Assignment for Wednesday, 04-20-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 20, we'll get high on Latin with the following:

(1) Read and translate Martial, poems 18 and 19.

(2) Read, in preparation for our fourth scholarship discussion, A. Barchiesi and A Cucciarelli (2005), "Satire and the Poet: The Body as Self-Referential Symbol" (distributed by email and in class). Take notes on and/or highlight ideas and statements that seem interesting or relevant in light of the work we've done to date.

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 04-06-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 6, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate Juvenal, Satire 3.286–322.

(2) Read, in preparation for our fourth scholarship discussion, E. Moodie (2014), "Umbricius' Farewell Tour" (distributed in class). Take notes on and/or highlight ideas and statements that seem interesting or relevant in light of the work we've done to date.

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 03-23-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, March 23, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate Juvenal, Satire 1.132–71.

(2) Read, in preparation for our third scholarship discussion, C. Connors (2005), "Epic Allusion in Roman Satire" (to distributed in class). Take notes on and/or highlight ideas and statements that seem interesting or relevant in light of the work we've done to date.

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 03-02-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, March 2, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate Horace, Satires 1.9.52–78.

(2) Read, in preparation for our second scholarship discussion, C. Martindale (2005), "The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English Letters" (distributed via email and with hardcopies available outside my door). Take notes on and/or highlight ideas and statements that seem interesting or relevant in light of the work we've done to date (and the work we will do for the semester project).

DC

Assignment for Wednesday, 02-10-16

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, February 10, please do the following:

(1) Read and translate the following:

• Horace, Satires 1.4.25–62.

(2) Read, in preparation for our first scholarship discussion, F. Muecke (2005), "Rome's First 'Satirists.'" Take notes on and/or highlight ideas and statements that seem interesting or relevant in light of the work we've done to date.

DC