Distance
Summer Institute 2008
Instructor: Dr.
Jennifer A. Rea
Dates:
July 7-17, 2008
Topic:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Location:
RNK 220 & 225
Daily
Schedule
Advisory
Sessions for Distance Students: 8.30
-9.45
Dr. Rea (PhD Students) or Dr. Yates (ML or
MA Students)
Mornings can also be used for graduate
qualifying examinations and library
visits.
Session
1: 10.00 - 11.15
Lunch Break (1 hour)
Session
2: 12.15 - 1.30
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
Session
3. 1.45 - 3.00
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
Session
4. 3.15 - 4.30
Library
Session
TBA
All
participants must attend.
Required Texts:
William
S.
Anderson, Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 1-5. University of
Oklahoma Press, 1998. ISBN
0-8061-2894-1.
William
S.
Anderson, Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 6-10. University
of Oklahoma Press, 1978. ISBN
0-8061-1456-8.
Recommended
Texts (you should bring with you a Latin grammar and dictionary):
Gildersleeve, B.L. et. al., Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997
A good Latin dictionary (e.g., Chambers
Murray)
Readings
to be placed on reserve (in Library West)
B.W.
Boyd
(ed.), Brill's Companion to Ovid
(Leiden 2002)
P.
Hardie (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
(Cambridge 2002)
A.
Barchiesi,
"Endgames: Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 and Fasti 6," 181-208 in Classical
closure : reading the end in
Greek and Latin literature, edd. D. H.
Roberts, F.
M. Dunn, and D. P. Fowler (Princeton, 1997).
Course Goals:
The
purpose of this course is to provide a close reading of selections from
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
and a study of Ovid’s
treatment of
issues pertaining to Augustan Rome.
We will read Books 1 and 15 from the Metamorphoses, and additionally the graduate students
will look
at selections from Books 3, 4, and 7. Graduate students will also be
assigned
select readings from secondary scholarship and will be expected to
participate
in discussion of the ways in which modern scholars have addressed key
issues in
Ovid’s texts.
Graduate
Students:
If
you are a graduate student enrolled in this course, it is expected that
you will give a presentation to the class on some aspect of
Ovid's work during the course of the seminar. Students with
an interest in topography or other aspects of Roman material culture,
for example, may chose to present on a topic related to Ovid and the
Augustan city. If you are writing a paper and taking an
additional three credits for this, it is expected that your
presentation will be on your paper.
Grading:
For undergraduates: 30% daily
participation, 35% midterm and 35% final grade
For graduates: 20% daily participation, 30% reports, 25% midterm and
25% final
Topics and Text:
Week
1: Transformations and Transitions in Book One
Readings:
Primary
Texts: Metamorphoses Book 1 + 4.604-5.249 (Perseus)
Secondary
Readings: Cambridge: "Ovid and Early Imperial Literature" and
"Ovid and Empire"
Brill: "Ovid and the
Augustan Milieu"
Powerpoints:
Week
2: Ovid and Augustan Rome in Book Two
Primary
Texts: Metamorphoses Book 15 + 3.1-137 (Cadmus) + 7.615-660
(Myrmidones)
Secondary
Readings:
Cambridge:
"Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses"
Brill: "The House of Fame: Roman History and Augustan Politics in Metamorphoses 11-15" and "Narrative Techniques and Narrative Structures in the Metamorphoses"
A.
Barchiesi,
"Endgames: Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 and Fasti 6," 181-208 in Classical
closure : reading the end in
Greek and Latin literature, edd. D. H.
Roberts, F.
M. Dunn, and D. P. Fowler (Princeton, 1997).