Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students will be able to:- Translate the set texts with fluency and a full awareness of nuance and style- Recognise the main features of Ovid's and Lucan's style- Recall in detail major events of the Trojan War, as narrated in Homer and other archaic sources such as the Epic Cycle, and significant events of the immediate aftermath, in particular the plot of Euripides' Hecuba- Identify allusions to these tales in the poetry of Ovid- Evaluate the significance of allusions to these tales in the poetry of Ovid

Indicative Module Content:

This module is language intensive, focused on Latin-to-English translation of unadapted passages of Ovid, with some additional reading from Lucan that should be pursued privately. Students should expect to read c.700 lines of Latin on this module.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)	17
Specified Learning Activities	34
Autonomous Student Learning	49
Total	100

Not applicable to this module.

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Essay: 2000 word essay. Students taking the module as part of a research degree programme may be offered an alternative to this assignment by agreement with the module co-ordinator.	Coursework (End of Trimester)	n/a	Standard conversion grade scale 40%	No	30
Class Test: 1 hour translation and commentary questions	Week 6	n/a	Standard conversion grade scale 40%	No	35
Class Test: 1 hour translation and commentary questions	Week 12	n/a	Standard conversion grade scale 40%	No	35

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Spring	No

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

Students will sit two mid-semester examinations, relating to the passages of text they have translated and discussed in classes in previous weeks. Feedback will be delivered in a follow-up class, in which they will review and discuss their answers

N.Hopkinson (ed.) Ovid Metamorphoses Book XIII. Cambridge 2000 (the so-called ‘green and yellow’ series). This is the assigned text, and should be available in the campus bookshop.

W.S.Anderson “Form Changed: Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” In A.J.Boyle (ed.) Roman Epic. 108-124. London 1993.
M.Davies The Epic Cycle. Bristol 1989.
O.S.Due Changing Forms: Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Copenhagen 1974.
J.Farrell “Dialogue of genres in Ovid’s ‘Lovesong of Polyphemus.’” AJPh 113 (1992) 235-268.
G.K.Galinsky Ovid’s Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1975.
P.R.Hardie (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge 2002.
S.E.Hinds Allusion and Intertext. Cambridge 1998. See esp. ch.4.
S.Mack Ovid. New Haven 1988.
B.Otis Ovid as an Epic Poet. Cambridge 1966 (2nd ed. 1970)
J.B.Solodow The World of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill 1988.
W.B.Stanford The Ulysses Theme. Oxford 1967. See esp. chs. 10 & 11.

Name	Role
Mr George Prekas	Tutor

Autumn
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12	Mon 11:00 - 11:50
Tutorial	Offering 1	Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12	Wed 12:00 - 12:50
Autumn