course. There are weekly quizzes, three examinations,
and an in-class reading and short stylistic analysis of any passage from
the pro Archia of your choosing.
Key to Assignments
Wheelock = Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin,
5th ed. (HarperCollins, 1995).
Cicero = Steven M. Cerutti, Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta
Oratio (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1998).
Habicht = Christian Habicht, Cicero the Politician
(Johns Hopkins, 1990).
PART ONE: GRAMMAR REVIEW
One
Course Business.
Review of Participles and the Ablative Absolute Construction.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 23, P&R 1-2,
5, 7, 12-14, 7; SA 1, 6, 10, 13-14.
Two
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Dative of Agent and Passive Periphrastic.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 24, P&R 1-3,
8; SA 1-8.
Three
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Indirect Statement.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 25, P&R 1-2,
7, 10, 14; SA 6-9.
Four
Quiz on First-Week Review.
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Purpose Clauses and Result Clauses.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 28, P&R 3-4,
8, SA 6, 10-11; Unit 29, SA 3-6, 10.
Five
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Sequence of Tenses and Indirect Question.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 30, P&R 1-2,
6-8, SA 1-3, 10.
Six
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Cum-Clauses.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 31, P&R 3, 6,
10, SA 5-7.
Seven
Quiz on Second-Week Review.
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Conditional Sentences.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 33, P&R 1, 3-6;
SA
1, 4-8. Begin Reading Habicht.
Eight
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Deponent Verbs and Ablatives with Special Deponents.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 34, P&R 1-2,
5-8, SA 3, 10, 12-13. Continue Reading Habicht.
Nine
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Jussive Noun Clauses or Indirect Commands.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 36, P&R 1, 3,
5, 10, SA 6, 14-15. Continue Reading Habicht.
Ten
Quiz on Third-Week Review.
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Relative Clauses of Characteristic.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 38, P&R 4, 7-8,
SA
2-3, 6, 10, 12. Continue Reading Habicht.
Eleven
Selected sentences from Homework.
Review of Gerund and Gerundive.
Assignment: Wheelock, Unit 39, P&R 3, 6-8,
11; SA 1, 3. Continue Reading Habicht.
Twelve
Selected sentences from Homework.
Sight Reading: Excerpts from Cicero's First Catilinarian
in Wheelock, pp. 299-303.
Assignment: Finish Excerpts from Cicero's First
Catilinarian. Continue Reading Habicht.
Thirteen
Finish Excerpts from Cicero's First Catilinarian.
Mini-Lecture
I: An Overview of Roman History.
Assignment: Finish Reading Habicht.
PART TWO: CONTEXTS FOR CICERO'S PRO ARCHIA
Fourteen
Mini-Lecture
II: The Rise of Rome to World Power and the Crisis of the Late Republic.
Fifteen
Mini-Lecture
III: Roman Oratory and the Career of Cicero.
Sixteen
Mini-Lecture
IV: The Romans and Greek Culture.
Assignment: Cicero pp. xiii-xxi; Cicero 1 (pp. 2-5).
PART THREE: CICERO'S PRO ARCHIA
Seventeen
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 1 (pp. 2-5).
Assignment: Cicero 2 (pp. 5-7).
Eighteen
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 1-2 (pp. 2-7).
Assignment: Cicero 3-4 (pp. 7-13).
Nineteen
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 3-4.
Review Exordium (sections 1-4).
Assignment: Cicero 5-7 (pp. 13-21).
Twenty
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 5-7.
Review Narratio (sections 4-7).
Assignment: Review Exordium and Narratio
for First Examination.
Twenty-One
First Examination.
Assignment: Cicero 8 (pp. 21-23).
Twenty-Two
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 8.
Assignment: Cicero 9-10 (pp. 24-29).
Twenty-Three
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 9-10.
Assignmnent: Cicero 11 (pp. 28-31); Review Refutatio
(sections 8-11).
Twenty-Four
Quiz on Refutatio (sections 8-11).
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 11.
Assignment: Cicero 12 (pp. 30-35).
Twenty-Five
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 12.
Assignment: Cicero 13-14 (pp. 35-39).
Twenty-Six
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 13-14.
Assignment: Cicero 15-16 (pp. 40-45).
Twenty-Seven
Quiz on Cicero 12-16.
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 15-16.
Assignment: Cicero 17-18 (pp. 44-49).
Twenty-Eight
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 17-18.
Assignment: Cicero 19-20 (pp. 48-53).
Twenty-Nine
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 19-20.
Assignment: Cicero 21-22 (pp. 53-57).
Thirty
Quiz on Cicero 17-22.
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 21-22.
Assignment: Cicero 23-24 (pp. 58-63).
Thirty-One
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 23-24.
Assignment: Cicero 25-26 (pp. 62-67).
Thirty-Two
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 25-26.
Assignment: Cicero 27-28 (pp. 66-71).
Thirty-Three
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 27-28.
Review of Cicero 8-28
Assignment: Study for Second Examination.
Thirty-Four
Second Examination.
Assignment: Cicero 29-30 (pp. 70-75).
Thirty-Five
Reading and Analysis of Cicero 29-30.
Assignment: Peroratio = Cicero 31-32 (pp. 76-79).
Thirty-Six
Reading and Analysis of Peroratio.
Summary of pro Archia.
Assignment: Review pro Archia.
Thirty-Seven
Quiz on Peroratio.
Discussion of In-Class Projects.
Assignment: Prepare Reading and Analysis of Passage
from pro Archia.
Thirty-Eight
Sight Reading: Cicero,
Brutus
26 and QFr. 1.1.27-8.
Assignment: Prepare Reading and Analysis of Passage
from pro Archia.
Thirty-Nine
Sight Reading: Cicero,
Orator
55-6; de Oratore 1.13; Flacc. 62.
Assignment: Prepare Reading and Analysis of Passage
from pro Archia.
Forty
Sight Reading: Livy
on Cicero's Death (Livy, Fragments, 120.50 = Seneca,
Suasoriae,
6.17 (7) = Wheelock, pg. 318 [abridged]).
Assignment: Prepare Reading and Analysis of Passage
from pro Archia.
Forty-One
In-Class Readings and Stylistic Analyses of pro Archia.
Forty-Two
In-Class Readings and Stylistic Analyses of pro Archia.