LATIN 1: Presentations

From time to time during the semester (you will be notified a couple of days in advance), each student will have the opportunity to give one formal oral report (of 10 minutes) to the class on one or another subject in Roman history, politics, literature, culture and civilization. You may use whatever materials you want in presenting your papers, e.g. laptop computer, PowerPoint presentations, visual aids, handouts, song, dance, mime, etc. These reports are graded, and are subject to being tested upon on the Final Exam, and are part of the learning strategy in fulfilment of the official Goals of this course.

Choice of Topics:

Your report should focus on what you think your fellow students need to know in order to understand the passages that we are translating in the "Loci Antiqui" in the textbook. Focus on the works of literature by or about these personages. You will choose your report (First come, first served.) topic from the following list:

TOPIC:	TOPIC:
Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.)	Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C.)
Phaedrus [English version in MP3]	Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina) [English version of Sallust in MP3]
Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) [English of Suetonius in MP3]	Horace (65-8 B.C.) (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Seneca the Younger (4 B.C.-65 AD)	Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Catullus (ca. 90-50 B.C.)	Marcus Porcius Cato the Censor [English of Plutarch in MP3]
Senate	Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
Populus	Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Plebs	legion(s)
Comitia	Marcus Antonius
Consilium Plebis	Romulus and Remus
consul	Caligula (Caius Julius Caesar)
forum	Nero
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Leonidas, King of Sparta & Thermopylae	Homer
Latin alphabet	Donatus the grammarian
Isidore of Seville	Latin Language

For your convenience in studying for the Final exam, links to "Wikipedia" or some good source have been provided.

Bibliography:

Some good places to look up basic information:

Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd edition
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature 2nd edition (ed. Margaret Howatson)
Oxford History of the Classical World (ed. J. Boardman, J. Griffin & O. Murray) (1986).
Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome (Oxford 1998)
J. W. Duff, A Literary History of Rome, from the Origins to the Close of the Golden Age 3rd edition (London 1961).
J. W. Duff and A. M. Duff, A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age 2nd ed. (London 1953).
H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature 5th edition (London 1962).
Matthias Gelzer, Caesar (Oxford: Blackwell 1968).
Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (University of California pb)
Manfred Fuhrmann, Cicero and the Roman Republic (Oxford: Blackwell 1992).
Donald Dudley, Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City & its Monuments (1967).
Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold, Roman Civilization, A Sourcebook,. Vol. I: The Republic