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:
Maecenas
Tityrus
Meliboeus
apostrophe
ekphrasis
Pyrrhus
Priam
Anchises
Creusa
Iulus/Ascanius
Andromache
Buthrotum
Anna
univira
Marcellus
katabasis
Lavinia
Silvia's stag
Umbro
Evander
aristeia
Chloreus
epyllion
Danaids
Cleopatra
sphragis
recusatio
Battle of Actium (31 BCE)
Battle of Philippi (42 BCE)
Perusine War (41 BCE)
“Roman Odes”
Messalla
Cerinthus
Corinna
carmen et error
Tomis
praeceptor amoris
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:
Octavian/Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE)
pietas
Juno
Jupiter
Augustan teleology
Vergil's subjective style
Dido
"grant the conquered clemency, and crush the proud in war"
Gates of Horn & Ivory
Turnus
Nisus & Euryalus
Pallas
Camilla
orientalism
priamel
carpe diem
vates
Cynthia
docta puella
paraclausithyron
servitium amoris
militia amoris
Delia
Sulpicia
Tibullus
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; [see the titles below – you don't need to know individual book/poem numbers]
(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]:
Horace, Odes 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.24, 1.37, 3.6, 3.30
Ovid, Amores 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 1.14-15, 2.1, 2.14, 2.18, 3.15
Ovid,
Heroides 7
Ovid, Art of Love 1.1-262
Ovid,
Tristia 3.10, 3.12
Propertius, Elegies 1.1, 1.7, 1.16, 1.19, 1.21-22, 2.5, 2.7, 2.13, 2.29b, 3.4
Sulpicia, Elegies 13.13-18
Tibullus, Elegies 1.1-2, 1.5
Vergil, Aeneid 1-2, 3.292-505, 4, 6.1-211 6.450-477, 6.756-901, 7-8, 9.1-502, 10.439-908, 11.445-915, 12.697-952
Vergil, Eclogues 1
Vergil, Georgics 1.1-42, 3.478-566