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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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Assignment for Wednesday, 04.01.20

Dear Satirists,

For Wednesday, April 1 (NO FOOLING!), please do the following.

(1) Read and translate

  • Juvenal, Satire 1.45–86

(2) Download, print (if possible), and fill in scansion drill 5. Remember, we’ll now be marking

  • long and short syllables
  • foot divisions
  • elisions
  • the principal caesura in each line
  • the bucolic diaeresis, where applicable

Given these trying times, you might have to get creative with your markings if you can’t print out the sheet. I believe in you. We’ll discuss the scansion in class, and then you can turn it in by email before Friday.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 03.27.20

Dear Satirists,

For Friday, March 27, please read and translate Juvenal, Satire 1.14–44. Make use of our new commentators, Rudd and Courtney, to help you through the more difficult passages. We’ll be reading poem 1 in its entirety over the next few classes.

Based on today’s dry run of the first twelve lines, let me offer some tips:

  • Juvenal likes participles, and uses them to extend the life of his constructions. So be sure to trace the participle back to a key noun, whether expressed or unexpressed.
  • He also likes to drop references, so the commentary will be crucial to decoding them.
  • Because Juvenal goes for tightly-packed sentences, be sure to take a step back and try to appreciate the larger syntactical picture.

DC

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