Latin 530
Fall 2024
Study Guide for Final Examination
N.B.: the exam is Wednesday, December 18 (3:30-5:50pm)
Part I (identifications): you will be asked to identify a specified number of terms with an informative short answer explaining the item’s relevance/significance for this course. [Part I = ca. 15% of total exam points]
The items are likely to come from this list:
| Publius Terentius Afer codex Bembinus Aelius Donatus non-expository prologue contaminatio aposiopesis sermo purus metatheater Menander's Adelphoi B Diphilus' Synapothnescontes |
Micio |
Parmeno |
Part II: translation of prepared passages (from Adelphoe 448-996 and Eunuchus 539-614 (there is a text and commentary of Eunuchus 539-614 in D2L "Content" for December 18). There will be some questions (mostly morphological & syntactic) about individual words. [Part II = ca. 75% of total exam points]
Part III: brief commentary on Latin passage(s); you will be asked to comment on (a) selected passage(s) in Latin (from anywhere in Adelphoe, not only 448-996) with a carefully organized short answer. [Part III = ca. 10% of total exam points] The answer format is as follows:
(1) identify the speaker(s) of the passage
(2) briefly describe the context in which the passage occurs
(3) write a carefully organized short answer commenting on the significance of the passage in light of (e.g.) the work’s themes, ideas, style, comic and/or dramatic aims & techniques, its characters, its (socio-)historical or dramatic/literary significance, dramatic/literary, poetic and/or rhetorical qualities (et al.).