Format: the exam will consist of 2 Parts:
Part I: identifications – you'll be asked to provide a few sentences/short paragraph identifying an item in terms of its significance and relevance to our class. [ca. 40% of total exam points]
Part II: commentaries on passages selected from your assigned readings (these are likely to be passages we discussed in class: see the course Outlines). [ca. 60% of total exam points]
Part I – possible items for the identifications
Phaedria
Chaerea
Thais
Pythias
ekphrasis of Jupiter & Danaë
Roman elegy
Perusine War
Octavian/Augustus
Cynthia
servitium amoris
militia amoris
Battle of Actium (31 BCE)
Cleopatra
Corinna
praeceptor amoris
Casina
Cleostrata
Lysidamus
Roman Revolution
principate
(Princeps)
dominus
pater patriae
Pax Romana
Caligula (emp. 37-41 CE)
Nero
(emp. 54-68 CE)
Great Fire of 64 CE
Domus Aurea
Part II – passages for commentary You will be given passages from the Roman literary works we have read since Examination #1* and asked to provide the following:
(1) identify the author;
(2) identify the title of the work from which the passage is taken;
(3) briefly describe the context in which the passage occurs;
(4) write a carefully organized paragraph or two commenting on the broader significance of the passage in light of our main course themes (slavery & freedom) and the specific topics we have covered so far [this is the most important part of your commentary and the majority of commentary points fall here].
*works we have read since Examination #1:
Terence, Eunuchus
Plautus, Casina
Propertius, Elegies 1.1, 2.7, 2.13, 2.13A, 3.11
Ovid, Amores 1.2-4,1.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.11A/B
Suetonius, Augustus, Caligula, Nero