Required texts:
  • Required: An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses, by Ellen D. Finkelpearl
    • ISBN-13: 978-0865167148. ISBN-10: 0865167141
  • Required: The Student's Catullus (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) Fourth Edition, by Daniel Garrison
    • ​ISBN-13: 978-0806142326. ISBN-10: 9780806142326
  • Required: The Golden Ass, by Apuleius and translated by E.J. Kenney. (ISBN-9780865167148)
  • Recommended: Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar (English and Latin edition)
    • ISBN-13: 978-1585100279. ISBN-10: 1585100277

All books can be purchased in the Haverford College bookstore. If you choose to acquire your books from other places, please ensure that you use the ISBNs given here to acquire the same editions as listed above. If purchasing books for this course will impose any financial difficulties for you, please considering reaching out to The Sportula, an amazing microgrants organization that helps Classics students afford educational materials quickly and without barriers, or Haverford's LIFTFAR program.

Online resources:
  • Join the class Quizlet page for course-customized vocabulary resources
  • Join the class Slack page for individual and group messaging and discussion boards
  • Visit The Bridge to make your own customized vocabulary lists
  • Check the ongoing Google document with content notes for class readings and discussions

WEEK 1

Wednesday, January 23

Homework:
  • No homework required in advance of this session.
In class:
  • Syllabus overview & discussion of course expectations

Friday, January 25

Homework:
  • Read the syllabus.​
  • Take student informational survey.
  • Study vocabulary for Catullus 1, 2, and 3 on Quizlet set. NB: This set includes all the vocabulary for Catullus 1-3, minus words from Latin 101 this past fall. If you want sets with EVERY word from the poems, go to the class Quizlet page and create combined sets out of the individual poem sets (these include ALL the words in each poem).
  • Prepare (in Latin), using Professor Mulligan's preparation guidelines from Latin 101 (see here):
    • Catullus 1, 2, 3
    • Read all notes in Garrison’s commentary on these poems (pp. 93-94). You will be expected to read all notes in the commentary for each poem we read the semester. Take note of any of the grammatical explanations you don't understand, and familiarize yourself with these concepts in your grammar book. If you have further questions, ask them in class!

WEEK 2


Monday, January 28
  • Study vocabulary for Catullus 5-8, 12-14
  • Take Week 2 vocabulary quiz
    • Step 1. Click here.
    • Step 2. Click options.
    • Step 3a. Under "Question Types," select ONLY "Written", and deselect all other options ("Matching", "Multiple Choice", and "True/False" should be deselected).
    • Step 3b. Under "Answer With," select both Latin and English.
    • Step 3c. Under "Question Limit," type in 20. That means you will only be quizzed on twenty random words in the set.
    • Step 4. Click "Create new test."
    • Step 5. Type in your answers.
    • Step 6. Click "Check answers."
    • Step 6a. You make retake this test as many times as you like before sending the results to Professor Silverblank. 
      • Note: If you've typed an answer that Quizlet marks as incorrect, but which you think may count for credit, not to worry: I will be checking your answers as well as the scores, so if you've gotten something right but the software marked it as "incorrect," I will make sure you get the points added to your score.
    • Step 7. Click "Print Test."
    • Step 8. Create a PDF of test and send it to Professor Silverblank in a direct message on Slack.
  • Optional: Read (in English): Georgia Irby, "Basic Guide to Latin Meter and Scansion" (from A Little Latin Reader)
  • Scan: Catullus 5, 6
  • Read poems aloud 2x each, reciting syllables according to their scanned lengths: Catullus 5, 6
  • Write reading journal on Catullus 5 & 6, preferably in a Google doc shared with hsilverb@haverford.edu
    • Handout on reading journals (distributed in class on 1/23)

In class:
  • Continue Catullus 2, 3 from last Friday's class
  • Continue practicing our hendecasyllables
  • Introducing: Lesbia!
  • Catullus 5, 6

Wednesday, January 30

Homework:
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 7, 8, 12 

In class:
  • ​Professor Silverblank away; class is covered by Professor Mulligan today!
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Friday, February 1

Homework:
  • Study Catullus 5-8, 12 for in-class reading quiz
  • Read (in English): Julia Haig Gaisser, “Introduction: The Young Poet in Rome”, pp. 1-21 in Catullus.
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 13, 14

In class:

WEEK 3

Monday, February 4

Homework:
  • Study Week 3 vocabulary set
  • Complete & submit PDF of Week 3 vocabulary quiz (on poems 14, 16, 22, 25, 27-31) via direct message on Slack
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 14 (cont. from Friday), 16 & update reading journal

Wednesday, February 6

Homework:
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 22, 25, 27, 28

​Friday, February 8

Homework:

WEEK 4

Monday, February 11

Homework:
  • Study Week 4 vocabulary set (Catullus 31-38, 42, 43, 45)
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 4 vocabulary quiz
  • Prepare: Catullus 31, 32, 33, 34 & update reading journal

Wednesday, February 13

Homework:
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 35-38

In class:
  • Catullus 35-38

Friday, February 15

Homework:
In class:
  • Weekly reading quiz (29-38)
  • Catullus 42, 43, 45

​WEEK 5

Monday, February 18

Homework:
  • Study Week 5 vocabulary set on Catullus 46, 48-51, 55-57, 59-60
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 5 vocabulary quiz
  • Prepare Catullus 46, 48, 49, 50

In class:
  • Catullus 46, 48, 49, 50

Wednesday, February 20

Homework:
  • Prepare (in Latin): 51, 55-57

In class:
  • SNOW DAY!
  • We were supposed to cover Catullus 51, 55-57
  • Prof. Silverblank will make videos of these poems, and they will feature in Friday's discussions and possibly Friday's quiz.

