The Wheelock Vesuvius Syllabus
Last updated March 17, 2013
2013
Jan 6: Ch. 1, Sententiae (S1-S20)
Jan 13: Ch. 1, "The Poet Horace Contemplates an Invitation" (TR1-TR5)
Jan 20: Ch. 2, Sententiae Antiquae (SA1-SA20)
Jan 27: Ch. 2, "Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell" (TR1-TR5)
Feb 3: Ch. 3, Exercitationes, SA (EX1-EX11, SA1-SA11)
Feb 10: Ch. 3, "The Grass is Always Greener" (TR1-TR2)
Groton & May, "Pandoras Box"
Feb 17: Ch. 4, EX, SA (EX1-EX12, SA1-SA14
Feb 24: Ch. 4, "The Rarity of Friendship" (TR1-TR3)
Groton & May, "The Tragic Story of Phaethon"
Mar 3: Ch. 5, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA13)
Mar 10: Ch. 5, "His Only Guest Was a Real Boar" (TR1)
"Thermopylae: A Soldier's Humor" (TR2-TR4)
Groton & May, "The Adventures of Io"
Mar 17: Ch. 6, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA10)
Mar 24: Ch. 6, "'I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell'" (TR1-TR2)
"Historian Livy Laments Decline of Roman Morals" (TR3-TR6)
Groton & May, "The Curse of Atreus"
Mar 31: Easter holiday, no translation
Apr 6: Ch. 7, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA13)
Apr 13: Ch. 7, "The Rape of Lucretia" (TR1-TR3)
"Catullus Dedicates His Poetry Book" (TR4-TR6)
Groton & May, "Cleobis and Biton"
Apr 20: Ch. 8, EX, SA (EX1-EX12, SA1-SA16)
Apr 27: Ch. 8, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War (TR1-TR3)
Groton & May, "Laocoon and the Trojan Horse"
May 4: Ch. 9, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA9)
May 11: Ch. 9, "When I Have...Enough" [Martial](TR1-TR2)
"When I Have...Enough" [Seneca] (TR3-TR7)
Groton & May, "Nisus and Euryalus"
May 18: Ch. 10, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA13)
May 25: Memorial Day holiday - no translation
Jun 1: Ch. 10, "The Incomparable Value of Friendship" (TR1-TR4)
Groton & May, "Aurora and Tithonus"
Jun 8: Ch. 11, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA12)
Jun 15: Ch. 11, "Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate" (TR1-TR14)
Groton & May, "Ulysses and the Cyclops"
Jun 22: Ch. 12, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA11)
Jun 29: Ch. 12, "Pliny Writes to Marcellinus" (TR1-TR8)
"Diaulus Still Buries His Clients" (TR9-TR10)
Groton & May, "A Gift Bearing Greeks"
Jul 6: Ch. 13, EX, SA (EX1-EX18, SA1-SA8)
Jul 13: Ch. 13, "Alexander the Great...Power of Literature"(TR1-TR5)
"The Authority of a Teacher's Opinion" (TR6-TR9)
Groton & May, "Echo and Handsome Narcissus"
Jul 20: Ch. 14, EX, SA (EX1-EX13, SA1-SA12)
Jul 27: Ch. 14, "Store Teeth" (TR1-TR3)
"Cicero Imagines the State of Rome..." (TR4-TR8)
Groton & May, "Europa and the Bull"
Aug 3: Ch. 15, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA9)
Apr 10: Ch. 15, "Cyrus' Dying Words on Immortality" (TR1-TR4)
"Fabian Tactics" (TR5-TR8)
Groton & May, "How the Aegean Got Its Name"
Aug 17: Ch. 16, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA16)
Aug 24: Ch. 16, "Juvenal Explains His Impulse to Satire" (TR1-TR7)
"On a Temperamental Friend" (TR8)
