Assignment for Wednesday, 04-27-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 27, please read and translate the following:

• Martial, poems 29, 31, 35, 37, 38, 42, and 45.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-25-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, April 25, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Martial, poems 23, 24, 25, and 26.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 8. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-18-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, April 18, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Martial, poems 7, 11, 12, and 14.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 7. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 04-04-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, March 4, please do the following:

(1) Navigate over to our Quizzes page, and review or read the following sections:

• Introduction;
• Format; and
• Guidelines for Quiz 2 (due April 15).

 We'll spend some time addressing any questions you might have.

(2) Read and translate the following:

• Juvenal, Satires 3.171–214.

As before, consult a translation in order to fill in the gap between this assignment and the previous.

(3) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 6. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 03-28-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, March 28, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Juvenal, Satire 3.1–40.

The poem will be too long to read in its entirety, but we'll get through a good third of it when all is said and done.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 5. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

(2a) If you want some additional perspective on the bucolic diaeresis, beyond what we've discussed in class, consult the following section of the Hexametrica site:

• Scansion >>> Divisions.

DC

Scansion of Hor. S. 1.6.102

Dear Satirists,

The question was raised last class about line 102 of Hor. Sat. 1.6.  It's a hypermetric line, a line whose number of syllables exceeds what's required for six feet.

The scansion is as follows:

ēt cŏměs | āltěr, ŭ | tī nē | sōlūs | rūsvě pě | rēgrē<vě>

(If we were marking the scansion by hand, the syllable /gre/ in regre<ve> would be an anceps.)

You can see that the addition of the second -ve at the end creates an extra syllable at the end of the line. The addition of this syllable, indicated by the angle brackets, is necessary for parallel construction: "either to the country or abroad," -ve here functioning like -que does.

The solution for lines like these is often to see whether that extra syllable might elide into the first word if the next line. It does here, as is typical:

ēt cŏměs | āltěr, ŭ | tī nē | sōlūs | rūsvě pě | rēgrē<v(ě)>
ēxīrēm…

DC

Assignment for Monday, 02-29-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, February 29, please do the following:

(1) Navigate over to our Quizzes page, and read the following sections carefully:

• Introduction;
• Format; and
• Guidelines for Quiz 1 (due March 11).

 We'll spend some time Monday and Wednesday addressing any questions you might have.

(2) Read and translate the following:

• Horace, Satires 1.9.1–52.

Satire 9, "The Boor" (or "Bore") is arguably the best known Horatian satire. As we did with 1.6, we'll this poem in its entirety over the next two class periods.

(3) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 4. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

(3a) If you want some additional perspective on caesurae, beyond what we've discussed in class, consult the following section of the Hexametrica site:

• Scansion >>> Pauses.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 02-22-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, February 22, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Horace, Satires 1.6.45–88.

From Satire 5, we transition to Satire 6, the most personal and autobiographical of Horace's satires. Since we're plunging in medias res, you might find it helpful to read the beginning of the poem in English.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 3. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 02-15-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, February 15, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Horace, Satires 1.5.1–51.

From Satire 4, we transition to Satire 5, "The Journey to Brundisium," which we'll read in its entirety.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 2. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

(2a) If you want some additional perspective on elision, beyond what we've discussed in class, consult the following section of the Hexametrica site:

• Scansion >>> Elision.

DC

Assignment for Monday, 02-08-16

Dear Satirists,

For Monday, February 8, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Horace, Satires 1.1.61–87; and
• Horace, Satires 1.4.1–25

We're going to move from Horace's views on greed in Satire 1 to his thoughts on genre and Lucilius in Satire 4. As usual, make use of Gowers' commentary, and remember your best practices.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 1. We'll spend a few minutes discussing any trouble spots, and then I'll collect your sheets.

(2a) If you want some additional perspective on scanning, beyond what we've discussed in class, consult the following short sections of the Hexametrica site:

• Preface;
• Rhythms >>> The Tradition, Fingers, Feet, Substitution; and
• Scansion >>> Nature, Position, Example, Syllabification.

DC