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              The Wheelock 2002 Blue Group Syllabus

Last updated March 24, 2002

2002

April 22:  Ch.  1, SA (20 sentences)
           Ch.  1, TR 1-5 "The Poet Horace Contemplates an Invitation"

April 29:  Ch.  2, SA (20 sentences)
           Ch.  2, TR 1-5 "Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell"

May    6:  Ch.  3, PR, SA (22 sentences)

May   13:  Ch.  3, TR 1-2, "The Grass is Always Greener"
                   GM 1-15, "Pandora's Box"
 
May   20:  Ch.  4, PR, SA (26 sentences)


May   27:   Memorial Day weekend -- no translation.

June   3:  Ch.  4, TR 1-3, "The Rarity of Friendship"
                   GM 1-21, "The Tragic Story of Phaethon"

June  10:  Ch.  5, PR, SA (28 sentences)

June  17:  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  24:  Ch.  6, PR, SA (24 sentences)

July   1:  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"

July  8:  Ch.  7, PR, SA (27 sentences)

July  15:  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  22:  Ch.  8, PR, SA (28 sentences)

July  29:  Ch.  8, TR 1-3, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War
                   GM 1-14, "Laocoon and the Trojan Horse"

Aug.   5:  Ch.  9, PR, SA (23 sentences)

Aug.  12:  Ch.  9, TR 1, "When I Have...Enough" [Martial]
                   TR 2-6, "When I Have...Enough" [Seneca]
                   GM 1-16,  "Nisus and Euryalus"

Aug.  19:  Ch. 10, PR, SA (29 sentences)

Aug.  26:  Ch. 10, TR 1-4, "The Incomparable Value of Friendship"
                   GM 1-14, "Aurora and Tithonus"

Sept.  2:  Labor Day weekend -- no translation.

Sept. 9:  Ch. 11, PR, SA (29 sentences)

Sept. 16:  Ch. 11, TR 1-14, "Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate"
                   GM 1-22, "Ulysses and the Cyclops"

Sept. 23:  Ch. 12, PR, SA (26 sentences)

Sept. 30:  Ch. 12  TR 1-8,  "Pliny Writes to Marcellinus"
                   TR 9,    "Diaulus Still Buries His Clients"
                   GM 1-10, "A Gift Bearing Greeks"

Oct.   7:  Ch. 13, PR, SA (25 sentences)

Oct.  14:  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.  21:  Ch. 14, PR, SA (25 sentences)

Oct.  28:  Ch. 14, TR 1, "Store Teeth"
                   TR 2-6, "Cicero Imagines the State of Rome..."
                   GM 1-15,  "Europa and the Bull"

Nov.   4:  Ch. 15, PR, SA (23 sentences)

Nov.  11:  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.  18:  Ch. 16, PR, SA (31 sentences)


Nov.  25:  Ch. 16, TR 1-7, "Juvenal Explains His Impulse to Satire"
                   TR 8, "On a Temperamental Friend"
                   GM 1-12,  "The Wrath of Achilles"

Dec.  2     Thanksgiving -- no translation.

Dec.  9:    Ch. 17, PR, SA (26 sentences)

Dec.   16:  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.  23:  Christmas -- no translation.

Dec.  30:  New Year -- no translation.

2003

Jan.  6:  Ch. 18, PR, SA (28 sentences)

Jan.  13:  Ch. 18, TR 1-6, "On Death and Metamorphosis"
                   GM 1-11, "A Wedding Invitation

Jan.  20:  Ch. 19, PR, SA (22 sentences)
                   TR 1, "Message from a Bookcase"

Jan.  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"

Feb.   3:  Ch. 20, PR, SA (28 sentences)

Feb.  10:  Ch. 20, TR 1-11, "Cicero Urges Catiline's Departure from Rome"
                   GM 1-12, "The Labors of Hercules"

Feb.  17:  Ch. 21, PR, SA (28 sentences)

Feb.  24:  Ch. 21, TR 1-6, "Vergil's Messianic Eclogue"
                   GM 1-10, The Golden Age Returns"

Mar.  3:  Ch. 22, PR, SA (32 sentences)

Mar.  10:  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"

                                         
Mar.  17:  Ch. 23, PR, SA (28 sentences)

