The Wheelock 2008 Equites Group Syllabus
Last updated January 19, 2009
2008
April 12: Ch. 1, SA (20 sentences)
Ch. 1, TR 1-5 "The Poet Horace Contemplates an Invitation"
April 19: Ch. 2, SA (20 sentences)
Ch. 2, TR 1-5 "Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell"
April 26: Ch. 3, PR, SA (22 sentences)
May 3: Ch. 3, TR 1-2, "The Grass is Always Greener"
GM 1-15, "Pandora's Box"
May 10: Ch. 4, PR, SA (26 sentences)
May 17: Ch. 4, TR 1-3, "The Rarity of Friendship"
GM 1-21, "The Tragic Story of Phaethon"
May 24: no assignment (Memorial day holiday)
May 31: Ch. 5, PR, SA (28 sentences)
June 7: Ch. 5, TR 1, "His Only Guest Was a Real Boar"
TR 2-4, "Thermopylae: A Soldier's Humor"
GM 1-15, "The Adventures of Io"
June 14: Ch. 6, PR, SA (24 sentences)
June 21: Ch. 6, TR 1, "'I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell'"
TR 2-5, "Historian Livy Laments the Decline of Roman Morals"
GM 1-13, "The Curse of Atreus"
June 28: Ch. 7, PR, SA (27 sentences)
July 5: no assignment (holiday)
July 12: Ch. 7, TR 1-3, "The Rape of Lucretia"
TR 4-6, "Catullus Dedicates His Poetry Book"
GM 1-11, "Cleobis and Biton"
Note that line 7 should start with "Nunc".
July 19: Ch. 8, PR, SA (28 sentences)
July 26: Ch. 8, TR 1-3, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War
GM 1-14, "Laocoon and the Trojan Horse"
August 2: Ch. 9, PR, SA (23 sentences)
August 9: Ch. 9, TR 1, "When I Have...Enough" [Martial]
TR 2-6, "When I Have...Enough" [Seneca]
GM 1-16, "Nisus and Euryalus"
August 16 : Ch. 10, PR, SA (29 sentences)
August 23: Ch. 10, TR 1-4, "The Incomparable Value of Friendship"
GM 1-14, "Aurora and Tithonus"
August 30: no assignment (Labor Day)
Sept. 6: Ch. 11, PR, SA (29 sentences)
Sept. 13: Ch. 11, TR 1-14, "Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate"
GM 1-22, "Ulysses and the Cyclops"
Sept 20: Ch. 12, PR, SA (26 sentences)
Sept 27: Ch. 12 TR 1-8, "Pliny Writes to Marcellinus"
TR 9, "Diaulus Still Buries His Clients"
GM 1-10, "A Gift Bearing Greeks"
Oct 4: Ch. 13, PR, SA (25 sentences)
Oct 11: Ch. 13, TR 1-5, "Alexander the Great and the Power of Literature"
TR 6-9, "The Authority of a Teacher's Opinion"
GM 1-15, "Echo and Handsome Narcissus"
Oct 18: Ch. 14, PR, SA (25 sentences)
Oct 25: Ch. 14, TR 1, "Store Teeth"
TR 2-6, "Cicero Imagines the State of Rome..."
GM 1-15, "Europa and the Bull"
Nov 1: Ch. 15, PR, SA (23 sentences)
Nov 8: Ch. 15, TR 1-4, "Cyrus' Dying Words on Immortality"
TR 5-8, "Fabian Tactics"
GM 1-14, "How the Aegean Got Its Name"
Nov 15: Ch. 16, PR, SA (31 sentences)
Nov 22: Ch. 16, TR 1-7, "Juvenal Explains His Impulse to Satire"
TR 8, "On a Temperamental Friend"
GM 1-12, "The Wrath of Achilles"
Nov 29: no assignment (Thanksgiving holiday)
Dec 6: Ch. 17, PR, SA (26 sentences)
Dec 13: Ch. 17, TR 1-5, "On the Pleasures of Love in Old Age"
TR 6, "It's All in the Delivery
GM 1-9, "The Myrmidons"
Dec 20: no assignment (Christmas holiday)
Dec 27: no assignment (Christmas holiday)
2009
Jan 3: no assignment (New Year's holiday)
Jan 10: Ch. 18, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Jan 17: Ch. 18, TR 1-6, "On Death and Metamorphosis"
GM 1-11, "A Wedding Invitation
Jan 24: Ch. 19, PR, SA (22 sentences)
TR 1, "Message from a Bookcase"
Jan 31: Ch. 19, TR 1-5, "The Aged Playwright Sophocles Holds His Own
TR 6, "Catullus Bids a Bitter Farewell to Lesbia"
GM 1-15, "The Judgement of Paris"
7 Feb: Ch. 20, PR, SA (28 sentences)
14 Feb: Ch. 20, TR 1-11, "Cicero Urges Catiline's Departure from Rome"
GM 1-12, "The Labors of Hercules"
21 Feb: Ch. 21, PR, SA (28 sentences)
28 Feb: Ch. 21, TR 1-6, "Vergil's Messianic Eclogue"
GM 1-10, The Golden Age Returns"
7 Mar: Ch. 22, PR, SA (32 sentences)
14 Mar: Ch. 22, TR 1, "A Visit from the Young Interns"
TR 2-4, "On Ambition and Literature"
GM 1-11, "Cicero Reports His Victory Over Catiline"
21 Mar: Ch. 23, PR, SA (28 sentences)
28 Mar: Ch. 23, TR 1-12, "Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse"
GM 1-9, "Watching the Orator at Work"
4 April: Ch. 24, PR, SA (25 sentences)
11 April: Ch. 24, TR 1, "De Cupiditate [Horace]"
TR 2-3, "De Cupiditate [Cicero]"
TR 4-5, "De Cupiditate [Phaedrus]"
TR 6-10, "The Satirist's Modus Operandi"
GM 1-11, "Caesar's Camp is Attacked by Belgians"
18 April: Ch. 25, PR, SA (32 sentences)
25 April: Ch. 25, TR 1-12, "The Death of Laocoon...And Troy"
GM 1-8, "The Character of Catiline's Followers"
2 May: Ch. 26, PR, SA (31 sentences)
9 May: Ch. 26, TR 1-4, "The Nations of Gaul"
TR 5-6, "The Good Life"
GM 1-16, "The Virtues of the Orator Cato"
16 May: Ch. 27, PR, SA (28 sentences)
23 May: Ch. 27, TR 1, "Alley Cat"
TR 2, "Thanks a Lot, Tully"
TR 3-9, "An Uncle's Love for His Nephew..."
