Format: the exam will consist of 3 sections, i.e. (1) Matching; (2) short Identifications; and (3) Commentaries on specific passages from your assigned reading.
Part I, Matching: you will be asked to match items listed with a brief description of them. [ca. 25% of total exam points]
A. List of possible items for Matching:
The Twelve Tables
Livius Andronicus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184 BCE)
Pseudolus (191 BCE)
Ballio
Menander
fabula palliata
Myrrhina
Lysidamus
Pardalisca
Magna Mater/Cybele
Publius Terentius Afer (184-159 BCE)
Parmeno
Chaerea
Phaedria
Thais
fabula praetexta
Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BCE)
instrumentum vocale
Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BCE)
Neoterics/Poetae Novi
Gaius Memmius
Titus Lucretius Carus (94-55 BCE)
Epicurus
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)
novus homo/"new man"
Atticus
Terentia
Tullia
concordia ordinum
Part II, short identifications: you will be asked to identify items listed – as they relate to CLAS 301B – with a few informative sentences [you will have choices]. [ca. 25% of total exam points]
B. List of possible items for Identification:
carmen
intertextuality
Greek New Comedy
metatheater
Pseudolus
cum manu vs. sine manu marriage
Cleostrata
Casina
contaminatio
ekphrasis of Jupiter & Danaë
suovetaurilia
Alexandrianism
nugae/nugatory poems
Lesbia
Attis
Cinna’s Zmyrna
materialism
ataraxia
Caesar
Pompey
Antony
Octavian
Part III, commentary: you will be asked to comment on selected passages [you will have choices]. The directions will read as follows [ca. 50% of total exam points]:
(1) identify the author;
(2) identify the work from which the passage is taken; [for Catullus you may simply write "Poems" without the poem number]
(3) identify the speaker(s) of the passage;
(4) briefly describe the context in which the passage occurs;
(5) write a carefully organized essay/short answer commenting on the larger significance of the passage in light of the work’s main themes, its characters, its historical, social-historical, or literary-historical significance, literary qualities, style and techniques, ideas, etc. [note that (5) is worth the majority of each commentary's points]
C. List of authors and works for Commentary [note that passages on the exam are likely to be those we discussed in class: see the course Outlines for these]:
Plautus, Casina & Pseudolus
Terence, Eunuchus
Cato, De Agri Cultura 1-6 (including preface), 53-60, 135-141, 142-143, 156-157
Catullus 1-8, 10-12, 15-16, 29, 48-49, 51, 57-58, 63, 69, 68a-b, 70, 72, 83, 85, 95, 101
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura/On the Nature of Things 1.1-634, 1.921-1117, 2.1-61, 2.216-293, 2.1023-1174, 3.1-93, 3.830-1094, 4.907-1287, 5.1-54, 6.1090-1286
Cicero, Letters 67-70, 74, 77, 82, 90-91, 115, 119-120, 123-124, 133, 136-139, 160, 164-166