CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ekphrasis, Dactylic Hexameter, Roman Mythology
9 Nov 2016
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Lecture 16- moving from greece to rome and catullus. Moving from greece to roman mythology and literature. Some romans start to move away from mythological subjects: roman authors have read much greek literature and most of their work is informed by the knowledge of their greek predecessors. First time we move outside the realm of myth. How the romans start to broaden what literature is taking us out of the beginnings of. Approximately 84-54 bce: only about 30 years old when he died. Moving towards the end of the republican period in rome (before the emperors: before emperor augustus. Neoteric poets: new, funny, obscene, serious, experimenting, highly intelligent, all about doing new and poetically rebellious things, deliberately turning their backs on previous generations of poets but at the same time building off of them. Appears to have lived most of his adult life in rome in the presence of other poetic people.