Groton & May, "The Wrath of Achilles"
Aug 31: Labor Day holiday - no translation
Sep 7: Ch. 17, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA12)
Sep 14: Ch. 17, "On the Pleasures of Love in Old Age" (TR1-TR5)
"It's All in the Delivery (TR6)
Groton & May, "The Myrmidons (Ant People)"
Sep 21: Ch. 18, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA13)
Sep 28: Ch. 18, "On Death and Metamorphosis" (TR1-TR6)
Groton & May, "A Wedding Invitation"
Oct 5: Ch. 19, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA7)
Oct 12: Ch. 19, "The...Playwright Sophocles Holds His Own (TR1-TR5)
"Catullus Bids...Farewell to Lesbia" (TR6-TR11)
"Message from a Bookcase" (TR12)
Groton & May, "The Judgment of Paris"
Oct 19: Ch. 20, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA13)
Oct 26: Ch. 20, "Cicero...Catiline's Departure from Rome" (TR1-TR11)
Groton & May, "The Labors of Hercules"
Nov 2: Ch. 21, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA11)
Nov 9: Ch. 21, "Vergil's Messianic Eclogue" (TR1-TR6)
Groton & May, "The Golden Age Returns"
Nov 16: Ch. 22, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA16)
Nov 23: Ch. 22, "A Visit from the Young Interns" (TR1-TR2)
"On Ambition and Literature" (TR3-TR5)
Groton & May, "Cicero Reports His Victory Over Catiline"
Nov 30: Ch. 23, EX, SA (EX1-EX14, SA1-SA14)
Dec 7: Ch. 23, "Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse" (TR1-TR11)
Groton & May, "Watching the Orator at Work"
Dec 14: Ch. 24, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA8)
Dec 21: Ch. 24, "De Cupiditate" [Horace](TR1)
"De Cupiditate" [Cicero](TR2-TR4)
"De Cupiditate" [Phaedrus](TR5-TR6)
"The Satirists Modus Operandi" (TR7-TR11)
Groton & May, "Caesars Camp Is Attacked by Belgians"
Dec 28: Christmas/New Years holidays - no translation
2014
Jan 4: Ch. 25, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA16)
Jan 11: Ch. 25, "The Death of Laocoon...And Troy" (TR1-TR12)
Groton & May, "The Character of Catilines Followers"
Jan 18: Ch. 26, EX, SA (EX1-EX18, SA1-SA13)
Jan 25: Ch. 26, "The Nations of Gaul" (TR1-TR4)
"The Good Life" (TR5-TR6)
Groton & May, "The Virtues of the Orator Cato"
Feb 1: Ch. 27, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA13)
Feb 8: Ch. 27, "Alley Cat" (TR1)
"Thanks a Lot, Tully" (TR2)
"An Uncle's Love for His Nephew..." (TR3-TR9)
Groton & May, "Old Age Is Not a Time For Despair
Feb 15: Ch. 28, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA12)
Feb 22: Ch. 28, "Please Remove...From Your Mailing List" (TR1-TR2)
"To Have Friends, One Must Be Friendly" (TR3-TR4)
"The Days of the Week" (TR5-TR14)
Groton & May, "Two Love Poems by Catallus"
Mar 1: Ch. 29, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA14)
Mar 8: Ch. 29, "How Many Kisses Are Enough?" (TR1-TR2)
"The Nervousness of Even a Great Orator" (TR3-TR8)
"You're All Just Wonderful!" (TR9)
Groton & May, "Quintilian Praises the Oratory of Cicero"
Mar 15: Ch. 30, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA13)
