Classics 98 (Junior Tutorial): City and Country in Greek and Roman Literature Fall 2011

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Classics 98 (Junior Tutorial): City and Country in Greek and Roman Literature Fall 2011 Instructor: Ryan Samuels Email: rsamuels@fas.harvard.

1 Classics 98 (Junior Tutorial): City and Country in Greek and Roman Literature Fall 2011 Instructor: Ryan Samuels Office Hours: by appointment Location: Sever 112 Meeting Time: T. 2:00-4:00 p.m. Description & Aims: Rarely in Greek and Roman literature may city and country be considered in isolation, as one is generally defined against the other (or, in the language of modern theory, Other ). The countryside is alternately a place of toil and of rest, of backwardness and of purity, while the city on the other hand may represent in turn refinement or excess, high culture or degeneracy. As we trace its ambivalent development across of the town mouse and the country mouse time, space, and genre, the binary discourse of city Tale Woodcut by Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, 1577 and country will serve as a lens through which we The Warburg Institute will also consider such related discursive pairs as page 166 agriculture and commerce, free and slave, male and female, wealth and poverty, public Work Type illustration and private, work and leisure, the active and the contemplative life, the competing Date 1577 philosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism, capital and province, indigenous and foreign, past and present, old and young/new, progress and decline. Emphasis will be on the development of familiarity with theoretical approaches to Greek and Latin texts and of practical research skills. Expectations and Policies: Students will give weekly presentations on individual assignments and actively contribute to discussion. Assigned readings and presentations represent a minimum, and students are expected to bring the results of additional primary and secondary research to each class. Portrait head of a man in rustic hat late 2nd c. BC Villa Albani (Rome, Italy) Attendance at every meeting is mandatory. It is the student s responsibility to have absences excused with a doctor s or resident dean s note in advance or as soon as possible after the missed class in the event of unforeseen circumstances. Unexcused absences will negatively affect the component of the student s grade allotted to attendance, preparation, and performance and chronic unexcused lateness or absence may be grounds for exclusion from the course. Unexcused absences will negatively affect the component of the student s grade 1

2 allotted to attendance, preparation, and performance by 1/3 of a letter grade (e.g., A to A-) for each instance. 1/3 of a letter grade will be deducted on assignments for each day late. Required Texts: None. Readings will be circulated in paper form, posted to the course website, or placed on reserve. Some primary sources in English translation may be accessed online. Grading: Attendance, Preparation, & Performance 20% Weekly Presentations (15-20 mins) 20% Essay (4-6 pages, due 10/21) 15% Final Paper Prospectus (abstract and annotated bibliography, due 11/18) 5% Final Paper (20 pages, due 12/11) 40% Schedule: Week 1 (09/06) Introduction Edwards, A. T Homer's ethical geography: country and city in the Odyssey. Transactions of the American Philological Association 123: Chapter 6. Persuading Perses. In Hesiod s Ascra. Berkeley: University of California Press Fowler, D On the Shoulders of Giants: Intertextuality and Classical Studies. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 39, Memoria, arte allusiva, intertestualita Harrison, S. J Laudes Italiae (Georgics ): Virgil as a Caesarian Hesiod. In Urso, G., ed. Patria diversis gentibus una?: unità politica e identità etniche nell'italia antica: atti del convegno internazionale: Cividale del Friuli, settembre Pisa: ETS Week 2 (09/13) Living Spaces Cullyer, H Agroikia and Pleasure in Aristotle. In Rosen, R. M. and Sluiter, I., edd. City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity. Leiden and Boston: Brill Dalby, A Chapter 7. Saeva urbs. Empire of Pleasures: Luxury and Indulgence in the Roman World. London and New York: Routledge Ramage, E. S. Chapter 4. The Ciceronian Period. In Urbanitas: ancient sophistication and refinement. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma for the University of Cincinnati Vernant, J. P Hesiod's Myth of the Races: An Essay in Structural Analysis. In Myth and thought among the Greeks. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

