Hannibal, by Sébastien Slodtz,
1687-8. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
N.B. A capital letter A, B, or C denotes a formal sub-section of Hammond and Amory’s text; a lower-case a, b, or c denotes an informal division of my own, where the boundary is the word or phrase mentioned afterward. After a specific “a”, “b” usually (unless further delineated) means “the rest”.
1. Tue, Sep 6, 2011
Introduction
General background: Please read my proposed method for working on your Latin reading for the year.
Introduction to working methods and processes for the class.
2. Thu, Sep 8, 2011
Foundation and Early Monarchy
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 1 and post your results in the forum for this week.
We’re starting off slowly, with not a great deal of reading, but I am eager for you to pursue the model I’ve outlined, in the hope of weaning you from English as a medium for your interaction with Latin. We’ll still talk a lot about grammar, and of course a good deal about Roman culture and history. We’ll steadily increase the volume of reading, though, throughout the year; with any luck you’ll be pretty flexible and hungry for more of it by the time we’re done.
At the same time, if the method doesn’t seem to be working, or is in need of revision, I’m open to it. Don’t wear yourself to a frazzle doing this — work the system, and then be done. There’s always the next one.
Zoch: Please read ch. 1, 2, 3.
Much of the history this covers is legendary history — not the kind of thing you’ll encounter in a more conventional modern history of Rome — but at least part of our goal here is to get a grasp on how the Romans saw themselves and their place in their tradition. This is a gateway to that. Read it, and get comfortable with the stories. They are their cultural myths — the lenses through which the Romans interpreted their national and cultural experiences.
Grammatical review: Endings of the first and second declensions. Please take quiz #1 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
We will not say a lot about the grammatical review matters in class, though if you have questions, you should by all means ask them. This doesn’t mean that they’re of secondary importance. The fact that they’re represented by twenty-three weekly assignments and corresponding quizzes should clue you in on that score. The goal of the quizzes is not to torment you or to accumulate scores that can be used against you: it’s to give you constant drill of the sort you need to have in order to have all the foundational material firmly in mind. Accordingly you can retake the quizzes all you like. You must retake each one at least weekly until you get a score of 100 on it. After that, if you revisit it, you won’t be penalized if your score drops below 100. Your lower scores will not be held against you. Not taking a quiz, however, will.
You will notice that I haven’t referred you to any particular source for your review. There are different approaches you can take, and frankly I don’t care which one you use. All the topics represented here can be found in Wheelock or Henle, which is where most of you first encountered them. They can also be found in any decent reference grammar, the best of which is (for my money) Allen and Greenough. There are others: Gildersleeve and Lodge, or Hale and Buck, or, if your German is up to it, Leuman-Hoffman-Szantyr’s Lateinische Grammatik in two volumes. (No, I didn’t really think so...). Any of those will suffice — a reference grammar being slightly preferable to a textbook. Wherever you look them up, take a little time to read about them, and consider them. Try to synthesize the pieces you know into a system. It shouldn’t take you a lot of time to do this each week, if your foundation is in good shape, but make it good time: don’t just squeeze it in in an offhand way. It will repay the consideration.
3. Tue, Sep 13, 2011
Foundation and Early Monarchy
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 2 and post your results in the forum for this week.
4. Thu, Sep 15, 2011
Foundation and Early Monarchy
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 3 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Endings of the third declension (including i-stems). Please take quiz #2 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
5. Tue, Sep 20, 2011
Foundation and Early Monarchy
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 4a (up through aluit) and post your results in the forum for this week.
6. Thu, Sep 22, 2011
Foundation and Early Monarchy
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 4b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Endings of the fourth and fifth declensions. Please take quiz #3 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
7. Tue, Sep 27, 2011
The Later Monarchy and Expulsion of the Tarquins
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 5a (up through expugnavit) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 4, 5.
8. Thu, Sep 29, 2011
The Later Monarchy and Expulsion of the Tarquins
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 5b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Adjectives, including odd adjectives in -ius. Please take quiz #4 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
9. Tue, Oct 4, 2011
The Later Monarchy and Expulsion of the Tarquins
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 6a (up through posita est) and post your results in the forum for this week.
10. Thu, Oct 6, 2011
The Later Monarchy and Expulsion of the Tarquins
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 6b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Please take quiz #5 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
11. Tue, Oct 11, 2011
The Republic: its Constitution, its Traitors, and its Heroes.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 7a (up through iudex) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 6, 7.
12. Thu, Oct 13, 2011
The Republic: its Constitution, its Traitors, and its Heroes.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 7b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 8, 9.
Grammatical review: Pronouns; strong and weak demonstratives and personal pronouns. Please take quiz #6 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
13. Tue, Oct 18, 2011
Wars with the Gauls, the Samnites, and the Greeks.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 8a (up through dictus) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 10, 11, 12.
14. Thu, Oct 20, 2011
Wars with the Gauls, the Samnites, and the Greeks.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 8b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Pronouns; relative, reflexive, intensive, personal, and interrogative. Please take quiz #7 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
15. Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Wars with the Gauls, the Samnites, and the Greeks.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 9A and post your results in the forum for this week.
16. Thu, Oct 27, 2011
Wars with the Gauls, the Samnites, and the Greeks.
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 9B and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Verbs of the first and second conjugations. Please take quiz #8 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
17. Tue, Nov 1, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 10a (up through periit) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 13, 14.
18. Thu, Nov 3, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 10b and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Verbs of the third and fourth conjugations. Please take quiz #9 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
Hannibal, by Sébastien Slodtz,
1687-8. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
19. Tue, Nov 8, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 11 and post your results in the forum for this week.
