Commentary Project

Full details about the Commentary Project are available here.

Due Dates: Selection (March 14); Completion (April 2)

The Commentary is available at: iris.haverford.edu/martial10

Epigrams selected:

10.1-14: maiores
10:15-16: Carter
10.17: maiores
10:18-19: Carter
10.20: maiores
10.22: Michael Kriege
10.21: Marion
10.23: Josh Bayona
10.24–25: maiores
10.26: Rey George
10.27: Michael Kriege
10.28: Emily Aguilar
10.29: Allison
10.30: maiores
10.31: Emily Aguilar
10.32: Julia
10.33: Rey George
10.34: Michael Kriege
10.35: maiores
10.36 Michael Kriege
10.37–46: maiores
10.47-48: Dalton
10.49: Michael Kriege
10.50: Emily Schwartz
10.51–53: maiores
10.54: Allison
10.55: maiores
10.56: Emily Schwartz
10.57: Allison
10.58: Harriet
10.59 maiores
10.60: Allison
10.61: Emily Schwartz
10.62: Emily Aguilar
10.63-67: maiores
10.68 Alice
10.69: Allison
10.70: maiores
10.71: Harriet
10.72: maiores
10.73: Rey George
10.74-75: maiores
10.76: Emily Schwartz
10:77: Allison
10.78: Harriet
10.79: Josh Bayona
10.80: Rey George
10.81-82: Alexander Neuschotz
10.83: maiores
10.85: Alexander Neuschotz
10.86: Julia
10.87 Alice
10.89: Allison
10.90: Marion
10.92: Seth Levin
10.94 Alice
10.96: maiores
10.97: Marion
10.98: Julia
10.100: Marion
10.103: maiores
10.104: Seth Levin

Epigrams commented on by “maiores” were completed by students in a previous edition of this seminar and should be avoided (note that these commentary are not necessarily exemplary).

Guidance on Content and Style

In general, use as a baseline for your commentary the principals and style guideline for Dickinson College Commentaries (see below). You may, however, also include philological material appropriate to a scholarly commentary of the sort that we have been using this semester. Note that these are often productively compiled into a brief essay at the start of your notes unless your comment refers uniquely to a single lemma.

Resources

Bipontine Epigrammata Martialis Ad Usum Delphini v. 1; v. 2; v. 3
Prosopography of Martial (2019)
Tesserae: for find allusions
For researching individual words: Logeion & The Latin Library (n.b., not The Library of Latin texts!)
If you’d like to delve more into the theory and practice of the classical commentary, see Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a scholarly genre. C.S. Kraus and C.A. Stray, EdD. Oxford University Press (2016).