(4) Your final grade will be determined asfollows: Exams I, II, III = 20% each (= 60% total) class work = 40%. (3 ) ClassWork encompassesdaily performance in class discussion and translation, presentations, andquizzes. (Reports inexcess of one per student will be assigned extra credit.) Oral reports will be considered part ofyour class work grade. Each student will be assigned at least one such report. These willgenerally consist of 10-minute presentations on various articles concerningPlautus or aspects of Roman comedy. (2) Oralreports will be assigned to each student in the course of the semester. In addition to these, there may be occasional unannouncedshort quizzes on translation and grammar in class the grades on all thesequizzes will make up part of your class work grade (see below). Policies and other matters concerning theseexams will be discussed in detail during class. Averaged together,these will form your exam grade in the course therefore there will notbe a final exam during exam week. (1) Exams : There will be three50-minute examinations on three Thursdays: Feb. The Dean of Students office will provide documentation to thestudent who must then present this documentation to the instructor whenrequesting accommodation.” Students with Disabilities: If you require accommodations because ofa disability, please make an appointment during my office hours so that we may discuss your needs in accordance withthe UF official policy: “ Studentsrequesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean ofStudents office. Other materials may be placed on a special shelfthere for your use. Available on the Web are:Īvailable in the Classics Library, 125 Dauer, are:full, unabridged Latin dictionaries (Oxford, Lewis & Short), a referencegrammar, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Duckworth Paperback, 2nd ed., ISBN: 0806126205 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press 1994Īdditional materials for this course can be accessedthrough the course web folder and will be announced in class as they are added: Ī good Latin dictionary and a grammar will behelpful. The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment, George E.Watling (transl.) Penguin Paperback, ISBN 0140441492 Quinn (eds.) Paperback, ISBN: 0865160074 Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 1999 Plautus’ Menaechmi Gilbert Lawall & Betty N.Quinn (eds.) Paperback, ISBN: 0582367530 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group 1988 The Aulularia of Plautus: the Pot of Gold, Gilbert Lawall & Betty N.He wasthe recipient of a State University System Teaching award several years ago. His special field of scholarship is Roman literature, oratory, andrhetoric (about which he has written three books and some 20 articles), but hepursues wide ranging interests in the history and archaeology of Greek andRoman civilization through reading, travel, and the courses he teaches. fromPrinceton and the Ph.D.in classics from the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill. Officehours to be announced, or by appointment.
The course will also focus on performance aspects of the plays, aswell as delving into such areas as the staging of comedy, characterdevelopment, the language of comedy, and how comedy reflects Roman society.Students will also see taped performances and adaptations of Roman comedies asbackground. The texts for both plays will have facing vocabulary and notes so thatstudents can concentrate on understanding and enjoying the plays, rather thanconstantly referring to a dictionary, or notes and vocabulary at the back ofthe book.
What We’ll Be Doing in this Version : Students will read in Latin twoplays of the most popular and funniest Roman comic writer, Plautus: the Potof Gold ( Aulularia ) and the Twin Menaechmi (the basis for Shakespeare’s“The Comedy of Errors”). Maybe repeated with a change of content up to a maximum of 6 credits. Translation andanalysis of the comedies of Plautus and Terence or the tragedies of Seneca. The Course: The officialdescription is as follows: If you are unsure whether you can or should take this course, pleaseconsult the instructor. May be repeated with a change of content up to a maximum of 6credits. Prerequisitesfor this Course: A 2000 level Latin course, advanced placement or equivalent highschool study. (Readingsin the Aulularia and Menaechmi ofPlautus) LNW 3310: ROMAN DRAMA: COMEDIES OF PLAUTUS