The Wheelock 2008 Ignis Group Syllabus
Last updated September 15, 2008
2008
Sep 20: Ch. 1, SA (20 sentences)
Ch. 1, TR 1-5 "The Poet Horace Contemplates an Invitation"
Sep 27: Ch. 2, SA (20 sentences)
Ch. 2, TR 1-5 "Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell"
Oct 4: Ch. 3, PR, SA (22 sentences)
Oct 11: Ch. 3, TR 1-2, "The Grass is Always Greener"
GM 1-15, "Pandora's Box"
Oct 18: Ch. 4, PR, SA (26 sentences)
Oct 25: Ch. 4, TR 1-3, "The Rarity of Friendship"
GM 1-21, "The Tragic Story of Phaethon"
Nov 1: Ch. 5, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Nov 8: 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"
Nov15: Ch. 6, PR, SA (24 sentences)
Nov 22: 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"
Nov 29: Thanksgiving--No assignment
Dec 6: Ch. 7, PR, SA (27 sentences)
Dec 13: 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".
Dec 20: Ch. 8, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Dec 27: No assignment
2009
Jan 3: No assignment.
Jan 10: Ch. 8, TR 1-3, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War
GM 1-14, "Laocoon and the Trojan Horse"
Jan 17: Ch. 9, PR, SA (23 sentences)
Jan 24: Ch. 9, TR 1, "When I Have...Enough" [Martial]
TR 2-6, "When I Have...Enough" [Seneca]
GM 1-16, "Nisus and Euryalus"
Jan 31: Ch. 10, PR, SA (29 sentences)
Feb 7: Ch. 10, TR 1-4, "The Incomparable Value of Friendship"
GM 1-14, "Aurora and Tithonus"
Feb 14: Ch. 11, PR, SA (29 sentences)
Feb 21: Ch. 11, TR 1-14, "Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate"
GM 1-22, "Ulysses and the Cyclops"
Feb 28: Ch. 12, PR, SA (26 sentences)
Mar 7: Ch. 12 TR 1-8, "Pliny Writes to Marcellinus"
TR 9, "Diaulus Still Buries His Clients"
GM 1-10, "A Gift Bearing Greeks"
Mar 14: Ch. 13, PR, SA (25 sentences)
Mar 21: 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"
Mar 28: Ch. 14, PR, SA (25 sentences)
Apr 4: Ch. 14, TR 1, "Store Teeth"
TR 2-6, "Cicero Imagines the State of Rome..."
GM 1-15, "Europa and the Bull"
Apr 11 No assignment--Easter
Apr 18: Ch. 15, PR, SA (23 sentences)
Apr 25: Ch. 15, TR 1-4, "Cyrus' Dying Words on Immortality"
TR 5-8, "Fabian Tactics"
GM 1-14, "How the Aegean Got Its Name"
May 2: Ch. 16, PR, SA (31 sentences)
May 9: Ch. 16, TR 1-7, "Juvenal Explains His Impulse to Satire"
TR 8, "On a Temperamental Friend"
GM 1-12, "The Wrath of Achilles"
May 16: Ch. 17, PR, SA (26 sentences)
May 23: No assignment
May 30: 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"
Jun 6: Ch. 18, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Jun 13: Ch. 18, TR 1-6, "On Death and Metamorphosis"
GM 1-11, "A Wedding Invitation
Jun 20: Ch. 19, PR, SA (22 sentences)
TR 1, "Message from a Bookcase"
Jun 27: 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"
July 4: No assignment
July 11: Ch. 20, PR, SA (28 sentences)
July 18: Ch. 20, TR 1-11, "Cicero Urges Catiline's Departure from Rome"
GM 1-12, "The Labors of Hercules"
July 25: Ch. 21, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Aug 1: Ch. 21, TR 1-6, "Vergil's Messianic Eclogue"
GM 1-10, The Golden Age Returns"
Aug 8: Ch. 22, PR, SA (32 sentences)
Aug 15: 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"
Aug 22: Ch. 23, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Aug 29: Ch. 23, TR 1-12, "Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse"
GM 1-9, "Watching the Orator at Work"
Sep 5: No assignment
Sep 12: Ch. 24, PR, SA (25 sentences)
Sep 19: 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"
Sep 26: Ch. 25, PR, SA (32 sentences)
Oct 3: Ch. 25, TR 1-12, "The Death of Laocoon...And Troy"
GM 1-8, "The Character of Catiline's Followers"
Oct 10: Ch. 26, PR, SA (31 sentences)
Oct 17: Ch. 26, TR 1-4, "The Nations of Gaul"
TR 5-6, "The Good Life"
GM 1-16, "The Virtues of the Orator Cato"
Oct 24: Ch. 27, PR, SA (28 sentences)
Oct 31: 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"
Nov 7: Ch. 28, PR, SA (27 sentences)
Nov 14: 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"
Nov 21: Ch. 29, PR, SA (29 sentences)
Nov 28: Thanksgiving -- no assignment
Dec 5: 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"
Dec 12: Ch. 30, PR, SA (29 sentences)
Dec 19: 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"
Dec 26: Christmas -- No assignment
... to be continued ...
