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Assignment for Wednesday, 04.29.20

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 29, please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Martial, Epigrams 26, 35, 80, and 18.

(2) Review carefully the compendium (sent via email) of your peers’ annotations on Freudenberg (2018). As before, ask yourselves these questions as you proceed.

  • What did you notice about the piece that your peers did not? And vice versa?
  • Would your peers’ annotations help them with a theoretical semester project on Roman satire? Why or why not?
  • What best practices for annotations might you extrapolate from the compendium?

Thanks again for agreeing to this special class session — one additional day has really made all the difference.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 04.27.20

Dear Satirists,

On Monday, April 27, our modified semester project concludes. Please do the following.

I’ll compile your annotations into one document, and circulate it before class on Wednesday, April 29, which is when we’ll discuss what you all had to say.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 04.24.20

Dear Satirists,

For Friday, April 24, please do the following.

  • Read and translate Martial, Epigrams 23, 25, 29, 31, 37, 38, 45, 51, 60, 70, and 71 (as numbered in the Watson & Watson commentary).

All Latin poetry deserves a content warning of some kind, but this round of poems especially so: primarily sexual content and body shaming, but no doubt you will encounter other themes that challenge our contemporary notions of correctness.

Remember that we read these epigrams in connection with the genre of satire, and not for the purpose of titillating ourselves with naughty verses (as was often the case in schoolboy receptions of Juvenal).

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 04.17.20

Dear Satirists,

For Friday, April 17, please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 3.286–322 — the very end of the poem.

(2) Review carefully the compendium (sent via email) of your peers’ annotations on Moodie (2014). As before, ask yourselves these questions as you proceed.

  • What did you notice about the piece that your peers did not? And vice versa?
  • Would your peers’ annotations help them with a theoretical semester project on Roman satire? Why or why not?
  • What best practices for annotations might you extrapolate from the compendium?

Friendly reminder to turn in your scansion from Wednesday with any necessary corrections before today’s class — if you haven’t already done so.

DC

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Assignment for Wednesday, 04.15.20

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 15, please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 3.171–214.

(2) Download, print, and fill in scansion drill 7.

As is now the custom, we’ll discuss the scansion in class, and then you can turn it in by email before Friday’s class.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 04.13.20

Dear Satirists,

On Monday, April 13, our modified semester project continues. Please do the following.

  • Submit your annotations to me as a PDF by email by noon (EST).

I’ll compile your annotations into one document, and circulate it before class on Friday, April 17, which is when we’ll discuss what you all had to say.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 04.10.20

Dear Satirists,

For Friday, April 10, please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 3.41–80.

(2) Review carefully the compendium (sent via email) of your peers’ annotations on Gold (2012). Ask yourselves the following questions as you proceed.

  • What did you notice about the piece that your peers did not? And vice versa?
  • Would your peers’ annotations help them with a theoretical semester project on Roman satire? Why or why not?
  • What best practices for annotations might you extrapolate from the compendium?

Friendly reminder to turn in your scansion from Wednesday with any necessary corrections before today’s class — if you haven’t already done so.

DC

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Assignment for Wednesday, 04.08.20

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 8, please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 3.1–40.

(2) Download, print (if possible), and fill in scansion drill 6.

As we did the previous week, we’ll discuss the scansion in class, and then you can turn it in by email before Friday’s class.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 04.06.20

Dear Satirists,

On Monday, April 6, our modified semester project officially gets underway. Please do the following.

  • Annotate, per the new instructions on our Semester Project page, Barbara Gold’s essay, “Juvenal: The Idea of the Book” (2012).
  • Submit your annotations to me as a PDF by email by noon (EST).

I’ll compile your annotations into one document, and circulate it before class on Friday, April 10, which is when we’ll discuss what people had to say.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 04.03.20

Dear Satirists,

For Friday, April 3, please read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 1.87–131

This is as far in Juvenal’s first satire as we’ll be able to go this semester. Hopefully, you’ll have a sense of how he justifies the need for the genre in the imperial era.

Friendly reminder to turn in your scansion from Wednesday with any necessary corrections before today’s class — if you haven’t already done so.

DC

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