Syllabus

LAT 1120H: Honors Latin I

Dr. White

Office: HC 146, x-6-8651

Office Hours T W R 2-4 PM

LAT 1120H and 1121H: Honors Latin I and II

Course Description: 4 Credit Hours

Honors Latin I and II are designed to offer students a thorough introduction to the Latin language, with emphasis on reading and translation. The sequence contributes to the Honors College program in foreign languages, allowing you to meet your undergraduate requirement in a classical language. It also contributes to the College’s emphasis on intellectual history. As students in this sequence, you will learn Latin vocabulary, grammar and syntax in parallel with English language forms. You will study word derivations and parallels between Latin and other Romance languages. Through a weekly set of exercises, readings, problems in translation, quizzes, and tests, you will develop a reading knowledge of Latin that will prepare you to read classical authors. In addition to an intensive course in the Latin language, this sequence also provides readings in selected Roman authors in translation. In Latin I you will read two writers of the Roman Republic: Lucretius and Cicero, highlighting Roman literature and philosophy. In Latin II, you will read Virgil in English as well and cover a range of genres in the authors of the Roman Empire. You will also be asked to utilize online sources in classics, for example the Perseus Project, containing a compendium of Latin and Greek texts with translations, as well as a variety of sources in classical studies.

Assignments and Grades:

In keeping with the course design outlined above, you will take a series of tests and quizzes, as well as complete a sequence of homework and classwork assignments, in the Latin language. In addition, tests will include brief essays on the Roman authors studied. Furthermore, you will write a final paper on key theme in the readings. These assignments will contribute to the final grade as follows:

1) Series of Quizzes: 30% of final grade;

2) Homework and Classwork: 10% of final grade;

3) Tests: two, including the final exam: each worth 20% of the final grade = 40%;

4) Paper on Roman culture: 20% of final grade.

Honors Latin Study Group: In an effort to enhance progress in reading and translating Latin, you are invited to form a Latin Study and Reading group. As you develop their reading skills in the language, you will increasingly be introduced to challenging readings in the Latin authors and encouraged to discuss the intellectual issues raised by their readings. In time this group will form the basis advanced Honors Seminars in classical languages and culture.

Students enrolled in this course agree to abide by the Honors College Honor Code. Please review this important document: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/students/honorcode.html.

LAT 1120: Honors Latin I: Required Texts

D’Ambra, Eve, Roman Women

LaFleur, R.A. Ed., Wheelock's Latin 6th Edition Revised

Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe (De Rerum Natura)

Online Sources:

English Grammar

Internet Grammar of English

Wheelock's Latin: resources

Days of the Week and Calendar

Magister White's Declensions

Latin Number Quiz

Cicero, Somnium Scipionis

---. Scipio's Dream

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura

---. On the Nature of Things

---. Lucretius at the Bibliotheca Augustana (in Latin)

Here are the opening lines of Lucretius’ On the Nature of the Universe, in Latin. Gradually, over the next two semesters, you will become able to read the passage, to learn its vocabulary and understand its syntax, as well as to comment on its literary and philosophical dimensions.

Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas,
alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa
quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis
concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum
concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis: 5
te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli
adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus
summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti
placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, lines 1-9.

Week Activities

1 Aug. 28-30

Introduction to Latin language and Roman culture, the place of Latin within Indo-European languages, comparisons and contrasts with Sanskrit, Greek, Anglo Saxon, etc.; English etymologies and Latin terms, derivation of words from Latin roots, a brief survey of Latin literature. Alphabet and Pronunciation. Verbs: First and Second Conjugations: Present Infinitive, Indicative, and Imperative Active: learn verb forms and practice translation: laudāre, to praise, and monēre, to advise. Wheelock, Introduction, Ch. 1.

2 Sept. 4-6

Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe, Book I. Wheelock, Ch. 2, Latin Nouns and Cases: First Declension; agreement of adjectives; syntax, infliction of nouns and adjectives, parallels in English; forms of First Declension nouns and adjectives porta magna; the meaning of syntax; study of syntactic forms in Latin and English. Quiz on vocabulary, reading; translation of Sententiae Antiquae, reading from Catullus;

3 Sept. 11-13

Second Declension, Masculine Nouns and Adjectives; >apposition, word order: Wheelock Ch. 3, amicus magnus, puer magnus, ager magnus, learn vocabulary and do exercises. Drill with second declension masculine nouns amicus magnus and puer magnus. Study of apposition and word order; vocabulary and exercises. Wheelock, Ch. 4, Second Declension Neuters; adjectives. Present indicative of the verb sum, I am, esse, to be. Vocabulary, exercises. Roman Women, “Gender and Status,” pp. 1-44. Quiz on vocabulary, grammar and translation.

4 Sept. 18-20

Lucretius, Book II. Wheelock, Ch. 5: the future and imperfect tenses of the first and second conjugations, laudabo, laudabam, monebo, monebam. Quiz, vocabulary, grammar, translation. New vocabulary, exercises, translation. Wheelock, Ch. 6. Future and Imperfect Indicative of sum. Present, future, imperfect tenses of possum, I am able, posse, to be able.

5 Sept. 25-27

Wheelock, Ch. 7, Third Declension Nouns, rex, Aking, virtus, virtutis, Amerit, homo,hominis, human being, corpus, corporis, a body. Rules for identifying gender in nouns: magnus rex, magni regis; vera pax, verae pacis. Vocabulary, exercises, reading and translation. Quiz, vocabulary, grammar, translation. Comparisons of word forms in Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and English. Wheelock, Ch. 8: Third Conjugation, duco, ducere, present infinitive, present, future, and imperfect indicative; the imperative; Roman Women, “Marriage and the Family,” 45-92.

