Classics degree (Q800) - Syllabus

Q800 ASSESSED ESSAYS - Essay 2 - see essay webpage

Prescription for Classics students: Latin Texts 2011/12

  • Horace, Odes book 3 (OCT Wickham-Garrod) - text online: it is important to work from this version
  • Res Gestae divi Augusti (CUP Cooley) - text online: it is important to work from this version
  • Suetonius Life of Augustus 1-34 - Carter text online

It is ESSENTIAL that you read these texts BEFORE the start of each term.

In our classes, we will not be translating the texts line by line, but trouble-shooting particularly tricky passages, and commenting on things of stylistic and historical interest. Please come along to the classes having already read the texts, bringing notes on any passages you would like help in translating. Feel free to download texts from The Latin Library, but be aware that these may differ slightly from the set editions specified below:

Preparation schedule

  • Read during the summer vacation, before autumn term: Horace Odes book 3
  • Read over Christmas, before spring term: RGDA, Suetonius.

The following editions will help you in your preparation.

Horace, Odes book 3
  • Set text is Oxford Classical Text, ed. Wickham-Garrod
  • Nisbet, R. and Rudd, N. A Commentary on Horace Odes III (OUP) £39
  • West, D. Horace Odes III, Dulce periculum - text, translation & commentary (OUP 2002) £30
  • Williams, G. The Third Book of Horace's Odes (OUP)
Suetonius Life of Augustus 1-34
Res Gestae divi Augusti
  • Set text is A.E. Cooley Res Gestae divi Augusti (2009, CUP) historical commentary
  • R.E. Wallace (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000) contains helpful notes on grammar + vocab.
  • C. Damon (Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries 1995) helps with grammar, but has no vocab

Schedule of classes:

READING CLASSES - Mondays 9-10 in H4.02

In our classes, we will not be translating the texts line by line, but trouble-shooting particularly tricky passages, and commenting on things of stylistic and historical interest. Please come along to the classes having already read the texts, bringing notes on any passages you would like help in translating.

Autumn Term - Horace, Odes Book 3

  • Week 2 Odes 3.7-11
  • Week 3 Odes 3.12-16
  • Week 4 Odes 3.17-22
  • Week 5 Odes 3.23-26
  • Week 7 Odes 3.27-30
  • Week 8 Odes 3.1-2
  • Week 9 Odes 3.3-4
  • Week 10 Odes 3.5-6

Spring Term - RGDA + Suetonius 1-34

  • Week 1 RGDA heading, chs 1-10
  • Week 2 RGDA chs 11-23
  • Week 3 RGDA chs 24-35, Appendix
  • Week 4 Suetonius Aug. 1-7
  • Week 5 Suetonius Aug. 8-13
  • Week 7 Suetonius Aug. 14-18
  • Week 8 Suetonius Aug. 19-25
  • Week 9 Suetonius Aug. 26-29
  • Week 10 Suetonius Aug. 30-34