Worlds Texts
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complete listing of Latin passages on the site
| Funerary Inscription: Septimia Stratonice | Silius Italicus, Punica VI.415-451; 497-520 submitted by John Jacobs, Loyola University Maryland |
| Funerary Inscription: Nothi Coniunx | M. Tullius Cicero, De Oratore
III.12.45: Laelia, submitted by Anne Leen, Furman University |
| Funerary Inscriptions: Julia Secunda and Cornelia Tyche | C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Panegyricus 84: Trajan's sister Marciana |
| Funerary Inscription:
Aelia Sabina submitted by Barbara McManus, The College of New Rochelle |
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales XV.63-4: Paulina submitted by Elizabeth Gloyn, Rutgers University |
| Q. Horatius Flaccus,
Carmina
I.11: Leuconoe submitted by Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, De Bello
Civili V.762-790: Cornelia submitted by Lisa Sannicandro, Università degli Studi di Padova |
| Sextus Propertius, Elegiae III.23: the lost love
tablets submitted by Anne Leen's Intermediate Latin class, Furman University |
Conference
Papers
| The Classical Association of the
Atlantic States & Classical Association of New Jersey Westin Hotel, Princeton, New Jersey Panel E: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:30-10:30 a.m. |
| Digital Texts, Online Collaboration
and the Latin Classroom: Companion to the Worlds of Roman
Women Presider and Moderator (Panel Handout): Ann R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle, CAAS President) Sacris Rite Paratis: Women's Responsibilities in Household Rituals Judith L. Sebesta (University of South Dakota) An Illuminated Text/Commentary to Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses Donald Connor (Trinity School) Contributing to Companion: The Wedding of Scholarship and Pedagogy Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University) Assessing Companion: From Undergraduate to High School Teacher Elizabeth McCauley (Saint Joseph's University; Merion Mercy Academy) |
Instruction
Materials
Additional colleague
contributions may be found at Activities and
Syllabi & Lessons
Sarah Hull, CUNY Hunter Graduate Student (New York City)
Classroom Lesson Plan on Roman Marriage. This unit lesson plan and accompanying classroom activity is intended to introduce students from middle-school to high school to aspects of Roman Marriage. An accompanying PowerPoint presentation is available on CD upon request.
Maria S. Marsilio, Saint Joseph's University
(Philadelphia)
Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World,
accompanying bibliography: Spring 2008.
A study of the ancient Greek and Roman cultural constructions of gender
through reading in English legal, philosophical, medical, historical,
religious, and literary works.
Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle
(NY)
Tarpeia in Livy and the Roman Forum. This activity
connects text interpretation with the exploration of associated ancient sites
through an assignment that links Companion to the
Worlds of Roman Women and
VRoma.
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle
(NY)
Funerary
Inscription Project. In this activity students explore the genre of
epigraphy in search of Roman women, who are represented on funerary monuments
through sculpture and writing that is not exclusively male and elite. Model student
projects are appended to the instructions.
Stacie Raucci, Union College (NY)
“Dido in Text and Performance.” This activity, intended for a Latin class but useful as well in courses in translation, connects textual interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid IV.630-662 with the reception of Vergil’s Queen Dido in various media.
Stacie Raucci, Union College (NY)
Sex and Gender in
Antiquity: Fall 2008. Syllabus for a course that examines
representations of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, using
literature, artwork, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct definitions of
the masculine and feminine. The course also includes an ethics
component.
John H. Starks Jr, Binghamton University
(NY)
De
vitis mulierum Romanarum: Fall 2008. Syllabus for an Intermediate
Latin course with reading and viewing assignments on Companion.