20. Thu, Nov 10, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 12a (up through reddidit) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: The perfect system of all verbs. Please take quiz #10 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
21. Tue, Nov 15, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 12b and post your results in the forum for this week.
22. Thu, Nov 17, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 13a (up through illustribus) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Participles. Please take quiz #11 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
23. Tue, Nov 22, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 13b and post your results in the forum for this week.
24. Tue, Nov 29, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 14a (up through non gero) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Syntax: the structure of sentences and clauses. Please take quiz #12 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
25. Thu, Dec 1, 2011
The Punic Wars
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 14b and post your results in the forum for this week.
26. Tue, Dec 6, 2011
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 15A, 15Ba (up through obierat) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 15.
Grammatical review: Simple sentences, agreement, substantivization. Please take quiz #13 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
27. Thu, Dec 8, 2011
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 15Bb and post your results in the forum for this week.
28. Tue, Dec 13, 2011
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 16A and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Tense, aspect, voice, and unusual main clauses. Please take quiz #14 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
29. Thu, Dec 15, 20119
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 16B and post your results in the forum for this week.
30. Tue, Jan 3, 2012
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 17Aa (up through omnium malorum fuere) and post your results in the forum for this week.
31. Thu, Jan 5, 2012
Rome and the East
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 17Ab, 17B, 17C and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Case usage: nominative, genitive, accusative. Please take quiz #15 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
32. Tue, Jan 10, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 18a (up through sequerentur) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 16, 17, 18.
Spartacus, by Denis Foyatier, 1830. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
33. Thu, Jan 12, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 18b, 19a (up through tribunatum) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Case usage: dative and ablative. Please take quiz #16 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
34. Tue, Jan 17, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 19b, 20Aa (up through conversa) and post your results in the forum for this week.
35. Thu, Jan 19, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 20Ab, 20B and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Prepositional objects, odd objects of special words. Please take quiz #17 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
36. Tue, Jan 24, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 21a (up through nobilitatis malum) and post your results in the forum for this week.
37. Thu, Jan 26, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 21b, 22a (up through sitae) and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Participial syntax: attributive, predicative, and other. Please take quiz #18 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
38. Tue, Jan 31, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 22b and post your results in the forum for this week.
39. Thu, Feb 2, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 23 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Participial syntax: ablative absolute, gerundive (with the gerund on the side), and supine. Please take quiz #19 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
40. Tue, Feb 7, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 24 and post your results in the forum for this week.
41. Thu, Feb 9, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 25 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Adverbial clauses: Purpose, result, proviso, concession, temporal, and others. Please take quiz #20 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
42. Tue, Feb 14, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 26 and post your results in the forum for this week.
43. Thu, Feb 16, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 27A, 27B, 27C and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Adverbial clauses: Conditions. Please take quiz #21 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
44. Tue, Feb 21, 2012
The Last Century of the Republic
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 28 and post your results in the forum for this week.
45. Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 29 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 19, 20, 21.
Grammatical review: Adjectival (relative) clauses. Please take quiz #22 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
46. Tue, Feb 28, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 30 and post your results in the forum for this week.
47. Thu, Mar 1, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 31 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Grammatical review: Indirect discourse: indirect statement, indirect question, and indirect command. Please take quiz #23 sometime this week, and re-take it every week until you get 100% on it.
48. Tue, Mar 6, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 32A, 32B and post your results in the forum for this week.
49. Thu, Mar 8, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 33 and post your results in the forum for this week.
50. Tue, Mar 13, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 34A, 34B and post your results in the forum for this week.
51. Thu, Mar 15, 20120
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 35A, 35B, 35C and post your results in the forum for this week.
Cato of Utica reading Plato’s Phaedo
before going to his death, by Jean-Baptiste Roman,
1832-40. Paris, Musée du Louvre.
52. Tue, Mar 20, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 36A, 36B, 36C and post your results in the forum for this week.
53. Thu, Mar 22, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 37 and post your results in the forum for this week.
54. Tue, Mar 27, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 38 and post your results in the forum for this week.
55. Thu, Mar 29, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 39 and post your results in the forum for this week.
56. Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 40 and post your results in the forum for this week.
57. Thu, Apr 12, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 41 and post your results in the forum for this week.
58. Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 42A, 42B and post your results in the forum for this week.
59. Thu, Apr 19, 2012
Collapse of the Republic: Pompey, Caesar, and Civil War
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 43A, 43B and post your results in the forum for this week.
60. Tue, Apr 24, 20120
Octavian to Augustus
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 44 and post your results in the forum for this week.
Zoch: Please read ch. 22, 23.
61. Thu, Apr 26, 2012
Octavian to Augustus
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 45 and post your results in the forum for this week.
62. Tue, May 1, 2012
Octavian to Augustus
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 46 and post your results in the forum for this week.
63. Thu, May 3, 2012
Octavian to Augustus
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 47A, 47B and post your results in the forum for this week.
64. Tue, May 8, 2012
Octavian to Augustus
Hammond and Amory: Please read section 48 and post your results in the forum for this week.
65. Thu, May 10, 2012
The Julio-Claudians
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
Zoch: Please read ch. 24.
66. Tue, May 15, 2012
The Julio-Claudians
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
67. Thu, May 17, 2012
The Flavians and the Pax Romana
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
Zoch: Please read ch. 25, 26.
68. Tue, May 22, 2012
The Flavians and the Pax Romana
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
69. Thu, May 24, 2012
Review
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
70. Tue, May 29, 2012
Review
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
71. Thu, May 31, 2012
Review
Hammond and Amory: Review of Texts
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