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Fall 2023
Mondays
Ancient Roman History At a Glance
Thomas Hayes Dates: 9/11 - 11/20 Number of Sessions: 11
1st set of videos: https: The complete history of the Roman Empire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3IIRiSTc3g&t=7725s
Tuesdays
Advanced Latin
Thomas Hayes Dates: 9/5 - 11/14 Number of Sessions: 11
F.F Hercules 41-50 w. vocab.doc
Sept 19th-no class
The Clever Thief, part 1.doc The Clever Thief, part 2.doc The Clever Thief, part 3 chopped.doc
Thursdays
Continuing Latin
Thomas Hayes Dates: 9/7 - 11/16 Number of Sessions: 11
Summer 2023, June 5th through August 30th.
(Any changes in the schedule will be listed here.)
This summer there are two offerings on the burner. Both will be offered at 10:15, and will use the same zoom address.
Contact me for the zoom invitation--it can be shared with anyone.
On Mondays,we be looking at a series of
Latin proverbs
and translate them as well as take a peek into their structure.
You don’t have to know any Latin, but hopefully we’ll all learn some along the way.
June 5:
We discussed the method we'll be using is our discussion.
June 12:
Today we discussed the use (or assumption) of the
copula--we will review it next week. We perused the following list, and will continue with it next time.
June 19:
:
Today we will look at gerunds and passive periphrastics (the name is harder than the concept!) using these aphorisms:
On Wednesdays,
we be talking about the life of the ever popular leader, lover, high priest, conqueror, revolutionary, (not salad-making) autocrat:
Gaius Julius Caesar.
We’ll look especially at what ancient authors had to say,
with particular emphasis on those writers who actually knew of him first hand—including Caesar himself.
Most of the materials that we see in the sessions will be posted here.
June 7th--intro to the era of CJC and discussion of the political structure of the time. The following are helpful precis of
that. The politics section (taken from Wikipedia) should be clickable for more info.
Reading Plutarch will give you on overview of CJC's life-altho only one view. We will discuss some of it next time.
June 21st Zoom problems. I apologize!!!
Here are some short bios or discussions of Caesar from the ancient world. You could read them ahead of next time. I have also attached a speech that
Caesar gave in defense of Catiline. It gives some insight into Caesar's personality--or at least how Sallust perceived it.
CJC in Velleius Paterculus.doc CJC in Pliny the Elder.doc CJC's speech in Salliust.doc
July 19th CJC's Commentaries on the Civil War (which he started!?!)
http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/civil.1.1.html (you'll probably want to blow it up quite a bit)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0076
Interim Latin Lessons, November 30, 2022 -- February 1, 2023
Spring 2023 The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Fall 2022 The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Pliny the Elder's Natural History
Fall 2022
Summer 2022, Wednesday 10 a.m.
All meetings will take place at this zoom address.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84912375505?pwd=bWcxeTFqQVo0ZzA1eHozYjQxUkUzQT09
Latest additions:
English for all of Pliny's Naturalis Historiae: http://www.attalus.org/info/pliny_hn.html
Latin for all of Pliny's Naturalis Historiae: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/pliny_the_elder/home.html
August 10:
We will continue the discussion of art, esp. looking the painters mentioned--although we have very little of what we can call paintings left.
We will also look at the BEE section, a very extensive discussion, although wherther about bees or about Pliny's acquaintances is not clear.PtE Bees, Book 11.doc
p.s. Beth was on the money that the Laocoon is not mentioned in book 34. It is in book 36. I am sorry for the mix-up and thank her for her careful reading.
August 3rd: We will look at two of the art/mineral chapters: Here are some selections to look at
although I realize I've given almost all of Chapter 35
PtE Book 34 selected.doc ,(3-93)
PtE 35 selections.doc (almost whole book)
July 27: sea creatures(see readings suggested in last week's post)
July 20: We just finished the animals, and started to look at the table of contents of Book 9 for sea creatures
These are the readings on marine life that I like to concentrate on (but of course you are welcome to read the whole book):
1-4: amazing sea creatures
5-11 whales and dolphins
54-59-pearls
60-65-royal dyes from shell fish
83-88-remarkable foreign fish
July 13: NO session today--I'll be at a (virtual) Classics conference
You might look at Book 9 for the 20th, esp/
Secs 1-4 treat amazing sea creatures
5-11 whales and dolphins
54-59-pearls
60-65-royal dyes from shell fish
83-88-remarkable foreign fish
July 6: Book 8:
Below you will find Book 8, plus excerpts that highlight the big animals and some of the stories
surrounding them. We will be focussing on them--and if you find any individual story of
particular interest, please let us know why--and maybe think about reading it for us in the
sesssion?
June 29:Book 7
PtE Book 7 English.doc ; PtE Book 7 contents English.doc ;PtE Bk 7 contents Latin.doc
June 22: cancelled due to conflict with OLLI general meeting
June 15: We will look at the geography books, 3-6. If you would like to see for yourself Pliny's approach as well as what he deems worthy of note:
A. You could read some of the excerpts of book 5 and 6 here:PtE bk 5 excerpts.doc PtE NH 6. excerpts.doc.
They give you some idea of the breadth, and limitations, of Pliny's presentation.
B. You could pick one book (I'd suggest Book 3 as the most familiar) and read it through. Links to all the books are available above.
June 8
Pliny the Younger 's letter about his uncle's life and work.
Pliny Minor 3.L5.doc
Book 2--astronomy, esp. the sun, god, and the value of land acquisition
PtE 2.5.1.doc (god); PtE 2.4 the Sun.doc , PtE NH 2.79 expanding holdings.doc , PtE 2.5.2-Sors:Chance.docx
June 1: Background on Pliny the Elder (C. Plnius Secundus)
Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMVf8bkUQE&t=4s
Naturalis Historiae Dedication PtE Dedication to Titus.doc
Book 8 animals contents.doc
PtE Book 8, faithful dog, English.doc
Life of Pliny the Elder
(from Britannica)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pliny-the-Elder
(from the Livius page--includes explanations of each book)
https://www.livius.org/articles/person/pliny-the-elder/
Death of Pliny the Elder--from Pliny the Younger, his nephew
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/404b/web%20rdgs/pliny%20on%20vesuvius.htm
Contents of the books of the Naturalis Historiae
NATURALIS HISTORIAE
BOOK
I.DEDICATION; TABLE OF CONTENTS
II. THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS
III. COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
IV. (CONTINUATION)
V. (CONTINUATION)
VI. (CONTINUATION)
VII. MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS.
VIII. TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS.
IX. OF FISHES.
X. OF BIRDS.
XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.
XII. OF TREES
XIII. OF EXOTIC TREES, AND AN ACCOUNT OF UNGUENTS.
XIV. OF THE FRUIT TREES.
XV. (CONTINUATION)
XVI. OF THE FOREST TREES.
XVII. OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.
XVIII. OF GRAIN.
XIX. THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX; ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.
XX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS.
XXI. OF FLOWERS. AND THOSE USED FOR CHAPLETS MORE PARTICULARLY.
XXII. OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.
XXIII. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE CULTIVATED TREES.
XXIV. THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE FOREST TREES.
XXV. OF WILD PLANTS
XXVI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO DISEASES.
XXVII. A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES FROM THEM.
XXVIII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
XXIX. (CONTINUATION)
XXX. (CONTINUATION)
XXXI. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE AQUATIC PRODUCTION
XXXII. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS.
XXXIII. OF METALS.
XXXIV. (CONTINUATION)
XXXV. OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.
XXXVI. OF STONES.
XXXVII. OF PRECIOUS STONES.
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