​Friday, February 22

Homework:
  • Study for in-class translation quiz (10 minutes) on Catullus 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55-57
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 58-60, 63.1-20
  • No English reading required in advance of this class, but do reread or revisit Ellen Greene's article from last week, as it will feature in our discussion today.

In class:
  • Reading quiz (collected at 10:45am)
  • Catullus 51, 58-60

​WEEK 6

Monday, February 25

Homework:
  • Study Week 6 vocabulary set on Catullus 63, 65, 67, 69-72, 75-76
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 6 vocabulary quiz
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 63.31-93

In class:
  • Catullus 63.31-93​

Wednesday, February 27​

Homework:
  • Prepare (in Latin): Catullus 65, 67

In class:
  • Catullus 65, 67

Friday, March 1

Homework:
In class:
  • 10 minute reading quiz on Catullus 63, 65, 67
  • Catullus 69-72, 74-76

WEEK 7

Monday, March 4

Homework:
  • Study Week 7 vocabulary set on Catullus 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85-7, 91-3, 95-55
  • Take & submit PDF week 7 vocab quiz
  • Read in Latin: Catullus 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 86

In class:
  • Catullus 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 86

Wednesday, March 6

Homework:
  • Catullus 87, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100

In class:
  • Catullus 87, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100

Friday, March 8

Homework:
  • Read in Latin: Catullus 85, 101
  • Note: no reading quiz this week! Instead, write literary (not hyper-literal translationese) translations of the poems and bring your translations to class with you on Friday. Your translations will be collected and read, but not graded, by Professor Silverblank. Have fun with this assignment: you have less Latin to read than usual, and thus more time to do a deep dive into the language and your interpretation of Catullus' poetry.

In class:
  • ​Read Catullus 85, 101 alongside Anne Carson's translations

Spring break: March 9-17

​WEEK 8

Monday, March 18

Homework:
  • Study Week 8 vocabulary set (104, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116)
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 8 vocabulary quiz

In class:
  • Catullus 104, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116

Wednesday, March 20

Homework:
  • Review all Catullus poems!

In class:
  • Review for test

​Friday, March 22

Homework:
  • Study for test on all Catullus poems read this semester

In class:
  • No class: take-home test due by 12pm to Professor Silverblank's office (Hall 203)

​WEEK 9

Monday, March 25

Homework:
  • Study Week 9 vocabulary set
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 9 vocabulary quiz
  • Read & take notes on:
    • independent uses of the subjunctive (A&G pp. 278-283)
    • subjunctive in subordinate clauses in indirect discourse (A&G, pp. 377-390)
  •  Read (in English): Lucian, "Lucius, or the Ass"
  • Optional: read Apuleius 1.1.1-1.2.1 (At ego… petebam, p. 3 of Finkelpearl's An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses. 

In class
  • Introduction to Apuleius
  • Discussion of Lucian's "Lucius, or the Ass"
  • Sight-reading: 1.1.1-1.2.1 (p. 3 of Finkelpearl's An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses


Wednesday, March 27

Homework:
  • Lege: Met. 2.1.1-2.2.1, 2.6 (Ut primum…temptetur)

In class:
  • Met. 2.1.1-2.2.1, 2.6 (Ut primum…temptetur)

​Friday, March 29

Homework:
  • Lege: Met. 2.7; 3.1.1 (Haec mecum…perstrepi, pp. 5-7)
  • Read in English: Apuleius, Metamorphoses Books 1-2, trans. E.J. Kenney
  • Note: no reading quiz tomorrow, but do reread all of the Apuleius we've read this week.

In class:
  • Discuss Books 1 & 2 of The Golden Ass, translated by E.J. Kenney
  • Met. 2.7; 3.1.1

WEEK 10

Monday, April 1

Homework:
  • Study week 10 vocabulary set
  • Take & submit PDF of Week 10 vocabulary quiz
  • Lege: Met. 3.2.1-3.2.5, 3.2.7-9, 3.8.1-4 (Nec mora…litate, pp. 7-8)

In class:
  • Met. 3.2.1-3.2.5, 3.2.7-9, 3.8.1-4 (pp. 7-8)

Wednesday, April 3

Homework:
  • Met. 3.9.5-3.11.6 (His dictis…suadeo, pp. 9-10) 

In class:
  • Met. 3.9.5-3.11.6 (His dictis…suadeo, pp. 9-10) 

Friday, April 5

Homework:
  • Lege Met. 3.21.1-3.22.5; 3.24 (Ad hunc…crescebat)
  • Review Met. 1.1.1-end of 3.11.6 (p. 3-10, last word suadeo) for reading quiz

In class: 
  • Reading quiz on Met. 1.1.1-end of 3.11.6 (p. 3-10)
  • Met. 3.21.1-3.22.5; 3.24

​WEEK 11

Monday, April 8

Wednesday, April 10

​Friday, April 12

​WEEK 12

Monday, April 15

Wednesday, April 17

​Friday, April 19

WEEK 13

Monday, April 22

Wednesday, April 24

​Friday, April 26

Week 14

Monday, April 29

Wednesday, May 1

​Friday, May 3