3 1. Urban and Rural Housing 2. Urban and Rural Religion 3. Attic Demes and Roman Suburbs 4. Public and Private Space Week 3 (09/20) Working Spaces Murnaghan, S Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition. In Rosen, R. M. and Sluiter, I., edd. City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity. Leiden and Boston: Brill Nelson, S Chapter 3. The Composition of the Georgics: Vergil s Farm. In God and the land: the metaphysics of farming in Hesiod and Vergil. New York: Oxford University Press Riikonen, H The attitude of Roman poets and orators to the countryside as a place for creative work. Arctos 10: Vernant, J. P Work and Nature in Ancient Greece. In Myth and thought among the Greeks. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Slavery 2. Manual Labor 3. Trade 4. Marx, Weber, the Consumer Model Week 4 (09/27) The Gentleman Farmer Astin, A. E Chapter 9. The De agricultura and Other Writings. In Cato the Censor. Oxford: Clarendon Press Johnstone, S Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style. Classical Philology 89: Reay, B Agriculture, Writing, and Cato's Aristocratic Self-Fashioning. Classical Antiquity 24: Cicero 2. Varro 3. L. Strauss and Straussianism 4. Foucault, Gender, and Sexuality 3

4 Week 5 (10/04) The other Other: the Sea and Seafaring D Arms, J. H Luxuria and the Bay of Naples and Baiae. In Romans on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Huxley, H. H The perils and penalties of seafaring. A stock theme in Latin poetry. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section 6: Rauh, N. K., Dillon, M. J., and McClain, T. D Ochlos nautikos: leisure culture and underclass discontent in the Roman maritime world. In Hohlfelder, R. L. ed. The maritime world of ancient Rome: proceedings of The Maritime World of Ancient Rome conference held at the American Academy in Rome March Anne Arbor: University of Michigan Press for the American Academy in Rome Reed, C. M Chapter 6. Unofficial attitudes toward maritime traders. In Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Rosen, R. M Poetry and sailing in Hesiod's Works and Days. Classical Antiquity 9: Nautical Metaphor 2. The Propempticon 3. Seafood and Gastronomy 4. Piracy Week 6 (10/11) Attic Tragedy Primary Text: Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus. In Lloyd-Jones, H., ed. and trans. Sophocles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical G v. 2] Blundell, M. W. "The ideal of Athens in Oedipus at Colonus. In Sommerstein, A. H. [et al.], edd. Tragedy, comedy and the polis: papers from the Greek drama conference. Nottingham, July Bari: Levante Krummen, E Athens and Attica: polis and countryside in Greek tragedy. In Sommerstein, A. H. [et al.], edd. Tragedy, comedy and the polis: papers from the Greek drama conference. Nottingham, July Bari: Levante Segal, C. P Chapter 2. A Structural Approach to Greek Myth and Tragedy. In Tragedy and Civilization: an Interpretation of Sophocles. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press Athenian Dramatic Festivals 2. Satyr Play 3. The Scapegoat 4. Euripides Bacchae 4

5 Week 7 (10/18) Old Comedy Primary Text: Aristophanes, Acharnians. In Henderson, J., ed. and trans. Aristophanes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical G v. 1] Compton-Engle, G. L From country to city: the persona of Dicaeopolis in Aristophanes' Acharnians. The Classical Journal 94: Fisher, N. R. E Multiple personalities and Dionysiac festivals: Dicaeopolis in Aristophanes' Acharnians. Greece & Rome 2 nd series 40: Slater, N. W Space, character, and ἀπάτη: transformation and transvaluation in the Acharnians. In Sommerstein, A. H. [et al.], edd. Tragedy, comedy and the polis: papers from the Greek drama conference. Nottingham, July Bari: Levante, Aristophanes and Old Comedy 2. Origins of Comedy 3. Agroikia 4. Bakhtin and Carnival Essay due F. 10/21 Week 8 (10/25) New Comedy Primary Text: Menander, Dyskolos. In Arnott, W. G. Menander. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical G v. 1] Leigh, M Chapter 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies. In Comedy and the Rise of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press Lowe, N. J "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34: Ramage, E. S City and country in Menander's Dyskolos. Philologus 110: Steer, C. E City slickers versus country bumpkin: farmers in the Acharnians of Aristophanes and the Dyskolos of Menander. In Egan, R. B. and Joyal, M. A., edd. Daimonopylai: essays in Classics and the classical tradition presented to Edmund G. Berry. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Centre for Hellenic Civilization

