I think of reading the Aeneid rather like going on a pilgrimage. We will have good days, and not so good. We will make great progress, everything will click and we'll rattle off a surprising number of lines on the good days and we'll hardly get through twenty lines on the bad. So, rather than break down our study of the Aeneid into the rotations I've included just the line numbers we will cover at the minimum.
You will have reading or revision outside of class every day. Quizzes will come in two varieties:
1. Beware the Crazy Ivan vocab quiz! In order to assess your reading at home you will have brief spot check vocabulary-in-context quizzes. These can come at any time for any passage we just covered. Be sure you cover your homework lines.
2. Thematic Essay. You will respond to a topic of my choosing with coherent writing with copious references to the text.
Your daily grade (5 points at a time, but they do add up) will come from effort in class per day. I'll compile the 25 points per week every Friday.
Major assessments will come when we near the end of a book, so to plan them would be to plan the class, which I'm not doing. So we will find an agreeable time to all for each major test.
Exams are exams.
Selections from Book 1:
1 -33
34-80 in English
81-123 (storm and Aeneas’ reaction)
123-179
180-209 (Such words he spoke, while sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face…pietas)
441 (temple of Juno) - 519 (comrades coming to the temple) Focus in English on 657-756
Selections from Book 2:
1-40 (In English aloud)
40-56 (Laocoon casting the spear into the horse)
56-201 (Sinon) In English
201-249 (Laocoon eaten by the serpents)
250- 267 (In English)
268-297 (Hector’s Ghost/ Aeneas’ Mission)
469-559 (Priam’s Death)
559-620 (Aeneas sees Helen, remembers family, and sees gods destroying Troy) possible cut…
620-804 In English (the portent over Iulus’ head)
Read Lombardo for Book 3.
Selections from Book 4:
1-30 (Dido to Anna)
30-54 (Anna to Dido) In English aloud
54-89 (Dido’s lovesickness)
90-160 (Juno to Aphrodite)
160-218 (Aeneas’ and Dido’s ‘marriage’)
219-259 (Jupiter to Mercury)
259-361 (Mercury to Aeneas/ Aeneas to Dido)
Read Lombardo to get to...
642-705 (Dido’s Suicide)
Distribute book summary for Book 5.
Selections from Book 6 (Read all passages in English in addition to Latin):
83-210 The Golden Bough
211 - 284 the Shady Elm
295-332 (Aeneas goes to Acheron with Sibyl)
337-384 (encounter with Palinurus) In English
384-425 (Aeneas and Sibyl cross the river Styx) 425-440 In English
440-476 (Aeneas meets Dido)
756-847 (Anchises begins recounting the famous Romans to come.)
847-901 (Fabius, Marcellus, the gifts that belong to Romans…two gates to exit the underworld)
Book 7 in English
Book 8 in English
Book 9 in English
Selections from Book 10:
420-509 (Pallas killed by Turnus)
509-908 in English
Book 11 in English
Selections from Book 12:
791-886
You will have reading or revision outside of class every day. Quizzes will come in two varieties:
1. Beware the Crazy Ivan vocab quiz! In order to assess your reading at home you will have brief spot check vocabulary-in-context quizzes. These can come at any time for any passage we just covered. Be sure you cover your homework lines.
2. Thematic Essay. You will respond to a topic of my choosing with coherent writing with copious references to the text.
Your daily grade (5 points at a time, but they do add up) will come from effort in class per day. I'll compile the 25 points per week every Friday.
Major assessments will come when we near the end of a book, so to plan them would be to plan the class, which I'm not doing. So we will find an agreeable time to all for each major test.
Exams are exams.
Selections from Book 1:
1 -33
34-80 in English
81-123 (storm and Aeneas’ reaction)
123-179
180-209 (Such words he spoke, while sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face…pietas)
441 (temple of Juno) - 519 (comrades coming to the temple) Focus in English on 657-756
Selections from Book 2:
1-40 (In English aloud)
40-56 (Laocoon casting the spear into the horse)
56-201 (Sinon) In English
201-249 (Laocoon eaten by the serpents)
250- 267 (In English)
268-297 (Hector’s Ghost/ Aeneas’ Mission)
469-559 (Priam’s Death)
559-620 (Aeneas sees Helen, remembers family, and sees gods destroying Troy) possible cut…
620-804 In English (the portent over Iulus’ head)
Read Lombardo for Book 3.
Selections from Book 4:
1-30 (Dido to Anna)
30-54 (Anna to Dido) In English aloud
54-89 (Dido’s lovesickness)
90-160 (Juno to Aphrodite)
160-218 (Aeneas’ and Dido’s ‘marriage’)
219-259 (Jupiter to Mercury)
259-361 (Mercury to Aeneas/ Aeneas to Dido)
Read Lombardo to get to...
642-705 (Dido’s Suicide)
Distribute book summary for Book 5.
Selections from Book 6 (Read all passages in English in addition to Latin):
83-210 The Golden Bough
211 - 284 the Shady Elm
295-332 (Aeneas goes to Acheron with Sibyl)
337-384 (encounter with Palinurus) In English
384-425 (Aeneas and Sibyl cross the river Styx) 425-440 In English
440-476 (Aeneas meets Dido)
756-847 (Anchises begins recounting the famous Romans to come.)
847-901 (Fabius, Marcellus, the gifts that belong to Romans…two gates to exit the underworld)
Book 7 in English
Book 8 in English
Book 9 in English
Selections from Book 10:
420-509 (Pallas killed by Turnus)
509-908 in English
Book 11 in English
Selections from Book 12:
791-886