CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 30270)

September 14: Terence, The Brothers

I: Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)
• Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence)

II. Important changes to syllabus and assignments, Sept. 21-23

21 Catullus, Selected Poems in Course Packet, and poem 63, online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0006:poem=63:line=1
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book 4, verses 1037-1287, online at
http://www.perseus.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0131&layout=&loc=4.1057
23 Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline (in course packet)

III. Terence, The Brothers

A. The playwright: Publius Terentius Afer, c. 190-159 BCE

B. The play

• In performance by The Terence Project of Vassar College
  (UG Audiovisual library, VIDCASS 10,434)
• How is this play like and unlike Plautus' Double Bind?
• Demea and Micio have opposite views about education. Who do you think is right? Who would a Roman of Terence' s day think is right?

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