http://www.wesleyan.edu/~johara/LAT202Ovid.html
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Latin 202, Spring semester 1999
TTh 1:10-2:30 p.m. SC 339 (or possibly 334)
Jim O'Hara (johara@wesleyan.edu)
(http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/jim.html)
office: 685-2066; home: 1-203-407-0834 (only if really nec., and only
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.!)
office hours: ??? and by appointment M-Th, 329 Science Center
Classical Studies office and my mailbox: 341 SC, 685-2070
Reserve shelf: 334 SC (which is
open 24 hours)
Course Description and Requirements
. SYLLABUS
. Classical Resources
Course
Description and Requirements
Syllabus
Read all Latin before class; secondary readings
TBA
1. Thurs. Jan 21 - Introduction,
in-class look at Ovid, Met. 1.1-4
2. Tues. Jan 26 - 1.5-44
(40 lines); Philosophical Creation I: Order from
Chaos
(use worksheet and answer keys for 1.5-150; be ready to answer all
Q's on worksheet)
3. Thurs. Jan 28 - 1.45-75
(31); Philosophical Creation II: Definite Boundaries
4. Tues. Feb 2 - 1.76-112
(46); Creation III: Humans; Golden Age
5. Thurs. Feb 4 - 1.113-50
(38); Decline: Ages of Silver, Bronze, Iron
6. Tues. Feb 9 - 1.151-98
(48); Giants; Lycaon I: Angry Jupiter Calls Gods
to Heaven's Palatine
7. Thurs. Feb 11 - 1.199-239
(41); Lycaon II: Jup. Tells of Fierce Crime and
Furry Punishment
Read Books 1-4 in English by now
8. Tues. Feb 16 - 1.240-92
(53); Flood I: More Punishment; Back to Chaos?
9. Thurs. Feb 18 - 293-323
(31); Flood II; Deucalion and Pyrrha I: Last Couple
10. Tues. Feb 23 - FIRST
EXAM, WITH SHORT PAPER DUE ON ASSIGNED TOPIC
11. Thurs. Feb 25 - 323-74
(52); Deucalion and Pyrrha II: "We two"
12. Tues. Mar 2 - 375-415
(41); Deucalion and Pyrrha III: Rocks and Re-creation
13. Thurs. Mar 4 - 452-503
(52, note skipped lines); Apollo & Daphne
I: He Loves Her, She Virginity
Spring Break: Catch up, get ahead,
read Books 5-12 in English, think about
next paper
14. Tues. Mar 23 - 504-87
(84); Apollo & Daphne II: Flight, Fright,
Prayer and Tree
15. Thurs. Mar 25 - 583-667
(81, note longer assigns. after break); Jupiter,
Juno & Io I: Cow Story
16. Tues. Mar 30 - 668-750
(83); Jupiter, Juno & Io II: Argus, "Hermes,"
Syrinx & Pan Story
17. Thurs. Apr 1 - SECOND
EXAM, WITH SHORT PAPER DUE ON ONE OF SEVERAL TOPICS
Rest of Class TBA; suggestions welcome; likely choices
below; finish poem in English
Tues. Apr 6/Thurs. Apr 8/ Tues. Apr 13/Thurs. Apr 15/ Tues. Apr 20/Thurs.
Apr 22/ Tues. Apr 27/Thurs. Ap 29/ Tues. May 4
1. 750-79, 2.1-62 Phaethon and the Chariot of the Sun
3.339(342)-510 Narcissus & Echo: Self-love and Selflessness
4.55-77; 4.78-168 Pyramus & Thisbe: Young Love & Bloody Berries
6.1-145 Arachne: God, Mortal & Art
8.620-737 Baucis & Philemon: House-guests, Piety & its Reward
10.185(105) Orpheus (+ Cyparissus 106-42): the Master-Singer
15.745-879 Julius Caesar, Augustus & Ovid
THIRD EXAM WITH PAPER WILL BE DURING
EXAM WEEK, MAY 10-14 (unless we change schedule)
Classical
Resources
Ovid . General Classical
Studies . Other Sites for Classics Resources in
General . Bibliography
Background on Other Epic Poetry . Greek
Background: Homer, Apollonius etc.
