CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Poetry Archive, Catullus, Lesbia
1 Feb 2013
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Imitatio: imitation, uaratio: variation, style appropriate for work that is being dealt with, primary elements. Secondary elements (commonplaces, or topoi: lit. places) History important because it had chance for events of past to be useful for new. Imitation by itself isn"t enough, content with what has already been discovered by others generations, to learn from past mistakes, analysis, blah blah blah. In poems, made references to specific myths or specific persons/regions of the world. Neoteroi: younger men, name given by cicero. Catullus from verona italy, especially known for his love poems to lesbia, who was clodia, wife of metellus, consul in 60 bce, first example of poetry addressed to a single woman. Look at what is narrated in the poetry. Construction of native genre of historical writing. Golden age: late republic to early empire, 100 bce-14 ad. Autocracy because there is a strict control by emperor over what is written.