Mar 22: Ch. 30, "Evidence and Confession" (TR1-TR9)
"A Covered-Dish Dinner!" (TR10-TR11)
"A Legacy Hunter's Wish" TR12)
"Note on a Copy of Catullus' Carmina" (TR13)
Groton & May, "Pliny Writes To His Friends
Mar 29: Ch. 31, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA12)
Apr 5: Ch. 31, "Give Me a Thousand Kisses" (TR1-TR4)
"Ringo" (TR5-TR6)
"Facetiae" (TR7-TR8)
Groton & May, "Lucretia: Paragon of Virtue"
Apr 12: Ch. 32, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA16)
Apr 19: Easter holiday - no translation
Apr 26: Ch. 32, "The Character of Cimon" (TR1-TR8)
"A Vacation...From You!" (TR9-TR10)
"Please...Don't! (TR11-TR12)
Groton & May, "Virgil Praises the Rustic Life"
May 3: Ch. 33, EX, SA (EX1-EX15, SA1-SA110
May 10: Ch. 33, "B.Y.O.B." (TR1-TR2)
"The Rich Get Richer" (TR3)
"Aristotle, Tutor of Alexander the Great" (TR4)
"Your Loss, My Gain!" (TR5-TR6
Groton & May, "The Helvetians Parley With Caesar"
May 17: Ch. 34, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA14)
May 24: Memorial Day holiday - mo translation
May 31: Ch. 34, "Claudius' Excremental Expiration" (TR1-TR4)
"And Vice Is Not Nice" (TR5)
"Pretty Is As Pretty Does" (TR6-TR7)
"On Lesbia's Husband" (TR8-TR10)
Groton & May, "Sallusts View of Human Nature"
Jun 7: Ch. 35, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA17)
Jun 14: Ch. 35, "Ovid Asks the Gods to Inspire His Work" (TR1)
"Sorry, Nobody's Home!" (TR2-TR7)
"'I Do.' 'I Don't'" (TR8-TR10)
"Maronilla Has a Cough" (TR11-TR14)
"Summer Vacation" (TR15)
Groton & May, "A Conversation from Roman Comedy"
Jun 21: Ch. 36, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, SA1-SA17)
Jun 28: Ch. 36, "The Quality of Martial's Book" (TR1)
"I Don't Cook for Cooks!" (TR2-TR3)
"I Love Her....I Love Her Not" (TR4-TR5)
"Oh, I'd Love to Read You My Poems -- Not!" (TR6-TR7)
"Who Is Truly Free?" (TR8-TR9)
"Testimony Against the Conspirators" (T10-T16)
Groton & May, "A Crisis in Roman Education"
Jul 5: Independence Day holiday - no translation
Jul 12: Ch. 37, EX, SA (EX1-EX18, SA1-SA16)
Jul 19: Ch. 37, "Thanks, But No Thanks" TR1-TR4)
"Trimalchio's Epitaph" (TR5-TR12)
"Marcus Quinto Fratri S." (TR13-TR19)
Groton & May, "Horace Meets a Boorish Fellow"
Jul 26: Ch. 38, EX, SA (EX1-EX17, ASA1-SA16)
Aug 2: Ch. 38, "Note on a Book By Lucan" (TR1)
"Oh, Give Me a Figgy Sprig!" (TR2)
"The Most Pitiful Speech I've Ever Heard" (TR3-TR4)
"Two Letters to Cicero" (TR5-TR14)
"Ask Me If I Care" (TR15)
Groton & May, "Cicero Speaks About the Nature of the Soul"
Aug 9: Ch. 39, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA15)
Aug 16: Ch. 39, "Promises, Promises!" (TR1-TR2)
"Paete, Non Dolet" (TR3)
"Hannibal and the Beginnings of the Second Punic War"
(TR4-TR13)
Groton & May, "Cicero Evaluates Two Famous Roman Orators
Aug 23: Ch. 40, EX, SA (EX1-EX16, SA1-SA17)
Aug 30: Ch. 40, "Jupiter Prophesies to Venus...Glory of Rome"
(TR1-TR6)
"The Value of Literature" (TR7-TR8)
"A Monument More Lasting Than Bronze" (TR9-TR10)
Groton & May, "Hannibal and the Romans Fight to a Draw"