GM 1-10, "Old Age is Not a Time for Despair"
30 May: no assignment -- Memorial Day
6 June: Ch. 28, PR, SA (27 sentences)
13 June: Ch. 28, TR 1, "Please Remove My Name From Your Mailing List"
TR 2, "To Have Friends, One Must Be Friendly"
TR 3-12, "The Days of the Week"
GM 1-5, "Two Love Poems By Catullus"
20 June: Ch. 29, PR, SA (29 sentences)
27 June: Ch. 29, TR 1-2, "How Many Kisses Are Enough?"
TR 3-8, "The Nervousness of Even a Great Orator"
TR 9, "You're All Just Wonderful!"
GM 1-9, "Quintilian Praises the Oratory of Cicero"
4 July: no assignment (holiday)
11 July: Ch. 30, PR, SA (29 sentences)
18 July: Ch. 30, TR 1-9, "Evidence and Confession"
TR 10, "A Covered-Dish Dinner!"
TR 11, "A Legacy Hunter's Wish"
TR 12, "Note on a Copy of Catullus' Carmina"
GM 1-13, "Pliny Writes to His Friends"
25 July: Ch. 31, PR, SA (28 sentences)
1 Aug: Ch. 31, TR 1, "Give Me a Thousand Kisses"
TR 2, "Ringo"
TR 3-5, "Facetiae"
GM 1-14, "Lucretia, Paragon of Virtue"
8 Aug: Ch. 32, PR, SA (33 sentences)
15 Aug: Ch. 32, TR 1-8, "The Character of Cimon"
TR 9, "A Vacation...From You!"
TR 10, "Please...Don't!
GM 1-9, "Vergil Praises the Rustic Life"
22 Aug: Ch. 33, PR, SA (24 sentences)
29 Aug: Ch. 33, TR 1, "B.Y.O.B."
TR 2, "The Rich Get Richer"
TR 3, "Aristotle, Tutor of Alexander the Great"
TR 4-5, "Your Loss, My Gain!"
(There should be a period, not a comma, after "recEpisti.")
GM 1-10, "The Helvetians Parley With Caesar
5 September: no assignment (Labor Dayy)
12 Sept: Ch. 34, PR, SA (31 sentences)
19 Sept: Ch. 34, TR 1-4, "Claudius' Excremental Expiration"
TR 5, "And Vice Is Not Nice"
TR 6, "Pretty Is As Pretty Does"
TR 7, "On Lesbia's Husband"
GM 1-7, "Sallust's View of Human Nature"
26 Sept: Ch. 35, PR, SA (32 sentences)
3 Oct: Ch. 35, TR 1, "Ovid Asks the Gods to Inspire His Work"
TR 2-7, "Sorry, Nobody's Home!"
TR 8, "'I Do.' 'I Don't'"
TR 9, "Maronilla Has a Cough"
TR 10, "Summer Vacation"
GM 1-23, "A Conversation From Roman Comedy"
10 Oct: Ch. 36, PR, SA (32 sentences)
17 Oct: Ch. 36, TR 1, "The Quality of Martial's Book"
TR 2, "I Don't Cook for Cooks!"
TR 3, "I Love Her....I Love Her Not"
TR 4, "Oh, I'd Love to Read You My Poems -- Not!"
TR 5-6, "Who Is Truly Free?"
TR 7-13, "Testimony Against the Conspirators"
GM 1-8, "A Crisis in Roman Education"
24 Oct : Ch. 37, PR, SA (33 sentences)
31 Oct: Ch. 37, TR 1, "Thanks, But No Thanks"
TR 2-9, "Trimalchio's Epitaph"
TR 10-16, "Marcus Quinto Fratri S."
GM 1-24, "Horace Meets a Boorish Fellow"
7 Nov: Ch. 38, PR, SA (31 sentences)
14 Nov: Ch. 38, TR 1, "Note on a Book By Lucan"
TR 2, "Oh, Give Me a Figgy Sprig!"
TR 3-4, "The Most Pitiful Speech I've Ever Heard"
TR 5-14, "Two Letters to Cicero"
TR 15, "Ask Me If I Care"
GM 1-7, "Cicero Speaks About the Nature of the Soul"
21 Nov: Ch. 39, PR, SA (30 sentences)
28 Nov: no assignment (Thanksgiving)
5 Dec: Ch. 39, TR 1, "Promises, Promises!"
TR 2, "Paete, Non Dolet"
TR 3-12, "Hannibal and the Beginnings of the Second Punic War"
GM 1-10, "Cicero Evaluates Two Famous Roman Orators
12 Dec: Ch. 40, PR, SA (33 sentences)
19 Dec: Ch. 40, TR 1, "Jupiter Prophesies to Venus the Future Glory of Rome"
TR 2-3, "The Value of Literature"
TR 4, "A Monument More Lasting Than Bronze"
GM 1-11, "Hannibal and the Romans Fight to a Draw"
FINIS!