Mar.  24:  Ch. 23, TR 1-12, "Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse"
                   GM 1-9, "Watching the Orator at Work"
 
Mar.  31:  Ch. 24, PR, SA (25 sentences)

Apr.  7:  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"

Apr.  14:  Ch. 25, PR, SA (32 sentences)

Apr.  21:  Easter -- no translation                     

Apr.  28:  Ch. 25, TR 1-12, "The Death of Laocoon...And Troy"

May   5:  Ch. 25, GM 1-8, "The Character of Catiline's Followers"

May  12:  Ch. 26, PR, SA (31 sentences)

May  19:  Ch. 26, TR 1-4, "The Nations of Gaul"
                   TR 5-6, "The Good Life"
                   GM 1-16,  "The Virtues of the Orator Cato"

May   26:  Memorial Day weekend -- no translation.

June   2:  Ch. 27, PR, SA (28 sentences)

June  9:  Ch. 27, TR 1, "Alley Cat"
                   TR 2, "Thanks a Lot, Tully"
                   TR 3-9, "An Uncle's Love for His Nephew..."

June  16:  Ch. 27  GM 1-10,  "Old Age is Not a Time for Despair"

June  23:  Ch. 28, PR, SA (27 sentences)

June  30:  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"
                   
July  23:  Ch. 29, PR, SA (29 sentences)

July  30:  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"

July.  7:  Ch. 30, PR, SA (29 sentences)

July  14:  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"

July  21:  Ch  30, GM 1-13,  "Pliny Writes to His Friends"

July  28:  Ch. 31, PR, SA (28 sentences)

Aug. 4:  Ch. 31, TR 1, "Give Me a Thousand Kisses"
                   TR 2, "Ringo"
                   TR 3-5, "Facetiae"
                   
Aug. 11:  Ch. 31  GM 1-14,  "Lucretia, Paragon of Virtue"

Aug. 18:  Ch. 32, PR, SA (33 sentences)

Aug. 25:  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"

Sep. 1:  Labor Day Weekend -- no translation

Sep.  8:  Ch. 33, PR, SA (24 sentences)

Sep. 15:  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!"
                  # N.B. There should be a period, not a comma, after "recEpisti."

Sep. 22:  Ch. 33, GM 1-10,  "The Helvetians Parley With Caesar

Sep.  29:  Ch. 34, PR, SA (31 sentences)

Oct.   6:  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"

Oct.  13:  Ch. 34, GM 1-7,  "Sallust's View of Human Nature"

Oct.  20:  Ch. 35, PR, SA (32 sentences)

Oct.  27:  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"

Nov  3:  Ch. 35, GM 1-23,  "A Conversation From Roman Comedy"

Nov  10:  Ch. 36, PR, SA (32 sentences)

Nov. 17:  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"

Nov.  24:  Ch. 36, GM 1-8,  "A Crisis in Roman Education"

Dec.  1:  Thanksgiving weekend -- no translation

Dec.  8:  Ch. 37, PR, SA (33 sentences)

Dec. 15:  Ch. 37, TR 1, "Thanks, But No Thanks"
                   TR 2-9, "Trimalchio's Epitaph"
                   TR 10-16, "Marcus Quinto Fratri S."

Dec.  22:  Ch. 37, GM 1-24,  "Horace Meets a Boorish Fellow"

Dec.  29:  Christmas holiday  -- no translation

2004

Jan.   5:  Ch. 38, PR, SA (31 sentences)

Jan.  12:  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"

Jan.  19:  Ch. 38, GM 1-7, "Cicero Speaks About the Nature of the Soul"

Jan.  26:  Ch. 39, PR, SA (30 sentences)

Feb.  2: Ch. 39, TR 1, "Promises, Promises!"
                 TR 2, "Paete, Non Dolet"
                 TR 3-12, "Hannibal and the Beginnings of the Second Punic War"

Feb.  9:  Ch. 39,  GM 1-10, "Cicero Evaluates Two Famous Roman Orators

Feb.  16:  Ch. 40,  PR, SA (33 sentences)

Feb.  23:  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"

Mar.   1:  Ch. 40,  GM 1-11,  "Hannibal and the Romans Fight to a Draw"