課程資訊
課程名稱
 拉丁文四上
Latin (Ⅳ) (1) 
開課學期
 102-1 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
 彭泰迪 
課號
 FL4158 
課程識別碼
 102 42561 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 全年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期五6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
  
備註
 總人數上限：30人 
  
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課程概述

Course Description:
A close reading of the Latin text of the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius. Extracts will be read from Books I, II, IV, & V. Students will receive a course package including the selections, a commentary and full vocabulary. The course will include both the translation and interpretation of the following: 1. The Theory of Atoms. 2. Atoms and Senses. 3. A Theory of Evolution..
Students will be expected to be familiar with the assigned readings and secondary literature, some of which is listed in the enclosed shortened bibliography.
 

課程目標
 Course Objectives
To push your Latin translation skills to an advanced level.
1. To better understand the dactylic hexameter and other elements of Latin poetry.
2. To better understand Lucretius’ place in both Roman and English Literature.
3. To learn more about the culture and history of the late Roman Republic.
4. To examine Epicureanism and its influence on the modern world.
 
課程要求
 Requirements:
Midterm Exam, Final Exam, Regular Homework Assignments To be Handed in and Attendance.
 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
  
指定閱讀
 Assigned Readings:
1. Dalzell, A. (1996) The Criticism of Didactic Poetry: Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid. Toronto and London
2. Gale, M.R. (2007) Oxford Readings In Classical Studies: Lucretius. Oxford.
3. Gillespie,S. & Hardie,P. (eds.)(2008). The Cambridge Companion To Lucretius. Cambridge and New York.
 
參考書目
 References:
1. Amis, E. (1982) ‘Lucretius’ Venus and Stoic Zeus’, Hermes 110: 458-470.
2. Bailey, C. (1947)Lucretius: De Rerum Natura. Edited, with Prologomena, Critical Apparatus, Translation and Commentary (3 vols.). Oxford.
3. Beard, M.,North,J. and Price,S. (1998) Religions In Rome, vol. !: A History. Cambridge.
4. Beye, C.R. (1963) ‘Lucretius and Progress’, Classical Journal 58: 160-169.
5. Blickman, D.R. (1989) ‘Lucretius, Epicurus, and prehistory’ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 92:157-91.
6. Clausen,W. (1987) Virgil’s Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry (Sather Classical Lectures 51) Berkeley, Los Angeles and London.
7. Dyson, J.t. (1996) ‘Dido the Epicurean’, Classical Antiquity 15: 203-21.
8. Fowler, P.G. (1997) ‘Lucretian conclusions’, in Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature, ed. D. H. Roberts, F.M. Dunn and D. Fowler.
9.Furley, D.J. (1978) ‘Lucretius the Epicurean, on the history of man’ in Gigon (1978), 1-27, reprinted in Furley (1989), 206-22.
10. Gale, M. (1994a) Myth and Poetry in Lucretius. Cambridge.
11.Giesecke, A. (2000) Atoms, Ataraxy, and Allusion: Cross-Generic Imitation of De Rerum Natura in Early Augustan Poetry. Hildesheim, Zurich and New York.
12. Haskell, Y. and Hardie, P. (eds.) (1999) Poets and Teachers: Latin Didactic Poetry and the Didactic Authority of the Latin Poet from the Renaissance to the Present. Bari.
13. Hinds, S.E. (1987) ‘ Language and Breaking Point: Lucretius !. 452,Classical Quarterly 37: 450-3.
14. Johnson, W.R. (2000) Lucretius and the Modern World. London.
15. Jones, H. (1989) The Epicurean Tradition. London, reprented 1992.
16. Masson, J. (1907-9) Lucretius: Epicurean and Poet (2 vols.) London.
17. Mitsis, P. (1988) Epicurus’ Ethical Theory: the Pleasures of Invulnerability. Ithaca and London.
18. Wardy, r. (1996) ‘Atomism’, in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edn. Oxford.
19. West, D. (1969) The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius. Bristol.
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
  
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
 Midterm Exam  
30% 
  
2. 
 Final Exam 
30% 
  
3. 
 Homework 
30% 
  
4. 
 Attendance and Participation 
10% 
  
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 9/13  Atoms and Void 
第2週
 9/20  The Movement of Atoms: Types and Speed of Atomic Movement 
第3週
 9/27  The Invisibility of Atomic Movement. 
第4週
 10/04  The Nature of Atoms: Variety in the Natural World. 
第5週
 10/11  Atomic Variety and Its Effect; atoms and how things change. 
第6週
 10/18  Atoms and The Senses: The Atom of Vision 
第7週
 10/25  Optical Illusions and Dreams. 
第8週
 11/01  The Other Senses: Sound and Hearing, Taste and Smell. 
第9週
 11/08  Mid-term exam 
第10週
 11/15  A Theory of Evolution. 
第11週
 11/22  Matter and Life: The Origin and our World. 
第12週
 11/29  The Origin of Life and The Origin of Our World 
第13週
 12/06  The Struggle For Survival 
第14週
 12/13  Primitive Man: Life Then and Now. 
第15週
 12/20  The Growth of Civilisation: Language. 
第16週
 12/27  Firs and Family Life. 
第17週
 1/03  Religious Belief, Metals, Fighting-Techniques and Agriculture. 
第18週
   Final Exam