Victoria Emma Pagán
Associate Professor
115C Dauer Hall
352-392-2075 x 262
vepagan@ufl.edu
Mailing Address:
125 Dauer Hall
Department of Classics
University of Florida
Post Office Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435
FAX: 352-846-0297
Office hours Fall 2008
Mondays 2:00-4:00 pm
LNW 6335: CICERO IN 63
"...So I took a fancy to leave behind me also some speeches
which may be called consular. One was delivered in the House on
the first of January, another to the people on the agrarian law, the
third on Otho, the fourth for Rabirius, the fifth for the sons of the
proscribed, the sixth when I declined a province in a public assembly,
the seventh when I drove Catiline out, the eighth before the people the
day after Catiline fled, the ninth in an assembly on the day when the
Allobroges gave their information, the tenth in the house on the 5th of
December. There are two more short ones, mere scraps of the
agrarian law. I will see that you have my whole corpus; and,
since both my writing and my achievements interest you, you will see
from them what I have done, and what I have written. Or else you
should not have asked for them: I was not the one to obtrude them."
Taking these words of Cicero (Letters to Atticus 2.1.3) as our
syllabus, in this course we will read all of Cicero's extant consular
orations, with a view to periodic style, rhetorical form, and
historical content.
Mondays periods 9-11, 4:05-7:05 pm
Turlington 2353
Textbooks
1. M. Tulli Ciceronis, Orationes. OCT
Volume I (In
Catilinam, Pro Murena), edited by A. C. Clark. Oxford 1993.
ISBN13:
978-0-19-814605-6. $49.50.
2. M. Tulli Ciceronis, Orationes. OCT
Volume IV (De lege agraria
contra Rullum, Pro Rabirio perduellionis), edited by A. C. Clark.
Oxford 1993. ISBN13: 978-0-19-814608-7. $58.00.
3. Cicero:
Catilinarians,
edited by Andrew R. Dyck. Cambridge 2008. ISBN-13:
9780521540438. $34.99.
See also the helpful Cicero
website maintained by Andrew Riggsby.
Grades
33%= 10 quizzes on the Latin readings
33%= midterm examination
33%= 2 small papers (16.5% each)
Policies
1. Your perfect attendance is expected.
2. You are expected to read Latin from a clean text at all times. Should you require aids, they must be in your own hand writing, on a separate piece of paper. I reserve the right to inspect for clean texts, and dismiss a student who has a marked text.
3. There will be no make up work except in
extraordinary and documented cases.
4. Students requesting classroom accommodation must first
register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office
will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this
documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.
5. The use of cellular devices during class is
strictly prohibited. Refusal to comply results in immediate
dismissal from class.
6. Academic Honesty is expected at all times. We, the members of
the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our
peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity . On all work
submitted for credit by students at the university, the following
pledge is either required or implied: "On my honor, I have neither
given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment."
7. Students who face difficulties completing the course or who
are in need of counseling or urgent help may call the on-campus
counseling center: 352-392-1575, or the student mental health center:
352-392-1171.
SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS
The prescribed readings should be complete by the beginning
of each class meeting; we will read selections of the speeches in
class, as the subject dictates.
Week 1: 25 August
De lege agraria 1
Week 2: 1 September
Labor Day
Week 3: 8 September
De lege agraria 2.1-25
quiz 1
Week 4: 15 September
De lege agraria 2.26-55.1
quiz 2
mini reports: Gruen (Lohmar); Party Politics (Boutin); Roman Voting Assemblies (Chapters 1-6: Fields, Daly, Hoot, Daniels, Bunge, Knight)
Week 5: 22 September
De lege agraria 2.55-75
quiz 3
Week 6: 29 September
De lege agraria 2.76-103
quiz 4
Week 7: 6 October
De lege agraria 3
quiz 5
Week 8: 13 October
Pro Rabirio
quiz 6
Week 9: 20 October
In Catilinam 1
MIDTERM
Week 10: 27 October
In Catilinam 2
quiz 7
Week 11: 3 November
Pro Murena 1-36
quiz 8
Week 12: 10 November
1st small paper due
compare
Sallust and Cicero OR the role of Pompey in the de leg. ag.
Week 13: 17 November
Pro Murena 37-56
Latin quiz 9
Week 14: 24 November
Pro Murena 56-90
Latin quiz 10
Week 15: 1 December
In Catilinam 3
course evaluations
Week 16: 8 December
In Catilinam 4
2nd small paper due
rhetorical analysis
of one of the speeches