Ovid:
An outline
of the structure of the Metamorphoses
Resources
for the Study of Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8.614-724: Judith de Luce's
page (in progress) on Baucis and Philemon
Ovid:
Metamorphoses (great set of links on a page at Reed College)
Scansion
of Latin Poetry: Hexameter
Introduction to Latin Epic (Oxford): Ovid's
Metamorphoses
U
of T Classics: Synopsis of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Analytical
Onomasticon Project (A clickable "who's who" of The Metamorphoses,
produced by King's College London and Princeton University)
Ovid
Project (at U. Vermont. Plates from two illustrated editions of The
Metamorphoses, one dated 1640 and the other 1713)
Illustrations
for Ovid at the Davison Art Center! (for Wesleyan access only, I think)
Sean
Redmond -- Recent Ovidian Bibliography (easy-to-use and up-to-date
bib. on recent work)
Ulrich
Schmitzer's (German) Ovid home page (lots of great stuff, even if you
don't know German)
Perseus
Project Text of Ovid in English & Latin w/ Notes
Professor Roberts'
project on Apollo-Daphne (in progress--only partial url given here)
Timeline
of (some) historical and literary events of Ovid's lifetime
http://www.huygens.org/~hanssen/ovidius.html
= Some information on Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
http://ancienthistory.miningco.com/msub17.htm
includes some links on Latin grammar etc. and lower on the page some Ovid
links that might be worth checking out
http://www.lib.msu.edu/ioannide/oe/oe.htm
o e = Orpheus and Eurydice, which we may read later
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/gradstud/mayer/Tiresias.html
= Tiresias + Echo & Narcissus, which we'll read I think
http://daex.ufsc.br/~ssaguiar/ovid.htm
links to texts; from Spain vel sim.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/3988/morph.html
text of Kafka's story, Metamorphosis, just for fun
A slightly modified
version of the synopsis found in Henry T. Riley's prose translation
of the Metamorphoses (1851)
Diotima
bibliography for Ovid
Oxford
dissertation in progress on Ovid's Heroides
Ovid
im (German for "in/on") WWW the extensive Ovid page and links of scholar
Ulrich Schmitzer (lotsa links here)
Courses taught (at least partly) on Ovid here
at Wesleyan:
LAT
202 Ovid
LAT
242 Roman Elegy
LCCIV
203 Latin Literature in English Translation
CCIV 217 Approaches to Antiquity
CCIV325
Roman Epic
CCIV118
SP: ROME AND THE CAESARS
General
Classical Studies:
Wesleyan
Classical Studies Department Home Page
Related
Resources for Classical Studies (Wesleyan Page)
Perseus
Project Home Page (Great online material on Greek stuff: texts in G.
& E., pics of vases etc., historical and mythological background. Roman
stuff [next] just getting started.)
Roman
Perseus (Roman part of Perseus project is in early stages but has texts
and translations of major authors.)
Diotima:
Women & Gender in the Ancient World (lots of info: links, pics,
bibliog., some texts)
Diotima
Anthology of Translated Materials
Tech
Classics Archive (Eng trans)
The
Romulus Project: An Electronic Library of Latin Literature With Virtual
Commentary
Fiction.html
(about antiq.) (Nothing to do with this course, directly, but it's
fun to know about the many good historical novels and mysteries (esp. Davis
& Saylor) being written about the ancient world.)
CLASSICS
List (an internet discussion list; often annoying but sometimes useful
& fun)
Other
Sites for Classics Resources in General:
Tools
of the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature Lowell Edmunds and Shirley
Werner (scholarly stuff)
Bullfinch's
Mythology online. Searchable.
The
Allen & Greenough from your 201 course
Missouri
Classics (with resources)
Classics
Resources LWright
Classics
and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page
Mississippi
classics
Holy
Cross Topoi
Jim
O'Donnell's Classical, Medieval, etc links and indices
Kentucky:
Classics Elsewhere
Diogenes'Links
To The Ancient World
Pantelia-Resources
for Classicists
Classical
Resources (J. Ruebel)
Stanford
Links (good on depts.)
Bibliography
(see also Diotima and other sites):
Look
it up! THIS IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**** (great search tool for all
kinds of stuff in Classics, including the next two bibliographic tools)
TOCS-IN
Search (great search tool for recent articles in Classics)
Gnomon:
Titelsuche (Classics bibliographical tool; you don't really have to
know German; just type your terms in the Alle Felder [all fields] box and
click Suche Starten [start search]. Then it may help to know that Rez.
= "a review", S. = p. [page].)
Background
on Other Epic Poetry:
The
Classics Pages: Has something on the Aeneid, and it might be interesting
generally.
Introduction to Latin Epic (Oxford): Life
Histories of Roman Epic Poets
Epic
Web Pages (good stuff for a course on Latin epic at Oxford)
cl420.html
(good stuff at a Roman epic course at Middlebury C.)
Welcome
to Masterpieces of Roman Literature. (course at Middlebury C.)
CCIV325Epic.html
(another course I teach at Wesleyan)
Epicsyl.html
(Syllabus for a course on Greek & Roman Epic at Temple U.)
Greek
Background: Homer, Apollonius etc.:
Homer's
Iliad and Odyssey (defunct link??)
Introduction to Latin Epic (Oxford): The
Iliad, The
Odyssey, Greek
Epic Background, The
Argonautica
The
Iliad by Homer
The
Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes (complete text in E. with some
notes)
The
Argonautica: Introduction (some outdated: don't believe everything
you read about the alleged "quarrel" between A.R. and Callimachus)
A
Bibliography for Apollonius Rhodius