LAT
1120H and 1121H: Honors Latin I and II
Daniel
White
Email: dwhite@fau.edu;
please see my web page for office hours: http://wise.fau.edu/~dwhite.
Course Description:
4 Credit Hours
Honors
Latin I and II are designed to provide 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
language requirement in a classical language in the context of Roman cultural
and intellectual history. It is also designed to emphasize key terminology and
concepts in the history of philosophy and the sciences. As students in this
sequence, you will learn Latin vocabulary, grammar and syntax in parallel with
English language forms. You will also 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 study classical authors in
their original language. 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 writers of the Roman Republic: Livy,
Cicero or Lucretius, introducing Roman history, literature and philosophy. In Latin II, you will read Virgil, Tacitus,
Juvenal or Aurelius, covering a similar range of genres in the authors of the
Roman Empire. Secondary texts in Roman history, society, and culture will also
be assigned. You will further 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 their readings. These assignments will contribute to the final
grade as follows:
1) Series of Quizzes: 40% of final
grade;
2) Homework and Classwork, including
daily homework, presentation, and
attendance: 10% of final grade;
3) Tests: two, including the final
exam: each worth 20% of the final grade; 40% total;
4)
Paper on Roman authors: 10% 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
LAT 1121: Syllabus
Required
Texts:
Fitzgerald, William, Slavery
and the Roman Literary Imagination
LaFleur, Ed. , Wheelock's
Latin, 6th edition
Virgil, Aeneid (Robert Fagels, trans.)
Electronic
Sources:
Allen
and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
The
Classics Page (rich in sources)
Week
of Activities
1 1/8-10 Review
of Forms from Latin 1120. Wheelock, Chs.
19 & 20 review: Fourth Declension, fructus,
fructus, m. >fruit,= cornu,
cornus, n., >horn.= Ablatives of Place From Which: Graeci ~ patri~ su~
ad Italiam navigaverunt; Flumen de
montibus in mare fluxit; Ablative of separation:
2
1/15-17 Virgil, Book 1; Wheelock,
ch. 22: the fifth declension; Fifth Declension, res, rei, f. >thing,= dies diei, m. >day; Ablative of
Place where: In magnā
casā vivunt; Navis sub aquā fuit.
Summary of ablative forms: the ablative with prepositions: cum, in, sub, ab,dē, ex. Vocabulary, exercises, reading, translation,
grammar. Fitzgerald, intro., “Living with Slaves.”; begin Wheelock, Ch. 23.
3 1/22-24 Virgil, Book 2; Wheelock, Ch. 23: Participles: : Participles: active: present agens, agaentis, >doing,=; future, acturus, -a,-um, >about to do,= >going to do=; passive:
perfect, actus, >a,=um, >done,= >having been done=; future, agendus,-a,-um, >to be done=; >deserving or fit
to be done=.
Declension of participles: agens,
agentis.
Begin Wheelock, Ch. 24: Ablative Absolute: His rebus auditis, coepit tim‘re.
Passive
Periphrastic Conjugation: Gerundive + Sum: haec femina laudanda est. Dative
of Agent with Passive Periphrastic: Hic
liber mihi cum cur~ legendus erit. Vocabulary,
exercises, reading, tranaslation, grammar, review.
Fitzgerald, Ch. 1. Quiz on Verb forms through the perfect active
system of all conjugations and noun declensions 1-4.
4 1/29-31 Virgil,
Book 3, Wheelock, Ch. 25:
Infinitives: Active present, agere,
perfect, egisse, future, acturus -a,-um esse; Passive present, agi, perfect, actus, -a,-um,esse; future, actum
iri. Infinitive in Indirect
Discourse with Accusative subject: Magister
dicit Iuliam esse discipulam bonam.
Infinitive tenses in Indirect Statment: Dicunt eum iuv~re eam, . . . eum iuvisse eam . . .eum iuturum esse
eam, etc. Vocabulary, grammar, reading, translation, exercises, review.
5 2/5-7 Fitzgerald,
ch. 1, “The Other Self”; Quiz, grammar, vocabulary, conjugation,
translation; Wheelock, Ch. 26:
Comparison of Adjectives: carus,-a,-um,
carior, -ius, carissimus,
-a,-um etc. Declension of
comparatives: fortior, fortioris etc. Ablative of Comparison: Consilia tu sunt clariora luce. Vocabulary,
exercises, grammar, reading,
translation, review.
6 2/12-14 Virgil, Books 4-5; Wheelock, Ch. 27:
Special and Irregular Comparison of Adjectives: faculis,-e, facilior, -ius, facillimus, -a,-um etc. Review of conjugations, declensions, grammar,
vocabulary; Wheelock, Ch. 28:
Subjunctive Mood: present subjunctive: laudem,
moneam, ducam, audiam, capiam, etc. Subjunctive clauses: jussive subjunctive: Discipulus discat aut discedat! Purpose Clauses: Hoc dicit ut eos iuvet.
Discedit n‘
id audiat.
Vocabulary, exercises, reading, translation, grammar.
7 2/19-21 Fitzgerald, ch.2, “Punishment”; Wheelock.
Ch. 29: Imperfect Subjunctive, active and passive: laud~rem, laudarer, mon‘rem, monerer, ducerem, ducerer,
audirem, audirer, caperem, caperer. Present and Imperfect Subjunctive of
Sum and Possum: sim, possim, essem,
possem etc. Result clauses: ut + the subjunctive:
8 2/26-28 Virgil, Book 6; Review of subjunctive
forms and uses; Wheelock, Ch. 30: (through p. 204), Perfect Subjunctive active: laudaverim, monuerim, duxerim, audiverim,
ceperim; perfect passive: laudatus
sim, minitus sim, ductus sim, auditus sim, captus sim; Pluperfect
Subjunctive active: laudavissem, monuissem, duxissem, audivissem, cepissem; passive, laudatus essem, monitus essem, ductus essem,
auditus essem, captus essem. The Subjunctive in Indirect Question: Quid Gaius Facit? Rogant quid Gaius faciat. Vocabulary, grammar, reading, translation.
