CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elegiac Couplet, Qasr Ibrim, Augustan Poetry
24 Feb 2016
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>lucretius talks about war and the creation of the world. Epic poetry meant to be shared in the community as a super example. >all elegiac poets introduce mythological characters as a parallel to themselves. Elegiac couplet: hexameter + pentameter (6 foot plus 4 foot and one half = 5) If you won"t have hexameter throughout the whole piece, then it"s not an epic. Cupid laughed, it said and he stole away a foot. We only have 4 authors who work this kind of poetry. Gallus (70-26ce), tibullus (55-19ce), propertius (48-2ce), ovid (43-17ce) All 4 lived under the augustan rule. >roman elegy is the only genre to only happen during augustan rule. These poets seem to have a lot of freedom to write what they want. Ovid is the only to be blamed for one poem and is banished from rome for one erotic piece. Despite this, there aren"t any criticisms of this poetry being published in rome.
