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
Schedule
E-Learning
All secondary readings
are available through the University of Florida Libraries Automating
Reserves (Ares) page created
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the materials for LNW 6905.
Week 1: 27 August
Topic: Statius' Material: The Legends of Thebes
Reading in English:
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus
at Colonus, Antigone
Aeschylus, Seven
Against Thebes
NOTE: TRANSLATIONS OF THESE PLAYS ARE AVAILABLE ON PERSEUS
Week 2: 3 September, Labor Day Observed
Week 3: 10 September
Topic: The Thebaid
Reading in English:
Thebaid in its
entirety.
Week 4: 17 September
Topic: Beginning with Oedipus
Reading in Latin:
Thebaid 1.1-87
Reading in English:
Moreland, F. L. 1975. "The Role of Darkness in Statius: A Reading of
Thebaid 1," Classical Journal 70: 20-31. (Ares)
Week 5: 24 September
Topic: A Parade of Heroes
Reading in Latin:
Thebaid 4.549-end
Reading in English:
Williams, Gordon. 1986. "Statius and Vergil: Defensive
Imitation," in Bernard, John D., ed. Vergil
at 2000. AMS Press, New York. 207-24. (Ares)
Week 6: 1 October
Topic: Hypsipyle
Reading in Latin:
Thebaid 5
Reading in English:
Nugent, S. G. 1996. "Statius' Hypsipyle: Following in the
Footsteps of the Aeneid," Scholia 5: 46-71. (Ares)
Week 7: 8 October
Topic: Rewriting Nisus and Euryalus?
Reading in Latin:
Thebaid 6.550-645
Reading in English:
Review Thebaid 10
Markus, D. 1997. "Transferring Heroism: Nisus and
Euryalus in
Statius' Thebaid," Vergilius 43: 56-65. (Ares)
Pollmann, K. F. L. 2001. "Statius Thebaid and the Legacy of Vergil's Aeneid," Mnemosyne 54: 10-30. (Ares)
Week 8: 15 October
Topic: Between Vergil and Statius: Lucan
Reading in Latin:
Thebaid 8.688-766
Reading in English:
Malamud, M. 1995. "Happy Birthday, Dead Lucan:
(P)raising the Dead in Silvae
2.7," Ramus 24: 1-30. (Ares)
Lovatt, H. 1999. "Competing Endings: Re-Reading the End of
Statius' Thebaid through
Lucan," Ramus 28:
126-51. (Ares)
Week 9: 22 October
First Translation Examination
Week 10: 29 October
Topic: Ending
Readings in Latin:
Thebaid 12
Week 11: 5 November
Topic: Endings
Readings in English (all available on Ares):
Braund, S. M. 1996. "Ending Epic: Statius, Theseus and a Merciful Release," PCPhS 42: 1-23.
Dietrich, J. 1999. "Thebaid's Feminine Ending," Ramus 28: 40-53.
Pagán, V. 2000. "The Mourning After: Statius Thebaid
12," AJP
121: 423-52. (available on line)
Dominik, W. 2003. "Following in Whose Footsteps? The Epilogue
to Statius' Thebaid," in Basson and Dominik, eds. Literature, Art, History: Studies in
Classical Antiquity in Honour of W. J. Henderson.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 91-109.
Week 12: 12 November, Veteran's Day Observed
Week 13: 19 November
Second Translation Examination
Week 14: 26 November
First Draft Due
Week 15: 3 December
Second Draft Due
Finals Week: 10 December
Final Paper Due
