Syllabus

Day	Topic	Reading
1] M. 1/14	Salvete	salutationes valedictionesque epistolae vs litterae
W. 1/16	letters	Cicero 2.48 difficile dictu est quantopere conciliet animos comitas adfabilitasque sermonis (Off. 2.48) Cicero de Officiis 1.132-38 Julius Victor de epistolis    Demetrius de elocutione p. 172-177 (i.e. sections 223-235)  227· πλεῖστον δὲ ἐχέτω τὸ ἠθικὸν ἡ ἐπιστολή, ὣσπερ ὁ διάλογος; σκεδὸν γὰρ εἰκόνα ἓκαστος τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῆς γράφει τὴν ἑπιστολήν
F. 1/18	Cicero on Writing Letters	Hic Quaere
2] M. 1/21	Martin Luther King Day
W.   1/23	Cicero on Writing Letters	see above link SLACK!
F.   1/25	Seneca on Writing Letters	Epistolae Morales 41,1; 75, 1-1
3] M. 1/28	Pliny on Writing Letters	1.11 ET!  Exercitium Grammaticum Primum
W. 1/30	Erasmus	read here
F.   2/1	Erasmus	read here
4] M. 2/4	Epistolae Commendaticiae breves	Ad Fam 13.40, 13.59, 13.60
W. 2/6	Ad Fam. 13.6	Ad Familiares 13.6 auxilia: here Slack Exercise
F. 2/8	To Brutus	Ad Familiares 13.10
5] M. 2/11	Poetic Recommendations	Horace 1.9 To Tiberius auxilia here
W.   2/13	Poetic Recommendations	Horace 1.13 To Vinius
F.   2/15	Poetic Recommendation	Probatio Prima Slack III Due
6] M. 2/18	Invitation Poem & Slack	Philodemus Invitation to Piso Write an invitation to do something (specific) during your day “off”
W. 2/20	Invitations	Catullus
F.   2/22	Invitations	Horace 1.20 Here too
7] M. 2/25	Invitations	Horace Epistles 1.5
W. 2/27		See Syllabus: Pars Altera
F.   3/1		Ad Terentiam
		Spring Break
8] M. 3/11
W. 3/13
F.  3/15
9] M. 3/18
W.  3/20
F.  3/22	Probatio Secunda
10] M. 3/25
W. 3/27
F. 3/29
11] M. 4/1
W. 4/3
F. 4/5
12] M. 4/8
W. 4/10
F. 4/12
13] M. 4/15
W. 4/17
F. 4/19
14] M. 4/22		Easter Break
W. 4/24
F. 4/26
15] M. 4/29
W. 5/1
F. 5/3
16] M. 5/6
W. 5/7:		Alenda Lux