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a nearly invisible Cupid hovers over sleeping Psyche

Cupid and Psyche, © 1996 by Kinuko Craft

LAT 2020: Upper Latin
Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche (Metamorphoses 4.28.-6.23)

12:30-1:20 MWF
Eppler North 302

Instructor:

James M. Pfundstein, Ph.D.
Shatzel 222
phone: 419-372-8278
e-mail: jmpfund@bgsu.edu
office hours: Tues. 12:30-1:20, or by appointment
web-page: https://blogs.bgsu.edu/pfundblog/syllabi/
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Texts:
Krumpak, Hayes, & Nimis (edd.), Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche (Faenum Publishing, 2015) ISBN: 978-1940997094
A free PDF of the same text is available from the publisher's website here :
http://www.faenumpublishing.com/apuleius-cupid-and-psyche.html
A satisfactory Latin dictionary (see below for some electronic options)
A satisfactory Latin grammar (see below for some electronic options)
Online Resources:
The Perseus Project also has a vast amount of useful resources for the Latinist; in addition to hypertexts and translations (of Apuleius, and of many other Latin and Greek authors), see Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar, and a searchable edition of Lewis & Short, the best one-volume Latin dictionary.
But you can have an electronic version of Lewis and Short for your own use. It's part of the database of Diogenes, a freeware application by Peter Heslin for searching the TLG and PHI disks. If you don't know what those are, don't worry about it. The upshot is that you can use Diogenes as a standalone dictionary program, by far the best one out there (for Latin or for Greek: the complete dataset of LSJ is included as well).
https://d.iogen.es/d/download.html
Diogenes is not available for any mobile platform, but Heslin did create a handy version you can use via a web-browser.
https://d.iogen.es/web
Also mega-useful: Alpheios is a browser extension that can turn any plain-text web page into a Perseus page. The browser-extension only works on desktops/laptops, but there is a small selection of hyperlinked online texts available for reading on their site (not including Apuleius, heu).
https://alpheios.net
The Latin Library has free plain-text editions of Apuleius, (and a lot else besides).
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com
An online version of WORDS is still available on a dedicated website.
https://latin-words.com

There are some great free dictionary and grammar programs for iOS (e.g. Protagoras, Grammaticus, and Logeion), but these, unfortunately, don't seem to have crossed over to the Android marketplace yet.

Again for iOS/iPadOS: Bellerophon is a reading program by Adrian Packel that is essentially the Perseus Project on your mobile device: texts, translations, hyperlinked parsing and dictionary functions.
https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/adrian-packel/id517244370
In case you're thinking, "I wish I could review that stuff in Wheelock"...
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Ilaria_Marchesi/text/list_exercises.htm

There's a Latin parser for Android devices by Water Shandruk. Not being an Android user, I have no idea how good it is, but here's the link.
https://download.cnet.com/latin-parser/3000-20414_4-75945591.html
There are increasing numbers of for-pay options for mobile platforms (iOS and Android). I'm not inclined to link to these, but if you want to have a conversation about the ups and downs of them, feel free to raise the question in or out of class.

Grading:

Participation
 
 30%

Midterms
Translation and parsing
(Monday, February 12; Friday, March 22)

 		20% (each)

Final Exam
Thursday April 25
11:30 AM-2:00 PM

 		30%

THE FINE PRINT:
No makeups given due to absence without prior arrangement with the instructor.
No one can pass the course without taking and passing the final examination.
No incompletes issued except for pressing reasons and by prior arrangement with the instructor.
 “Mus syllaba est. Syllaba autem caseum non rodit.  Mus, ergo, caseum non rodit."--Seneca
The instructor reserves the right to recognize significant improvement or decline in student performance when awarding final grades.
The maximum amount of extra credit which may count towards the final grade = 5% of the total course points.
The syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor; changes will be announced in class and posted on-line.


SCHEDULE
SEPTIMANA
 		LUNAE DIES
 		MERCURII DIES
 		VENERIS DIES
I
Jan. 8, 10, 12
 		Exordium
 		Metamorphoses 4.28
 		Metamorphoses 4.29
II
----, Jan. 17, 19
 		Dies MLK jr.
(nullae scholae)
 		Metamorphoses 4.30 Metamorphoses 4.31
III
Jan. 22, 24, 26
 		Metamorphoses 4.32 Metamorphoses 4.33 Metamorphoses 4.34
IV
Jan. 29, 31, Feb. 2
 		Metamorphoses 4.35 Metamorphoses 5.1-2 Metamorphoses 5.3-4
V
Feb. 5, 7, 9
 		Metamorphoses 5.5-6 Metamorphoses 5.7-8 Metamorphoses 5.9
VI
Feb. 12, 14, 16
 		Examen Primum
Metamorphoses 5.10-11
 		Metamorphoses  5.12-13
VII
Feb. 19, 21, 23
 		Metamorphoses 5.14 Metamorphoses 5.15-16 Metamorphoses 5.17-18
VIII
Feb. 26, 28, March 1
 		Metamorphoses 5.19-20 Metamorphoses 5.21-22 Metamorphoses 5.23

March 2-10
Dies Vernalis Frangendi
IX.
March 11, 13, 15
 		Metamorphoses 5.24-25 Metamorphoses 5.26-27 Metamorphoses 5.28-29
X
March 18, 20, 22
 		Metamorphoses 5.30-31 Examen Secundum
Metamorphoses 6.1-2
XI
March 25, 27, 29
 		Metamorphoses 6.3-4 Metamorphoses 6.5-6 Metamorphoses 6.7-8
XII
April 1, 3, 5
 		Metamorphoses 6.9-10 Metamorphoses 6.11-12 Metamorphoses 6.13-14
XIII
April 8, 10, 12
 		Defectio Solis
(nullae scholae)
 Metamorphoses 6.15-16 Metamorphoses 6.17-18
XIV
April 15, 17, 19
 		Metamorphoses 6.19-20 Metamorphoses 6.21-22 Metamorphoses 6.23

ULTIMA
April 22-26
Examen Ultimum
Thursday, April 25, 11:30 AM-2:00PM



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