Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 - 12:30, Olin 109
Dr. Anne Mahoney
Office: Eaton 331, 627-4643, office hours after class. Renovations in Eaton Hall may displace me from my office, but I will always have a place to meet with students. I can also be reached by email: anne.mahoney@tufts.edu

Resources
Goals
Workload
Schedule
Policies
Assignments by class
Bibliography
Additional on-line resources

Required readings:
Catullus, in a complete and scholarly edition, for example Quinn's or Thomson's.
Latin: How to Read It Fluently, Dexter Hoyos ($10)
Other readings will be distributed in class.

Goals for the semester:
After a brisk review of the entire Catullan corpus, we will consider authors writing in Latin who accepted (or rejected) the influence of Catullus. While Virgil and Martial are perhaps the most obvious of these, Michael Putnam has recently argued that Horace is also significantly influenced by Catullus. We will consider not only classical poets but also modern ones, starting from the Renaissance re-discovery of Catullus. Along the way we will discuss reception as a way of reading not only the later poets but also Catullus himself.

Workload, grading, and schedule:
You will have reading assignments for each class. You will write four short papers on assigned topics, roughly 500-700 words. There will be no final exam.

Grades will be computed as follows:

Written assignments are due in class on 10, 17, 24, and 31 July. All of these dates are Thursdays. Late papers will not be accepted. If you will not be in class on the day when an assignment is due, email it to me, in plain text format, to arrive by the end of class. Do not send your papers as word-processor documents, HTML, or other formatted files. The simplest way to send plain text is to paste the text into the body of an email.

General policies:
Complete the reading assigned for each class before that day's class. Do not write out translations, but work on reading the Latin on its own. Bring the text to class along with your notes on the reading.

Attendance in class is required. Thoughtful discussion is part of the work of this class, and written assignments will build on class work. Remember, moreover, that each session in the summer term is equivalent to more than a week in the ordinary year.

I call your attention to University policy against plagiarism and other forms of cheating. Please refer to the Bulletin of Tufts University, p. 49 (or on line), for details.

I am happy to read drafts of papers as you work on them, or to answer questions about assignments. You may not re-write and re-submit assigned papers; the final copy is due on the scheduled due date, and will be graded.

Please note that except in the most extraordinary circumstances, I will not give "incomplete" grades.

No extra credit work is permitted, and grades in this course are not "curved."

Topics and reading assignments by class:
1. Tuesday 1 July. Introduction; policies and procedures. Catullus's poetry. Ancient references.
2. Thursday 3 July. Catullus and his friends.
3. Tuesday 8 July. Catullus and the Augustans.
4. Thursday 10 July. First paper due Catullus and elegy.
5. Tuesday 15 July. Catullus in Silver Latin.
6. Thursday 17 July. Second paper due Late antiquity and the middle ages.
7. Tuesday 22 July. Catullus re-emerges: fifteenth century readings.
8. Thursday 24 July. Third paper due More Renaissance readers.
9. Tuesday 29 July. Sixteenth century.
10. Thursday 31 July. Fourth paper due Seventeenth century.
11. Tuesday 5 August. From the eighteenth century to the present.
12. Thursday 7 August. Re-reading Catullus.

Selected bibliography:
The following books are on reserve in Tisch:
Julia H. Gaisser. Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. PA6276.G35 1993
Karl P. Harrington. Catullus and His Influence. PA6276.H3
Giovanni Pascoli. Saturae, ed. Alfonso Traina. PQ4835.A3 S38 1977
Michael C. J. Putnam. Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace. PA6411.P84 2006
Marilyn B. Skinner. Catullus' Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems. PA6276.S58 1981B
D. F. S. Thomson. Catullus, text and commentary. PA6276.T49 1997
T. P. Wiseman. Catullus and His World. PA6276.W544 1985

The following are not on reserve; because this is an advanced course, the bibliography is not limited to materials in our collection.
Stephen Hinds. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry. Cambridge: 1998.
Josef Ijsewijn. Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Louvain: 1990.
Charles Martindale and Richard Thomas, ed. Classics and the Uses of Reception. Malden: 2006.
David Wray. Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood. Cambridge: 2001.

On-line resources:
Perseus digital library
Neo-Latin Bibliography maintained by Prof. Dana F. Sutton of UC Irvine
The Latin Library, large collection of Latin texts of all periods (not necessarily well edited but useful)