6 Oct. 2-4
Lucretius, Book III. Wheelock, Ch. 8, continued. Ch. 9: Demonstratives: pronouns and adjectives: ille, illa, illud: that; hic, haec hoc, this, and iste, ista, istud, that (near you or of yours=). Special adjectives with -ius endings: solus, sola, solum, solius, solius, solius; alius, alia, aliud, alterius, alterius, alterius. Vocabulary and exercises, reading and translation.

7 Oct. 9-11

Review of first, second and third declensions and conjugations.
TEST I.

8 Oct. 16-18

Lucretius, Book IV. Wheelock, Ch. 10: Fourth Conjugation and -io Verbs of the Third conjugation: audīre, to hear, capere, to take. Comparisons with third conjugation, ducere, to lead.

Vocabulary, exercises, reading, translation, grammar. Review of verb forms. Review of demonstratives. Wheelock, Ch. 11. Personal Pronouns, ego, tu, and is; Demonstratives, is and īdem; Roman Women, “Women’s Work,” pp. 93-140.

9 Oct. 23-25

Quiz, vocabulary, grammar, translation. Exercises, vocabulary, reading and translation. Wheelock, Ch. 12: The Perfect Active System of All Verbs. Learning the four principal parts of verbs in the four conjugations: laudo, laudāre, laudavi, laudatum; moneo, monēre, monui, monitum; duco, ducere, duxi, ductum; capio, capere, cepi, captum; audio, audī re, audivi, auditum; sum, esse, fui, futurum; possum, posse, potui, C . Exercises, vocabulary, reading and translation; distinguishing the meaning of the imperfect from that of the perfect tense.

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

10 Oct. 30-Nov. 1

Lucretius, Book V. Wheelock, Ch. 13: Reflexive Pronouns and Possessives. Parallel examples of reflexive and personal pronouns of the first, second and third persons. Reflexive possessives of the first and second persons; the special form of the third-person: suus, sua, suum. The Intensive Pronoun: ipse, ipsa, ipsum, ipsius, ipsius, ipsius. Vocabulary, exercises, reading and translation. Review of the four principal parts of verbs. Quiz on verb forms, vocabulary, grammar, translation.

11Nov. 6-8

Review of noun and verb forms, principal parts of verbs, pronouns. Wheelock, Ch. 14: I-Stem Nouns of the Third Declension; rex, regis, m king, civis, civis, m. citizen, nubes, nubis, f. cloud, urbs, urbis, f. city, mare, maris n. sea, vis, vis, f. , force, pl. , strength. Ablatives of Means, Accompaniment, and Manner: Litteras stilo scripsit, “he wrote the letter with a pencil”; Cum amicis venerunt, “They came with friends”; Cum celeritate venerunt, “They came with speed (speedily).” “Exercises, vocabulary, grammar, reading and translation. . 14; Comparisons of word forms in Latin, Italian, Spanish, French. Roman Women, “Public Life,” 141-180. Quiz, vocabulary, grammar, translation.

12 Nov. 13-15

Lucretius, Book 6. Wheelock, Ch. 15, Numerals, cardinals (from cardo, cardinis, m. hinge= and so the pivotal numbers, one, two, three . . .) and ordinals (from ordo, ordinis, m. rank, order; special declensions of cardinals: unus, una, unum; duo, duae, duo; tres, tria; mille, milia. Genitive of the whole or partitive genitive: pars urbis, part of the city, nemo amicorum meorum, no one of my friends; genitive and ablative with cardinal numbers decem milia virorum 10,000 men= but mille viri, 1,000 men.= Ablative of time when or within which: Eo tempore non poteram id facere, “At that time I could not do it”; Agricolae bonis annis valebant, “Farmers flourished in good years.” Quiz, vocabulary, grammar, translation.

13 Nov. 20- 22 Holiday

Wheelock, Ch. 16: Third Declension Adjectives, civis fortis, brave citizen; mare acre, fierce sea. or mare potens, powerful sea. Vocabulary, exercises, grammar, reading and translation. Quiz,

vocabulary, grammar, translation. Wheelock, Ch. 17: The Relative Pronoun: qui, quae, quod, who, which, that, usage and agreement of forms. Reading, translation, grammatical analysis. Look forward to Chapter 18: First and Second Conjugations, Passive Voice.

14 Nov. 27-29

Cicero, Scipio’s Dream, Online. Wheelock, Ch. 18: First and Second Conjugations: Passive Voice of the Present System: laudor, I am praised, moneor , I am warned; Imperfect Indicative Passive: laudabar,I was being praised; monebar, I was being warned; future indicative passive: laudabor, I shall be praised, monebor, I shall be warned. Present passive infinitive: laudari, to be praised; moniri, to be warned. Wheelock, Ch. 19: Perfect Passive System of All Verbs: laudatus sum, I was praised, have been praised; Future Perfect Passive: laudatus ero, I whall have been praised; Pluperfect Indicative Passive, laudatus eram, I had been praised. Review for Final Exam.

15 Dec. 4th: last day of regular class; paper due.

16 Final Exam Period: Dec. 7-13:
FINAL EXAM: 10:30-1:00 Dec. 13th in our classroom