Jim O'Hara     T-Th 2:40-4 339 SC
office: 329 SC phone: 685-2066  e-mail: johara
Classical Studies office and my mailbox = 341 SC, 685-2070
Reserve shelf: 334 SC (open 24 hours)
Home phone (only if nec., and only 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.) (203) 407-0834
office hours: _________ and by appointment (don’t hesitate to ask!)
My other class: GRK 212, MW 9 or 9:30 to 10:20 or 10:50, 334 or 329
Tutorial hours in my office:
 

Roman Novel Links: websites on Petronius and Apuleius
 

Petronius Syllabus:                        Click here for more details on report topics

1. TH Jan. 27 Introductions

2. T Feb. 1: Read in Latin chapters 1-4  and the first 8 lines of the poem in 5
Read in English chapters 12-26 of Satyricon; (read translation Intro. in first couple of weeks)
Read in English the OCD article (1 p. handout) and the Petronius half of Harrison’s Intro to Oxford Readings in The Roman Novel (the book and three photocopies of the Intro will be on reserve in 334)
Those who want to make own copy can use machines in Science Library

3. TH Feb. 3  Read in Latin chapters 6-11 (total for week = about 6 pp.)
Read Slater 1-49 (the book and three photocopies will be on reserve in 334)

4. T Feb. 8 Start of Cena Trimalchionis or "Trimalchio's Dinner:" Read in Latin (w/ vocab. handout): 26.7-33.4  (4.5 pp).
Vocab help for Cena to be distributed on 2/3

5. TH Feb. 10: Read in Latin 37-39.5  (2 pp)
Read skipped chapters in English
Read Slater 50-86 (book and three Xeroxes of these pages on reserve in 334)

6. T Feb. 15: Read in Latin: 39-43    get additional vocab handout?
Little report: Auerbach, Mimesis pp. 24-49 "Fortunata":   __________________

7. TH Feb. 17: Read in Latin 44-46
Read Arrowsmith article
Little report:   Bacon, “Sibyl in the Bottle”: ___________________

By the end of February: read the plot summaries of 5 novels (4 Greek, one Roman; handout) and the full text in English (in Reardon in 344SC) of Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe (just over 100 pp.) and The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre (34 pp.).  Optional: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon.  Or just read them all!  You may read these less attentively than you do your main Petronius readings

8. T Feb. 22: Read in Latin: 57, 59.1-5, 71-72
Read whole Cena in English
Little report: History of text :________________________

9. TH Feb. 24: Read in Latin 74.8-78 ((a little long for TH))
Read Bodel, “Trimalchio’s Underworld,” 6-page Homer summaries (esp. Odyssey)
Little report:  D'Arms, “Trimalchio”:_______________________

10.T Feb. 29: Read in Latin: 79.9-83.9, 85-87 (5.5) (quarrel, love, painting, pony)
Read Conte, chapter one (1-36), “The Mythomaniac Narrator and the Hidden Author”
Finish othert novels and summaries mentioned in above note
Little report:  Slater, "Petronius and Art Criticism”: ___________

11.TH Mar. 2: Read in Latin: 110.6-113.5 (3) (widow of Ephesus); Finish Satyricon in English
Little report: Konstan, Sexual Symmetry:________________________

12.T Mar. 7: Read in Latin 116-119 (but only up to line 8 of the poem in 119), 126-128.5 (skip/skim poetry)
Little report: “A Greek Satyricon”  _______________________

13.TH Mar.9: Read in Latin 129.3-131 (skip poetry), 140.12-13;
Little report:  Beck and also Jones on narrator:________________

NO class TUES MARCH 28.  Self-timed closed-book take-home exam on Petronius: (translation and essay), and optional short paper due TH MARCH 30.  After P: five or six weeks on Apuleius, reading the cental Cupid & Psyche story in Latin; we will also read in English the whole of The Golden Ass, and also Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and Ps.-Lucian's The Ass.  Optional 2-5 page paper on topic of your choosing in Petronius can be handed in TH MARCH 30. Mandatory 6-10 page paper at end of term; can be either Petronius or Apuleius.