6 1. Menander and New Comedy I: Character 2. Menander and New Comedy II: Plot 3. Plautus and Terence 4. Middle Comedy Week 9 (11/01) Ptolemaic Alexandria Coleman, R Pastoral Poetry. In Higginbotham, J., ed. Greek and Latin literature: a comparative study. London: Methuen Bingen, J Chapters 8 and 9. Greek presence and the Ptolemaic rural setting and The urban milieu in the Egyptian countryside during the Ptolemaic period. In Hellenistic Egypt: monarchy, society, economy, culture. Berkeley: University of California Press Rowlandson, J Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt. In Erskine, A., ed. A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell Shipley, G Chapter 7. Literature and Social Identity. In The Greek World after Alexander, BC. London and New York: Routledge Theocritus 2. Virgil s Eclogues 3. Polyphemus 4. Ecphrasis Week 10 (11/08) The Library on the Tiber Primary Texts: Horace, Epode 2. In Rudd, N., ed. and trans. Odes and Epodes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical L 8.335] Tibullus 1.1. In Cornish, F. W., Postgate, J. P., and Mackail, J. W., trans. Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris. 2 nd ed. rev. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical L ] Libanius, Encomium 7: Farming, Comparison 4: Seafaring and Farming, and Comparison 5: Country and City. In Gibson, C. A., trans. Libanius's Progymnasmata: model exercises in Greek prose composition and rhetoric. Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature, , [Online via HOLLIS] Cairns, F Horace, Epode 2, Tibullus I, 1 and rhetorical praise of the countryside. Museum philologum Londiniense 1: Conte, G. B Chapter 3. An Interpretation of the Tenth Eclogue. In Segal, C., trans. The Rhetoric of Imitation: genre and poetic memory in Virgil and other Latin poets. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press

7 Gransden, K. W The pastoral alternative. Arethusa 3: , Ramage, E. S. Chapter 5. The Augustan Age. In Urbanitas: ancient sophistication and refinement. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma for the University of Cincinnati Elegy 2. The Georgics 3. The Aeneid 4. Calpurnius Siculus Week 11 (11/15) Satire Primary Texts: Horace, Satires 2.6. In Fairclough, H. R., trans. Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: W. Heinemann, [Smyth Classical L 8.331] Juvenal, Satires 3. In Braund, S. M., ed. and trans. Juvenal and Persius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Smyth Classical L 8.375] Anderson, W. S Rustic urbanity. Satirists in and out of Rome. Classical Outlook 61: Bond, R. P Urbs satirica: the city in Roman satire with special reference to Horace and Juvenal. Scholia N.S. 10: Braund, S. H City and Country in Roman Satire. In Braund, S. H., ed. Satire and society in ancient Rome. Exeter: University of Exeter Ramage, E. S. Chapter 6. The First Century after Christ. In Urbanitas: ancient sophistication and refinement. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma for the University of Cincinnati Lucilius and Horace 2. Juvenal and Persius 3. Catullus and Martial 4. Gardens: rus in urbe and Epicureanism Prospectus due F. 11/18 (250-word abstract, annotated bibliography of 5 sources) Week 12 (11/22) The Second Sophistic and the Novel Primary Texts: Dio Chrysostom, Discourses 7 and 36. 7

8 Bowie, E. L The Greeks and their Past in the Second Sophistic. In Finley, M. I., ed. Studies in Ancient Society. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul Brunt P. A Aspects of the social thought of Dio Chrysostom and of the Stoics. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 19: Desideri, P City and Country in Dio. In Swain, S., ed. Dio Chrysostom: politics, letters, and philosophy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Jones, C. P Chapter 7. Ideal Communities. In The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press Lucian 2. Longus 3. Philostratus 4. The Imperial Greek City Week 13 (11/29) Paper Presentations Paper due Sun. 12/11 8

Indicative Bibliography (excluding primary sources) A. Broad surveys of Greek and Latin Literature B. Thematic bibliography

Indicative Bibliography (excluding primary sources) A. Broad surveys of Greek and Latin Literature A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford 2010). G. Boys-Stones,