Midterm: Test I,
Thursday, 2/28
9 3/4-6 Spring Break
10 3/11-13 Fitzgerald, ch. 3, ,”Slaves between the
Free”; Review of subjunctive forms: Quiz
on subjunctive forms and functions.
Wheelock, Ch. 30, (pp. 205 ff., Sequence of Tenses: PrimaryBMain verb in Present or Future,
Subordinate Subjunctive in Present = action at same time or after, in Perfect =
action before; HistoricalBMain verb in Past
Tenses, Subordinate Subjunctive in Imperfect = action at same time or after,
Pluperfect = action before. Vocabulary,
grammar, reading, review.
11 3/18-20 Virgil, Book 7-8; Quiz on Subjunctive forms
and functions. Review. Wheelock, Ch. 32: Formation and
Comparison of Adverbs: long‘, longissimus, longissim‘; liber, liberius, liberrim‘; pulchr‘, pulchrius, pulcherrim‘; Third Declension
adverbs with -iter endings: fortiter, fortius, fortissim‘, etc. Irregular Verg: Volo, velle, volui, >to
wish=:
volo, vis, vult, etc. Nolo, nolle, nolui (ne + volo), >not to wish,= >to be unwilling,= malo, malle, malui (magis + volo) >to want something
more or instead=. Nolo in Negative
Commands: Noli manere, Amice, Nolite
discedere, amici mei! Proviso
clauses: Subjunctive + dummodo >provided that= or >so long as=: Non
timebo, dummodo h§ c remaneas. Vocabulary,
grammar, reading, translation, review. Wheelock, Ch. 33: Conditions: Indicative Conditions: Simple fact
present, present indicative in both clauses: Si id facit, prudens est: >If
he is doing this, he is wise=;
Simple fact past: Si id fecit, prudens
fuit: >If
he did this, he was wise=;
Simple fact future: Si id faciet, prudens
erit: >If
he does (will do) this, he will be wise.
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3/25-27 Fitzgerald, ch. 4, “The Continuum”; Virgil, Book 9. Wheelock, Ch. 33: Subjunctive conditions: Contrary to fact, present: Si id faceret, prudens esset: >If he were doing
this, he would be wise=
(imperfect subjunctive in both clauses) ; Contrary to fact, past: Si id fecisset, prudens fuisset: >if he had done
this, he would be wise=
(pluperfect subjunctive in both clauses) ; Future less vivid or >should, would=: Si id faciat, prudens sit: >If he should do
this, he would be wise=
(present subjunctive in both clauses).
Vocabulary, grammar, reading, translation, review. Wheelock
Ch. 34: Deponent Verbs: verbs with passive forms but essentially active
meanings: hortor, hortari, hortatus sum, >I urge, to urge, I
have urged=;
fateor, fateri, fassus sum: >I
confess, to confess, I have confessed=;
sequor, sequi, secutus sum: > I follow, to
follow, I have followed=;
molior, moliri, molitus sum: >I work at, to work
at, I have worked at=;
patior, pati, passus sum: >I suffer, to
suffer, I have suffered=.
Learn all indicative and subjunctive forms of deponent verbs: vocabulary,
practice and review. Ablative with
special deponents: utor, uti, usus sum: >use= Utitur stilo >He=s using a pencil.= fruor >enjoy= fungor, >perform,= potior,
>possess,= vescor, >eat.= Vocabulary, grammar, reading,
translation, review.
13 4/1-3
Virgil, Books 9-10; Wheelock, Ch. 35: Dative with
Adjectives:
14 4/8-10 Fitzgerald, ch. 5, “Enslavement and
Metamorphosis”; Virgil, Book 11; Quiz, deponent verbs, verbs with
ablative, dative, jussive noun clauses. Wheelock, Ch. 37: Conjugation of EÇ, § re, i§, itum,
>to
go=. Constructions of Place: place where: in or sub + ablative; to which: in, ad, or sub + accusative; from which: ab, d‘, or ex + ablative. With names of cities, towns, small islands as
with the three nouns domus, domus (-i) f.
>home,= humus, humi
f. >ground=, >earth,= and rus, ruris n. >country,= >countryside,= no prepositions
are usually applied: locative for place where: locative = genitive ending
without preposition in nouns of first
and second declension singular; otherwise it generally = the ablative
ending. Visus est Romae, Athenis, et Carthagine; place to which: accusative without preposition: Ibit Romam, Athenas, et Carthaginem; place from which: ablative without
preposition: Iit Rom~, Athenis, et Carthagine. Irregular declension of domus: locative, domi >at
home, accusative domum >to
home=,
ablative domo >from home=. Locative of humus: humi >on the ground= ; locative or rus, ruri
or rure: >in the country.= Temporal constuctions: Review ablative of time when or within which (
15 4/15-17 Wheelock, 39: Gerund and Gerundive; Wheelock, Ch. 40: -Ne,Num, and Nōnne in Direct Questions; Fear
Clauses; Genitive and Ablative of Description; vocabulary, exercises, review; quiz Thursday in review for Final.
16 4/22
Virgil, Book 12; Fitzgerald,
Epilogue. Review Term Paper Due.
4/24 Reading Day
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4/25-5/1 Final Exam Week, Test II: Exam Thursday, May 1, 10:30 -
1:00 PM